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Will California Be The Next State to Switch To The UBE?

By Marino Legal Academy  
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Now that New York has just made the decision to switch its bar exam format to the UBE (Uniform Bar Exam) starting in July 2016, there has been the expectation that many other states will soon follow. So it should come as no surprise that many academics in California are already discussing whether California should or will switch to the UBE as well.

California currently has a very low bar pass rate (In 2014, the California bar exam was administered to just over 13,000 people, only 47% of them passed) and along with New York, is usually regarded as one of the nation’s toughest bar exams.

In a recent op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California-Irvine School of Law, writes that he is now fully supportive of California’s proposed change over to the UBE format.

Chemerinsky claims that state specific bar exams are “bad for clients who end up having fewer choices, as well as for lawyers who value geographic mobility. And because the legal market isn’t exactly robust at the moment, it seems rather cruel to make lawyers restrict their job searches to the states in which they’ve passed the bar exam.”
You can read Chemerinsky’s full op-ed here

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0511-chemerinsky-standard-bar-exam-20150511-story.html

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