As an organization and a board, we favor it. It seems like a reasonable standard to us. Law students have the right to know, ‘What are my chances [of passing the bar] when looking at a particular school?’ We think it’s necessary for the protection of the public, and it doesn’t prevent a graduate from sitting for the bar exam more times than is permitted in this two-year period.
— Judith Gundersen, president of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, commenting on a proposal before the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates that would require at least 75 percent of a law school’s students to pass the bar exam within two years of graduation or risk losing their accreditation.
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