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New Study Shows Law Students Who Fail the Bar Fall Behind

published November 01, 2010

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Jane Yakowitz is the author of the paper, entitled ''Marooned: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduates Who Fail The Bar Exam.'' Yakowitz is the director of Project SEAPHE (The Scale and Effects of Admissions Preferences In Higher Education), which aggregated data from various sources, including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Law School Admissions Council, the National Association for Law Placement and the State Bar of California from the past forty years.

New Study Shows Law Students Who Fail the Bar Fall Behind


Yakowitz claims that there has been a lacking in terms of research about the sect of law students that do not pass the bar. She accredits the lack of research to several factors. For one, she says, students who failed the bar exam are not easy to track, as they are less likely to complete alumni surveys. Additionally, says Yakowitz, there isn’t much incentive for the state bar association to keep track of such students.

In the paper, Yakowitz says ''There are probably on the order of 150,000 law school graduates in the United States who have taken but never passed a bar exam; this amounts to one in 10 JDs and the risk falls disparately on black, Hispanic, and Asian law school graduates.''

Among the life difficulties these graduates might experience are issues with job stability, earnings, and even marriage.
The paper makes the claim that, ''Law schools owe it to their most at-risk prospective students to provide candid information about the probability and costs of failing the bar examination.''

The median salaries for students who do not pass the bar and are under 30 are actually less than those of college graduates, including those who did not attend law school. It goes without saying that the median salary of this population fell under the median salary of those who passed the bar.

While the paper shows that these students eventually go on to make more than regular college grads (as far as the median salary goes), they never quite make as much as lawyers do.

published November 01, 2010

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