Is the Bar Exam Necessary? Is it Useful?

Is the bar exam a good way of protecting those who need competent legal advice? Does it keep the right people out of the legal profession, and let the right people in? >>>

Bar Exam, the Standard to Become a Lawyer, Comes Under Fire (NY Times)

For decades, law school graduates have endured a stressful rite of passage, spending the first 10 weeks after classes end taking cram courses in the arcane details of the law before sitting down for the grueling, dayslong bar exam. Those who do not pass cannot practice law, at least in nearly all the states and the District of Columbia that consider the exam the professional standard.

But that standard, so long unquestioned, is facing a new round of scrutiny — not just from the test takers but from law school deans and some state legal establishments…..

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