The Handling Director’s Workplace of the American Bar Association Area of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar launched the current set of bar pass information last month for ABA-approved law schools revealing nationwide supreme and novice portion pass rates based upon race, ethnic culture and gender, and it exposed that Black test-takers are still passing at a much lower rate as compared to whites and other ethnic backgrounds.
Racial imbalances continue to prevail in bar passage rates, with this previous year’s novice pass rates for white test-takers 26% greater than Black test-takers– even worse than 2021 outcomes, according to an AccessLex Institute representative and ABA 2023 Bar Passage Survey (BPQ) Aggregate Data