Following years of deliberation, the panel overhauling the American Bar Association’s law school accreditation standards is near a decision about whether to tighten the rules governing rates of bar-examination passage by graduates.
The ABA’s Standards Review Committee will meet Friday and Saturday to discuss a range of proposals, none of which has proven as controversial as the bar-exam passage standard. Now the committee’s chairman, Saint Louis University School of Law professor Jeffrey Lewis, believes the group will finally reach a consensus.
