The principal attorney to Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye on Friday floated the idea of allowing some law school graduates who failed past bar exams to become fully licensed lawyers without attempting to pass the test again if they complete a two-year supervised practice program.
During an online meeting of the state bar’s provisional licensing working group, Neil Gupta suggested the alternative path to licensure could be opened to law school graduates who scored between 1390 and 1439 on past exams. Those previously failing scores would now be high enough to pass the test after the state Supreme Court in July permanently lowered the cut, or passing, score from 1440 to 1390.
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