The pass rate for the February 2019 Missouri bar exam continued a downward trend, dropping a percentage point from the prior year to 62.4 percent. Last year, the overall pass rate was 63.4 percent, compared to 74.3 percent in 2017, ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court says some prospective lawyers who can’t take the bar examination in Washington, D.C., during the government shutdown can apply for the exam in Missouri.

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The July pass rate for the Missouri Bar exam has declined, diverging from a higher-than-usual pass rate last summer.

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A nearly 3-point drop in national bar exam scores this year has set law school officials abuzz — including in Missouri, which saw a similar drop in state scores.

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Caranchini v. Board of Law Examiners (MLW No. 67116/Case No. WD77178 – 16 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Mitchell, J.)

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With close to 30 percent of states currently offering the same bar exam and the idea of a diploma privilege system growing, the death knell for the traditional bar exam is growing louder.

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The number of people taking and passing the Missouri bar is up 10 percent from 2010.

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Fewer people may be taking the Missouri bar but more are passing it, as reflected by a significant increase in bar passage rates in the past decade. In fact, Missouri now has the third-highest bar exam passage rate in the nation.

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Missouri schools are graduating more JDs than ever, but fewer people are taking the state’s bar exam. That should alleviate some concern in the legal profession that lawyers will flood Missouri’s market and make it harder for new lawyers to ...

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By 2011, Missouri law students may be among the first in the country to take the Uniform Bar Examination, a test whose scores could cinch them law licenses in other states. But how useful is a uniform exam if only ...

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The Missouri Board of Law Examiners released figures on Wednesday for the smallest group of February bar exam takers in recent memory. However, the percentage of successful takers remained on par with results from previous February tests. In total, 205 of the 269 people who took the test passed, a rate of 76 percent. In February 2008, about 74 percent of takers passed. Kellie Early (pictured), executive director of the Missouri Board of Law Examiners, says results of February’s bar exams are similar to those of past years.

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