bar exam

Apr 17, 2019

February bar-passage rate down slightly

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 […]

Jan 24, 2019

Missouri bar exam opened to some during DC shutdown

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.

Sep 12, 2018

Bar-passer rate declines

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

Nov 24, 2014

Low bar: A drop in bar scores raises concern

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.

Nov 13, 2014

Attorneys : Reinstatement – Bar Exam – Failure To Pass

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

Mar 21, 2014

Commentary: ‘Diploma privilege’ may be death knell for bar exam

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.

Sep 23, 2013

Bar Passers: July bar exam numbers continue to climb

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

Feb 6, 2011

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.

Feb 6, 2011

The puzzling Bar exam gap

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 […]

Nov 22, 2009

The incredible portable bar exam

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 […]

Apr 22, 2009

Fewer take bar exam

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), [...]

Feb 16, 2009

Numbers down for February bar exam

This month’s bar exam will have the fewest number of takers in at least nine years. Two hundred and ninety-nine people will take the exam on Feb. 24 and 25, […]