22
Mar
2024
The Washington State bar exam requirement is an exclusionary burden that disproportionately affects Black law students.
So the Washington Supreme Court commissioned a study that found that the requirement of the bar exam is an exclusionary burden that disproportionately affects black law students and recommended allowing an alternative pathway to completing a law degree that requires 500 hours of apprenticeship and three additional courses. This isn't lowering standards. It's adjusting them, and no law schools are required to even do anything. It's creating an alternative. Yeah.