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A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar... is a 2007 independent film about lawyers, law school, the California Bar exam, and the obsession America has with its legal system. The film has garnered many positive reviews including coverage from The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, Premiere.com and on nationally syndicated television show At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper.
The school was founded in 1979. It offers an affordable and accessible option to those looking to study the law, earn a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and qualify to sit for the California Bar Exam. Western Sierra Law School offers a part-time, evening, 4 year J.D. program that is designed to accommodate working professionals.
In 2023, the overall bar examination passage rate for the law school’s first-time examination takers was 82.42%. The Ultimate Bar Pass Rate, which the ABA defines as the passage rate for graduates who sat for bar examinations within two years of graduating, was 97.87% for the class of 2021. [4]
A California state bar rule allows students to apply to law school through completing the College Board’s College-Level Examination Program, the district attorney’s office said in a news release.
The pass rate for Western State alumni taking the California bar exam for the first time in July 2023 was 60%, the lowest of 18 California ABA law schools. [25] The Ultimate Bar Pass Rate, which the ABA defines as the pass rate for graduates who sat for a bar exam within two years of graduating, was 77% for the Class of 2020, [4] but just 68.42 ...
In order to evaluate the "qualitative soundness of a law school's program of legal education," the State Bar of California requires all California-Accredited Law schools to provide cumulative bar passage rates for the previous five years. For 2018-2022, SJCL's cumulative five-year bar pass rate was 76.3%. [8]
The school is not accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) due to being an online-only institution and the failure to meet the ABA 75% bar passage within two years of earning a diploma. [9] As a result, students are generally not permitted to take the bar exam outside of California [8] immediately after graduation. Currently 23 states ...
Kim Kardashian said in an Instagram post that she passed California's "baby bar" exam, coming one step closer to becoming a lawyer.