Chuck Bryant

Yeah, it's definitely a strange argument.

Other people say that, you know, just part of that disparity is, you know, the cost associated with law school and to be a successful candidate.

And like we said, the privilege that it takes to maybe be able to pay for that and then take off months work and and pay for the very best preparatory courses.

You know, that's it's just sort of all in the big soup of privilege, you know.

Right.

I saw that black and Hispanic students who take the bar exam are 50 percent likelier to work during their bar prep period.

Yeah.

Than a white student.

Like it's just logistically speaking, racially speaking, it's just much likelier that a white test taker is going to be able to not work and just dedicate their time to prepping for the bar.

Yeah.

I mean, that alone explains a lot of it because the bar exam is essentially like it's a standardized test where you memorize essentially year one law school stuff.

Yeah.

I mean, that's one of the other critiques is that, you know, it's a memorization test.

And there have been plenty of studies that show that it doesn't necessarily isn't a marker toward your future performance as an attorney or you're like you're how successful you may be.

Right.

There was a study in 2024 from Nevada.

that compared scores on the MBE and other components of their test of, I think, a little more than 500 new attorneys and how they were basically rated, how affected they were by their peers and their supervisors and judges.

And they did find a small positive relationship between some of the ratings, some parts of the bar.

But at the end of the day, overall, they said it was minimally predictive of career success.

and the Nevada performance test was negligibly related to success.