Chuck Bryant

They got scores ranging from 26 to 52 percent.

So nobody would have passed that bar.

And the lawyers who have been practicing longest did the worst out of all of them.

And then one general criticism of the bar exam too, in addition to everything else we've just talked about, is that it doesn't in any real way kind of jibe with what these lawyers are going to do in the legal profession.

Right.

It's general questions about law generally in the United States.

Again, it's essentially the stuff you learn in your first year at law school because the next two years you start to get into your specialization.

And it's a lot of memory and memorization and a lot of lawyering after you graduate and go through the bar and become an attorney is open book research to figure out what law applies.

The bar exam is closed book rapid fire testing.

So they're like, this is not like even putting away everything else, all the other arguments at its base.

It's kind of a flawed test to start with.

Yeah, for sure.

And because of that, there are a lot of jurisdictions that have long had workarounds and alternatives, and there are changes on the horizon for the bar itself.

Wisconsin, it's the only state, I guess only jurisdiction, that never stopped

saying, hey, you went to law school and you can practice law in this state.

You don't have to take the bar here, which is pretty cool.

I think you have to graduate from one of the state's two law schools there, and they call it diploma privilege.

I think in the past couple of decades, New Hampshire has followed suit a little bit.

And if you graduate with honors from University of New Hampshire Law School and you participate in court simulations and have practical experience, then you can be admitted to practice law without the bar.

Yeah.