California Bar Exam Results

56.1% of applicants passed the July 2007 California bar exam. These applicants will be allowed to practice law in California while the 43.9% who failed will not.

Rather then forbidding these 43.9% from practicing law California should allow them to practice so long as they clearly tell their clients that they failed the bar exam. This way the legal marketplace, rather than the government of California, would judge whether passing the bar exam is relevant to legal skills. Of course this will never happen as the purpose of state bar exams is to reduce the supply of lawyers and so raise the income of the lawyers who have already passed the bar.