Legal Profession
Factors Affecting Bar Passage Among Law Students: The REAL Connection between Race and Bar Passage
Among lawyers, perhaps no test is debated as often as the bar examination. Race is a large part of the debate, as Black law grads are more likely to struggle on the bar exam than their white counterparts. “Learned” professors have killed many forests in their repeated attempts to argue that law […]
Where are the Black Lawyers?
There are many well-known Black lawyers. Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker are just a few. But these success stories hide a sobering fact: the number of Black lawyers is quite small. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2017, there were just over 1.1 million attorneys in America. Of these, […]
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