Students from the University’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center garnered the highest passage rate of all students in the state on the Louisiana Bar Exam, according to a Friday news release.
Of the 164 LSU Law Students who took the bar exam in July 2011, 142 passed the exam, according to the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Committee on Bar Admissions. That means 86.5 percent of students passed, while 9.2 percent conditioned the exam and 4.3 percent failed.
The Louisiana Bar Exam stipulates that applicants must pass a specific group of seven out of nine sections of the exam in order to pass, including four out of five “code