The Virginia Board of Bar Examiners has posted the results for the July 2010 Bar Exam.
Of the candidates who sat for the exam this past summer in Roanoke, 1,139 received a passing score, for a pass rate of 75.2%. The VBBE website also provides pass rates for each Virginia law school.
Bar passers will be sworn in during a ceremony held Nov. 3 at the Richmond Convention Center. The names of the newest Virginia-licensed attorneys will also appear in an upcoming issue of Virginia Lawyers Weekly.
The next Virginia Bar Exam will be held in Norfolk on Feb. 22 & 23, 2011.
Congratulations to the new Virginia lawyers!
Here are the law schools’ data:
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Overall
Percentage |
First-time Takers
Percentage |
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All Applicants
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75.2%
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79.8%
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Virginia Law Schools
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Appalachian School of Law
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55.9%
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65.4%
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College of William and Mary
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89.7%
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92.6%
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George Mason University
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83.2%
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85.3%
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Liberty University
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77.3%
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73.7%
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Regent University
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72.6%
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85.7%
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University of Richmond
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80.7%
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83.5%
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University of Virginia
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89.8%
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90.6%
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Washington and Lee University
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73.3%
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72.7%
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Sally Moore // Oct 21, 2010 at 11:35 am
Whoa . . . what happened at W&L this year?
2 Atchuthan Sriskandarajah // Oct 21, 2010 at 6:17 pm
How many of them have jobs lined up?