Individuals who take alternative pathways to the legal profession have drastically lower bar
passage rates compared to those who earn a law degree from an American Bar Association-
accredited law school, according to recently published research conducted by a group of legal
educators from four universities.

“The data suggests that people trying to enter the legal profession using those alternative
pathways have been less likely to pass the bar exam, less likely to find employment at law firms,
and more likely to later be professionally disciplined,” said University of Chicago Law School Dean
Adam Chilton, who co-wrote the paper, entitled Alternative Educational Pathways into the Legal
Profession, with Giulia Cusenza, a post-doctoral fellow at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
Italy; Lorenzo Luisetto, assistant professor of law at Cleveland State University College of Law; and
Kyle Rozema, professor of law at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

The paper was published this month by the Law School's Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics. 

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