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Apprentice program seeks to fix Arizona's 'legal desert' by boosting those who narrowly failed bar exam
(www.tucsonsentinel.com)
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You are completely and totally incorrect:
Arizona had the highest bar exam requirements in the Nation. And is now on par with 18 other states. The cutoff for this program is 10 points under passing - so 260. Equivalent to New Mexico.
The problem is that there is literally lower bars in bordering states - and they go there instead. Sure, we could just dismiss them as flunkies, but I doubt that a score of 260-270 indicates that they're "incapable".