Bloomberg Business suggests that the brighter students have decided to apply to other parts of the jobs market rather than a rather stricken legal sector. This has fed through to the quality coming onto law school courses. The article says: 'Law schools are seeing enrollments plummet and have tried to keep their campuses alive by admitting students with worse credentials.'

Waiting for September

For its part, Fortune is waiting to see if the July 2015 results show a weakness similar to the exams that were taken in July 2014. Fortune says: 'This year’s bar exam results, due out in September, will help determine if the poor scores from last year’s test were a fluke or part of a larger, downward trend.'

Source: Fortune