Yale Law
Stanford Law and Yale Law Grads Produce Highest First-Time Bar Pass Rates
Reuters: “Stanford Law School posted the highest bar exam pass rate of any U.S. school in 2025, new data from the American Bar Association shows, in a year when exam results improved nationwide.
All but one of the Bay Area school’s 176 graduates who took the attorney licensing exam for the first time last year passed—resulting in a pass rate of 99.43%. Yale Law School had the second-highest rate at 98.54%, followed closely by Duke Law School at 98.23%.
Harvard Law School and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law rounded out the top five with pass rates of 97.90% and 97.75%, respectively.
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University of Kentucky
District Judge Named Dean of the University of Kentucky’s Rosenberg College of Law
Kentucky Law: “University of Kentucky Provost Robert S. DiPaola has named Greg Van Tatenhove as the new dean of the J. David Rosenberg College of Law, pending Board of Trustees approval.
Van Tatenhove, a 1989 alumnus of the college, is currently serving as district judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, a role he has held since his confirmation by the U.S. Senate in December 2005. In that time, he served as chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management and a member of the Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Group.
He currently serves as an adjunct instructor for the Rosenberg College of Law, teaching “Crime and Punishment: Sentencing Policy and Procedure,” and as a judge and lecturer in the Trial Advocacy Program for Assistant United States Attorneys for the National Advocacy Center.
Prior to his appointment as district judge, Van Tatenhove served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2001 to 2006. In that capacity, he was a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and chair of the Budget Subcommittee.”
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DOJ Will Begin Hiring Prospectors Directly Out of Law School
ABA Journal: “After mass departures at U.S. attorneys’ offices, the U.S. Department of Justice is waiving a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to have at least one year of experience practicing law.
U.S. attorneys’ offices throughout the country previously adopted their own rules mandating at least three years of legal practice, rather than the nationwide baseline threshold of one year. But this month, federal districts, such as Minnesota and southern Florida, introduced reduced standards to fill slots left empty, according to a story by Bloomberg Law.”
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