COUNTYWIDE : Law Students Score High on State Bar

Final results from the State Bar examination brought welcome news to the Ventura College of Law this week. Of those students taking the test for the first time, more than 76% passed, compared with a statewide average of 51%.

“It’s nice to have such good news,” said William Fischbach, dean of the Ventura and Santa Barbara colleges of law. “This was a very good year.”

The Ventura College of Law offers its courses at night, Fischbach said. The average student completes the course work in three to four years and can take the bar in winter or summer. With 10 of 13 students earning the right to call themselves attorneys, last winter’s pass rate was much higher than the college’s average of 56%, he said.