TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Oct 9, 2017

The passage rate for candidates who took the July Tennessee bar exam increased by 4.55 percentage points from the same exam last year. Overall 67.68 percent – or 467 – of the applicants passed the exam. Among first time takers, the passage rate was 78.52 percent, also up from last year. Among Tennessee law schools, Vanderbilt University Law School grads passed at the highest rate – 97.06 percent – followed by Belmont University Law School at 87.32 percent. The Board of Law Examiners has more detailed results from all Tennessee law schools.