{"id":95503,"date":"2025-10-28T03:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=95503"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:06:13","slug":"toledo-law-ranks-second-in-ohio-for-bar-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_28_2025\/toledo-law-ranks-second-in-ohio-for-bar-passage","title":{"rendered":"Toledo Law Ranks Second in Ohio for Bar Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Toledo College of Law most recent alumni excelled at the Ohio bar examination in July.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-six percent of graduates passed the test on the first try, a six-year high that surpasses the state average of 80%. Toledo Law ranks second among the state\u2019s nine law schools in its first-time passage rate, trailing only Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_95504\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95504\" class=\"wp-image-95504\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LAW-MARKETING-SIDE-03032023-1345.jpg\" alt=\"Marketing stock photo of UToledo College of Law students engaged in a group study session.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LAW-MARKETING-SIDE-03032023-1345.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LAW-MARKETING-SIDE-03032023-1345-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-95504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UToledo College of Law offers extensive programming to support bar readiness and professional success, underscoring a commitment to student success, professional readiness and public service.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud of our students and all of their hard work,\u201d Dean Rebecca Zietlow said. \u201cI am also thankful to the faculty for their concerted efforts to aid our students with their academic success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UToledo College of Law offers extensive programming to support bar readiness and professional success, underscoring a commitment to student success, professional readiness and public service. This programming includes extended bar preparation courses for third-year students, faculty-led subject review lectures and a post-graduate faculty mentoring program that pairs every graduate with a faculty mentor during the bar study period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud of our graduates\u2019 hard work and are excited to see the contributions they will make as new members of the legal profession,\u201d said Kelly Tomlinson, director of academic success and bar preparation at the College of Law. \u201cThis year, we implemented some new bar preparation initiatives and added a new staff member to provide more individual assistance to our bar takers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New this year, Toledo Law launched the Raising the Bar Fund, a collaborative initiative between the College of Law and the UToledo Foundation. The fund provides stipends for essential living expenses, such as housing, food and transportation, to students targeted for additional support during the critical 10-week study period between commencement and the July bar exam.<\/p>\n<p>Four of six inaugural recipients successfully passed their bar exams, including graduates in Ohio and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing stock photo of UToledo College of Law students engaged in a group study session.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_28_2025\/toledo-law-ranks-second-in-ohio-for-bar-passage\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LAW-MARKETING-SIDE-03032023-1345-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Marketing stock photo of UToledo College of Law students engaged in a group study session.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>The first-time passage rate for the July exam was 86%, a six-year high that surpasses the state average of 80%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":908,"featured_media":95504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,30,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95506,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95503\/revisions\/95506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}