2024年7月首次参加密苏里州律师考试的威尼斯人娱乐城法学院学生的通过率为90.6%，比密苏里州所有首次参加考试的学生的通过率高出5%以上。 威尼斯人娱乐城法学院学生的通过率是密苏里州和堪萨斯州所有公立大学中最高的。
“We are incredibly proud of our success on this bar exam,” 威尼斯人娱乐城 法学院 Dean Lumen Mulligan said. “It is a team effort: hardworking students, great faculty, the nation’s top bar-passage professor in Wanda Temm and alumni support. 每个队友都是必不可少的。 Indeed, we appreciate all the alumni gifts supporting the bar prep program, especially our gold-level sponsorship from Wagstaff & Cartmell, LLP.”
参加7月律师资格考试的学生是新律师资格准备项目的首批受益者，该项目由威尼斯人娱乐城法学院发起，旨在为每位法学博士学生提供商业律师资格准备项目和免费的面对面补充课程。 With a July 2024 pass rate that is 9% higher than the July 2023 pass rate of 威尼斯人娱乐城 Law students, the program’s impact is outstanding.
Wanda Temm，法学博士，全国公认的律师资格考试专家，教授补充课程超过20年。 Temm教授了近2000名学生如何准备律师资格考试。 当她开始学习这门课程时，威尼斯人娱乐城法学院是美国首批提供律师资格补充课程的法学院之一。
“威尼斯人娱乐城 has a proud tradition of supporting our students throughout their legal education and bar preparation,” Temm said. “Credit goes to our students who put in the effort it takes and to the law school community, from the administration to faculty, staff and alumni who volunteer to help year after year. We are so proud of this team effort and results.”
威尼斯人娱乐城法学院是美国为数不多的既提供商业律师预备课程，又向学生免费提供面对面补充课程的学校之一。
“This has been a game-changer for our students,” Mulligan said. “Law school is probably the most challenging intellectual exercise they’ll engage in, and the bar exam is the top of that mountain. This initiative ensures that every student has access to these important resources and the best chance to be successful.”
信誉良好的商业律师预备课程平均花费4000美元，这是一笔很高的费用，要求学生在许多人有全职工作之前支付，而且无法用学生贷款支付。 这使得许多学生不得不做出艰难的选择，要么申请商业贷款来支付课程费用，要么试图在不使用课程准备的情况下通过律师资格考试。
Alexis Denny (J.D. ‘23) was in the first class of students to prepare for the bar exam with this extra support.
“The reality of bar prep is that some people have to make an economic-driven decision,” Denny said. “So they choose the cheapest or free option, don’t enroll in the in-person class and try to go it alone. With this initiative, no student has to choose between paying for bills or a bar prep program.”
Some large law firms pay for bar prep expenses, but students with ambitions in areas of law that don’t pay for bar prep, and likely don’t start at high salaries, are now able to pursue those ambitions with less concern regarding expense. 威尼斯人娱乐城法学院以其与堪萨斯城社区的联系和服务而自豪，这是它为该社区及其学生提供价值的另一种方式。
“This initiative is deeply in line with our mission,” Mulligan said. “First-generation and other students with fewer economic means now have access to that resource to succeed. We’re helping to create lawyers who seek a career outside of the private sector such as in public defense, district attorney offices and public service work.”