Bar Success Curriculum Requirements for Students who Matriculated June 2023 or later.

Seattle U Law has created a specialized curriculum to prepare students to pass the bar exam, a crucial step on the path to becoming a practicing attorney.

  • Strongly encouraged for all students, as the curriculum covers essential content areas and skills tested on the bar exam.
  • Mandatory for students with a GPA under 3.00 after their first year.

Required Courses

Second Year

Third Year

Bar Success Curriculum Requirements for Students who Matriculated June 2023 or later

Seattle U Law has created a specialized curriculum to prepare students to pass the bar exam, a crucial step on the path to becoming a practicing attorney.

  • Strongly encouraged for all students, as the curriculum covers essential content areas and skills tested on the bar exam.
  • Mandatory for students with a GPA under 3.00 after their first year.

Required Courses:

Bar Success Curriculum Requirements for Students who Matriculated June 2023 or later.

Seattle U Law has created a specialized curriculum to prepare students to pass the bar exam, a crucial step on the path to becoming a practicing attorney.

  • Strongly encouraged for all students, as the curriculum covers essential content areas and skills tested on the bar exam.
  • Mandatory for students with a GPA under 3.00 after their first year.

Required Courses

Bar Success Prescribed Curriculum Requirements for Students who Matriculated Before June 2023.

Seattle U Law has created a specialized curriculum to prepare students to pass the bar exam, a crucial step on the path to becoming a practicing attorney.

  • Strongly encouraged for all students, as the curriculum covers essential content areas and skills tested on the bar exam.
  • Mandatory for students ranked in the bottom third of their class after completing the first 30 credit hours.

Courses

Requirements for bottom third students

The Bar Success Prescribed Curriculum is required for students ranked in the bottom third of their class at the end of the first year. They must complete the curriculum in conjunction with the upper-level degree requirements in the following sequence:

Full-time students

Part-time

Prior to completing 60 credits

Prior to completing 90 credits

Registration

  • Bottom third students will be automatically registered for Trusts and Estates and Bar Exam Strategies and Skills.
  • Students can submit section preferences before registration appointments begin.
  • Because registration occurs before spring class ranks are available, initial 2L registration will be based on the prior fall's class ranks.

Modification to or release from policy

A student may petition the Vice Dean to modify this policy if application of the policy would prevent the student from participating in an academic program that would be in the student's best interests. At a minimum, the student's petition should:

  1. Identify the academic program the student wishes to participate in.
  2. Explain the policy modification sought.
  3. Explain how the modification is in the student's best interests. 
  4. Include a recommendation from the Academic Excellence and Bar Success team
  5. Include any other information the Vice Dean deems necessary.

A student may petition the Vice Dean for release from this policy, upon a showing of a substantial improvement in the student's academic performance in required and/or bar tested courses. At a minimum, the student's petition should:

  1. Explain why release from the policy is in the student's best interests.
  2. Include a recommendation from the Academic Excellence and Bar Success team
  3. Include any other information the Vice Dean deems necessary.

Contact

Brooke D. Coleman
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Law
Sullivan Hall 210I
206-398-4987
colemanb@seattleu.edu