Skip to content
PreLaw Advisor
  • Law school directorySearch and filter every school
  • Compare schoolsUp to four side by side
  • Areas of lawWhat lawyers do, and where it is taught
  • Degrees and program typesJ.D. formats, LL.M. and more
  • Costs and outcomesTuition, employment, bar passage
  • Admissions guideHow an application is put together
  • Application plannerChecklists, essays, deadlines
  • Law schools worldwideSchools in over a hundred countries
  • Data and methodologyWhere every figure comes from

↑↓ to move · Enter to open · Esc to close

Portland, Oregon

Lewis & Clark Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1970
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time and Part-time J.D.
Add to my applications
Median LSAT
161
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.59
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$61,434
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
176
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
79.7%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
86.7%
2025 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

First-time bar passage — 2023 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — first-time takers (2024 report)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Open official source (opens in a new tab)
School pass rate
77.6%
Weighted jurisdiction rate
74%
Difference
+3.56 pts
First-time takers
165
128 passed

The weighted jurisdiction rate is the average first-time pass rate in the jurisdictions where this school’s graduates tested, weighted by the number of takers. It gives context for the school’s own rate.

First-time results by jurisdiction
JurisdictionTakersPassersSchool %Jurisdiction %Difference
Oregon12910883.7%73.3%+10.40
15 Remaining Jurisdictions261557.7%76.6%-18.86
California10550%72.3%-22.33

Ultimate bar passage — 2021 graduates

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Bar Passage compilation — two-year ultimate (2024 report)
Covers
Report year 2024
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
Open official source (opens in a new tab)
Ultimate pass rate
90.2%
Within two years of graduation
Graduates
176
Takers
163
Passers
147

Ultimate passage counts graduates who passed any bar exam within two years of graduating. It is a different measure from first-time passage and covers an earlier graduating class.

First-time passage history

First-time pass rate by graduating class
Graduating classSchoolJurisdictions
202586.7%77.1%
202485%75%
202377.6%74%
202278.6%77.3%
202180.5%80.7%
202075%82.7%
201981%79.6%
201873.2%75.8%
201779.3%80.5%