The February state bar exam had a 34% pass rate with 1,337 successful test takers—among them, 25 who called the Inland Empire home.
“I feel relieved—it’s a thousand pounds off your shoulders. The hard part’s done, but now comes the work—and that’s the best part,” said Fallon Martinez of Rancho Cucamonga, one of the successful test-takers.
Martinez is going into criminal law, which she has always been passionate about, and is also following in the footsteps of her mother, attorney Sherrie Davidson of Ontario. She will soon be working at the San Bernardino District Attorney’s Office, she said.
Another successful test-taker is Martin Mettias, a real estate broker who