The National Law Journal, February 26, 2009 by Vesna Jaksic
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The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law uses high honors, honors and pass designations and has no intention of changing that policy, said Stephen D. Sugarman…. “If you give everyone A’s and there aren’t any A-pluses, or if you don’t give honors and high honors, you just wouldn’t have a way to easily distinguish the best 25 or the best 10 percent of your students,” Sugarman said. “So I think you need in some ways to help the judges and help yourself decide who to promote as the best students.”