So on September 4, Kramer paid up<\/a>. He sat down at a tattoo parlor and got an Elon Law-themed \u201c1 & Done\u201d inked onto his forearm, a nod to the school\u2019s mantra about clearing the bar on the first try. Now, \u201c1 and done\u201d is a lovely sentiment when you\u2019re talking about the bar exam, but somewhere out there, a parent of an only child just felt an inexplicable pang of solidarity with a law school dean they have never met.<\/p>\n But family-planning connotations aside, it\u2019s a genuinely nice gesture and proof Kramer isn\u2019t a regular dean, he\u2019s a cool dean. And he\u2019s got the ink to prove it. <\/p>\n Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of\u00a0The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of\u00a0Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email\u00a0her<\/a>\u00a0with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The post This Law School Dean Promised A Tattoo If His Students Crushed The Bar Exam<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Welp, a deal is a deal. Elon University School of Law Dean Zak Kramer made his students a promise: hit an 85% first-time bar passage rate as a class, and he\u2019d get a tattoo in their honor. Equal parts motivation and branding\u2026 and a little bit of a stunt, but one a dean is only gonna pull when he genuinely believes the number is gettable.<\/p>\n The Class of 2025 did not merely get there. They crushed it<\/a>, posting a 91.96% first-time pass rate on the North Carolina bar \u2014 a school record, and one that towers over the statewide first-time rate of 74.78%. (Across North Carolina and 11 other jurisdictions, the class hit 90.9%.)<\/p>\n So on September 4, Kramer paid up<\/a>. He sat down at a tattoo parlor and got an Elon Law-themed \u201c1 & Done\u201d inked onto his forearm, a nod to the school\u2019s mantra about clearing the bar on the first try. Now, \u201c1 and done\u201d is a lovely sentiment when you\u2019re talking about the bar exam, but somewhere out there, a parent of an only child just felt an inexplicable pang of solidarity with a law school dean they have never met.<\/p>\n But family-planning connotations aside, it\u2019s a genuinely nice gesture and proof Kramer isn\u2019t a regular dean, he\u2019s a cool dean. And he\u2019s got the ink to prove it. <\/p>\n Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of\u00a0The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of\u00a0Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email\u00a0her<\/a>\u00a0with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky\u00a0@Kathryn1<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The post This Law School Dean Promised A Tattoo If His Students Crushed The Bar Exam<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welp, a deal is a deal. Elon University School of Law Dean Zak Kramer made his students a promise: hit an 85% first-time bar passage rate as a class, and he\u2019d get a tattoo in their honor. Equal parts motivation and branding\u2026 and a little bit of a stunt, but one a dean is only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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