The American Bar Association’s national accreditation arm approved stricter standards for law schools, now requiring graduates achieve a 75% bar passage rate within two years instead of five.The new bar passage standard the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the bar approved on Friday will first be used to evaluate the Class of 2017 once numbers for that cohort are released in spring 2020.Two-year bar passage data for 2016 graduates from the ABA shows that 24 of the 202 currently …