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Education

Jan. 25, 2013

Dean says students should be able to take bar exam after two years

Northwestern law school dean Daniel B. Rodriguez believes some law students should be allowed to become lawyers after two years of law school to ease their debt loads and provide more lawyers for the poor and middle-class.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


CORONADO - Allowing would-be lawyers to take the bar exam after only two years of law school could help ease graduates' crushing debt while also providing more lawyers for underserved clients, according to Daniel B. Rodriguez, law dean at Northwestern University. Yet even as he advocated for the idea, Rodriguez acknowledged it wouldn't meet most students' needs and could have unforeseen probl...

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