Letter to the Editor
Feb. 25, 2013
Passed the bar? Not impressed.
Perhaps the State Bar instead needs to set aside the legal fiction that a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam are sufficient to create a fully competent lawyer. By George W. Wolff
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Perhaps the State Bar needs to set aside the legal fiction that a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam are sufficient to create a full-fledged lawyer, competent to practice on one's own, without further supervision or training. ["State Bar Proposal for More Practical Skills Training Will Only Burden Law Students," Feb. 20]. Why not expressly recognize, as is done in other professions such as architecture, professional...
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