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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education

Mar. 30, 2020

California attorneys wary of graduates practicing without bar exams during virus crisis

“I believe the proposal ignores the basic purpose of a bar examination, which I believe to be the protection of the consuming public,” said Ronald F. Brot, president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

The California Committee of Bar Examiners will meet in closed session Monday to discuss postponing the July test, which would delay the fall exam and the chances of some graduates starting work as planned. That possibility has raised suggestions of giving graduates emergency degrees that would let them do legal work before passing the bar, a scenario prominent attorneys see as risky and unnecessary.

"I believe the proposal ignores t...

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