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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education

May 5, 2022

State Bar will discuss plan to offer license without exam

A Blue Ribbon Commission is expected to make a recommendation later this year. Most lawyers say they don’t support the plan.

A State Bar commission is meeting Thursday to discuss whether to recommend to the State Supreme Court a way for lawyers to be licensed without taking an exam, signaling a possible end to the testing requirement in California.

Another alternative to be discussed at the livestreamed meeting that begins at 10 a.m. is a California-specific bar exam.

The Blue Ribbon Commission has yet to indicate which recommendatio...

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