State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education
Jun. 10, 2022
Provisionally licensed lawyers speak in favor of no-exam program at state bar meeting
Several provisionally licensed lawyers and advocates commented during the meeting, hoping to persuade the State Bar to suggest the Supreme Court grant an immediate pathway to licensure without the exam.
A commission that met Thursday to discuss whether to license attorneys without requiring bar exam passage said it will make a recommendation to the State Bar Board of Governors later this year, and meanwhile it is closely studying an Oregon program for possible replication.
“To require the bar exam to prove that we are competent at law after we have practiced law for two years, it is as logical as testing a runner on his ability to walk,” s...
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