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Legal Education

Aug. 3, 2022

Attorneys who supervise provisional licensees report great success

“Some people are perfectly good attorneys that just maybe can’t pass the bar for some reason,” said Brian H. Nomi, a sole practitioner from Camarillo, who supervises a provisional licensee who has handled trials on her own. “I think it’s just easier for some people to get into the profession by working rather than passing an exam

Despite most California attorneys opposing plans to consider eliminating the bar exam as a prerequisite for a law license, some participants in the state Supreme Court’s 2020 provisional licensure program have come to believe that passing the exam may no longer be the only way to assess legal competency in new attorneys.

“Some people are perfectly good attorneys that just maybe can’t pass the bar for some reason,” Brian H. Nomi, a sole prac...

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