State Bar & Bar Associations,
Law Practice
Mar. 23, 2023
As release of report on alternative path to licensure looms, commissioners are at odds over the process
Commissioners were selected to participate and deliberate the complex issues surrounding the attorney licensure in California – not to vote the predetermined interest of groups they belong to or support.
Susan Smith Bakhshian
Director of Bar Programs
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Email: susan.bakhshian@LLS.edu
Over the past two years I have enjoyed the privilege of serving as a commissioner on the Blue Ribbon Commission for the Future of the Bar Exam. While I respect many of the commissioners who voted differently than me, I remain deeply frustrated by the votes in opposition to simply investigating alternatives when those votes came from commissioners who never asked a question or expressed any reasons to oppose the exploration of alternatives. To refuse to consider optio...
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