What, no alternative pathways to licensure in Georgia yet? They seem perfectly suited for this.
Abraham Lincoln never went to law school.
The BAR is just a lawyer’s union with a fancy name.
The idiotic black equal opportunity affirmative action lawyers going after Trump aren’t stupid enough. We need some even dumber ones.
About 30 years ago no one passed the Washington State Bar Exam. Everyone failed the ethics test. No need to worry about the ethics if no bar exam.
Last Hurrah for lawyers. In just a handfull of year, AI will run laps around lawyers with ease. Complete near instance recall of every case. A completely history of winning and losing arguments. I would think layers could be among the first white collar jobs to fall.
Proof of participation in an Antifa riot should work.
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do they mean Stupid People?
what groups are marginalized? Double A's? Im not following this logic. If you go to school, learn proper english, do your home work, go to college, then apply to law school. You get to prove you are a capable and knowledgeable enough to handle the U.S. court system.
Whos being marginalized? is this D.E.I.?
Given the demonstrated laughable performance of certain “lawyers” in the news lately, ‘twould appear that the passage of the bar exam was perhaps ignored. Now, we wouldn’t want to mention any names, but those clowns have done a great job of bringing disdain on an already not very respected profession. Today’s lawyers are doing to the profession what Boeing executives are doing to engineering.
Considering that the ABA is firmly in the grips of Wokeness I have a feeling the current exams deal more with DEI than hard core legal wrangles. So this may be a blessing in disguise.
Incompetents are admitted to law school based on affirmative action. Said incompetents are then presented law degrees because failing them would be racist. Said incompetents are then elected as prosecutors and judges. US then continues its march to third-world status.
Another outstanding example of the dimmocrap way to deal with inability to pass any sort of standard: eliminate it. Minority students can’t pass tests? Eliminate the tests. Illegals can’t vote? Eliminate the need to be a citizen. High school students can’t get decent ACT or SAT scores? Eliminate the tests. And so on. Now, YOU can have a lawyer who could not pass the bar, so good ol’ Washington State eliminated that nasty little requirement! Waiting for surgeons who don’t need to get M.D. degrees!
For D.E.I. Yay!!!
American law schools graduate TWICE as many lawyers every year than the American legal system can employ.
There are thousands of young people with law degrees who are retail store clerks or food servers.
Law schools have been exposed by books and articles as gigantic scams to take the money of suckers and provide them with a worthless degree. They brag to potential students about the employment opportunities which are proven lies.
Law schools are organized fraud upon the unsuspecting.
All public university law schools should be closed for at least ten years, if not PERMANENTLY.
Given that Fani Willis apparently passed the bar exam in Florida, along with her lover Wade...
More deterioration of the justice system. More and more lawyers and future judges who have no idea what the law is.
If I was a white shoe firm partner in Seattle, I would be shitting a solid brick.
Oregon, nobody gives a flap, Oregon lost their unicorn status 20 years ago. BUT tech unicorns and their wealthy legions of lawyers are still a thing in Seattle, and AI goes through Redburn's MS campus right now.
If they think these pseudo-attorney creatures are just going to chase ambulances? Or go where the shortage really is, in criminal defense?
Hell no, they are going to band together and offer the same patent, R&D and M&A legal services at half the white shoe price.
This is hilarious. The ABA protected this franchise for eons, even after their leadership was conquered by neomarxists under Shrub, they still weren't accrediting these faux law schools and in fact, were busy punishing the last 20 on the accredited list with accreditation probations and suspensions.
A few jungle primary elections later, and a puppet-state installation in The White Hospice, et voila!
And now these legislatures have subverted their neomarxist indoctrination colleagues and their monopoly. You. can't. make. this. shit. up.
America continues its decline.
I’m of two minds on this. To the extent that this furthers the dumbing down of our country, and the lowering of its standards, I’m against it. On the other hand, it could offer consumers a lower cost alternative to expensive bar approved lawyers. But buyer beware. All lawyers should be required to divulge to any prospective clients whether they’ve passed the bar or not. It would then be on the prospective client to weigh that, along with other factors, in choosing counsel.
Also, anyone serving in government, whether as a government lawyer, prosecutor or judge should be required to be a member of the bar in good standing. State bars are not perfect, but they do offer a fairly effective way of certifying basic competency.