[1rudeboy]

. . . or not go to law school at all. In Illinois they could even still become lawyers WITHOUT going to law school.

Do you have a source for this?

[bvw]

Geesh, you got me tagged on that one. Perhaps it was my imagination, perhaps it used to be the way I said and was changed -- in any case, as Best I can determine Illinois does indeed require a *ABA accredited* law degree.

What I remembered was that in honor of Abraham Lincoln, Illinois was the one state where a law degree was not required. It may be that WAS the case up until some revision of the law. Admission requirment chage and it's hard (at least via Google) to track their history. And the ABA -- hey they are greedy for a tighter franchise, perhaps they are Stalinesque too -- maybe the memory banks are scrubbed. Carthage is erased from the face of Terra.

For an example of the ABA reaching -- in Illinois in some recent year hey changed the law to require ONLY law degrees from ABA Accredited law schools. How -- incestuous well, monopolistic.

Very few states now allow law degrees from "rogue" law schools! And only two or three allow admission to the bar without a degree, but Illinois doesn't seem to be one of them.

Thanks for calling out my mistake! I do appreciate it.