Posted on 11/14/2023 9:56:51 AM PST by Pol-92064
Passing the bar exam is no longer the only way to become a lawyer in Oregon.
Students at the state’s three law school can now bypass the grueling two-day test by logging hundreds of hours at a law firm and then submitting samples of their work for review under a new system approved last week by the Oregon Supreme Court.
The Supervised Practice Portfolio Examination makes Oregon the first state in the nation to allow students to become lawyers through a post-graduation apprenticeship, though backers believe it won’t be the last.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Well here in New York you can become Attorney general just by saying you are going to prosecute Trump just because he’s Trump, no need for any crime or evidence of a crime, you can be blatantly bias and even be assigned as the judge.
Standards? We don’t need no stinking standards!!
Become an engineer by playing with an erector set. A MD by riding in an EMS vehicle. There is a reason folks display their Diplomas on the wall.
(yeah, in case you had any questions, I am being sarcastic.)
Reading for the law used to be a very accepted practice. But if it’s coming from Oregon, it’ll be done wrong, and for the wrong reasons. The bar is actually a cartel.
just another example of lowering the standards to increase number of blacks
Always hire a lawyer with gray hair, not pink.
Worse yet, I guarantee anyone so applying and approved will be from politically correct and Leftist law firms. Conservative students will still have to pass the bar exam.
I'm not so sure in this case. D.C. is full of lawyers turned professional politicians, all of whom passed the bar examine. Once they became insiders they became corrupt and have created an epic disaster in every direction in this country.
And we need more lawyers, why?????
I guess there aren’t enough annoying TV commercials and billboards yet. I’m sure the motivator is to bring more DEI into the legal profession.
Don’t be fooled. There are other states that allow apprenticeships instead of law school, but the bar exam is still required. That is reasonable. This is just about admitting more unqualified folks.
It's what they did in the 1800's. Not bad results. Of course the assumption was that basic education was a given. Not so these days thanks to the Left.
For many years one could become an attorney by reading law and working in a law office.
Here is what I found on Google:
In the United States, there are four states that allow a person to qualify to take the bar exam without attending any law school: California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Instead, the student studies between three and four years in a law office. Each state has their own rules regarding reading the law, but all require that the student study the black letter law in multiple subjects. A fifth state, New York, allows students to enter into a law office study program after completing one year of law school.
Hmmm. They might also end this experiment if the attorneys who apprentice end up more successful than the people who get themselves properly indoctrinated in the Marxist law schools.
100%
And the cops at the time didn't need a college degree. And most of the time they took care of business in a very expeditious way.
I think that apprenticeship, in itself, is great. Most jobs could be taught through apprenticeships and it’s how they train people past school in Europe, because the guild system is still used in Europe.
However this is being done with an agenda which makes it a disaster, imo.
Erle Stanley Gardner dropped out after one semester. He was a law clerk at a Los Angeles practice and passed the bar exam and had a very successful practice. Calvin Coolidge was a practicing lawyer and never attended law school. Lincoln never attended law school. Law school was a 20th Century innovation, prior to that one learned the law by apprenticing.
In fact, a few years ago, graduates of Suffolk (close cover before striking) Law had a higher rate of first time passing the Massachusetts Bar exam than graduates of Haavaad Law. It’s probably still true today. The Haavaad kids had to attend cram school over a deli at night to learn about silly little things like torts and causal estoppel because they were too busy learning critical law theory, which the bar exam inexcusably ignores.
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