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(WA)Supreme Court: Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in Washington State
Spokesman-Review (Spokane) ^ | 3/15/2024 | Emma Epperly

Posted on 03/17/2024 9:26:18 AM PDT by llevrok

The bar exam will no longer be required to become a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday.

The court approved alternative ways to show competency and earn a law license after appointing a task force to examine the issue in 2020.

The Bar Licensure Task Force found that the traditional exam “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks” marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys and is “at best minimally effective” for ensuring competency, according to a news release from the Washington Administrative Office of the Courts.

Washington is the second state to not require the bar exam, following Oregon, which implemented the change at the start of this year. Other states, including Minnesota, Nevada, South Dakota and Utah, are examining alternative pathways to licensure.

“These recommendations come from a diverse body of lawyers in private and public practice, academics, and researchers who contributed immense insight, counterpoints and research to get us where we are today,” Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, who chaired the task force, said in a statement. “With these alternative pathways, we recognize that there are multiple ways to ensure a competent, licensed body of new attorneys who are so desperately needed around the state.”

There will be three experiential-learning alternatives to the bar exam, each for people following a different path of legal study. The specifics, scale and implementation plan for the pathways have yet to be developed.

Law school graduates can complete a six-month apprenticeship while being supervised and guided by a qualified attorney, along with finishing three courses.

Law students can become practice-ready by completing 12 qualifying skills credits and 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern. Upon completion of those requirements, they would submit a portfolio of that work to waive the bar exam. ..............

(Excerpt) Read more at spokesman.com ...


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To: llevrok
Frito Pendejo is happy about this. And he likes money.


21 posted on 03/17/2024 9:46:32 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Algonquin J. Calhoun, “Not only do I deny the allegations, I deny the allegator.”


22 posted on 03/17/2024 9:47:11 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: HYPOCRACY
Maybe I should move there and become a lawyer.

I think every state permits reciprocal licensing for working lawyers.

That is, if you've been practicing law in state X for five or seven years and you move to state Y, then state Y will admit you to practice law without requiring you to pass state Y's bar exam.

So move to Washington, become a lawyer, then move to any other state after a certain number of years. Easy peasy.

23 posted on 03/17/2024 9:47:49 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Sounds like a plan. Thanks!


24 posted on 03/17/2024 9:50:41 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
This test seems kinda stupid knowing they have to give up 3 months or more of their life to prepare. How does that make them a better lawyer?

Wonder if you'd feel the same way if fighting a murder frame up and you have to depend on a lawyer for a defense that could take many months of intense preparation when that "lawyer" couldn't prepare for and handle a simple bar exam.

25 posted on 03/17/2024 9:51:20 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: llevrok

This is only and expressly to license those who can’t pass their bar exam.


26 posted on 03/17/2024 9:51:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: llevrok
The CPA exam has been watered down over the years, too. Used to be it was given twice a year, in May and November. Now, I think it can be taken nearly every month.

Took me 3 times to pass it, but that was according to plan. Knocked out Theory and Practice the first time, second time was the following May, right after tax season. Passed the last two in November.

Essay questions got me over the hump. I had the same professor for 30+ hours, his tests were all essay.

27 posted on 03/17/2024 9:55:15 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: llevrok

There will be three experiential-learning alternatives to the bar exam, each for people following a different path of legal study. The specifics, scale and implementation plan for the pathways have yet to be developed.


https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/?fa=newsinfo.pressdetail&newsid=50389
Create three experiential-learning alternatives to the bar exam, one for law-school graduates, one for law-school students, and one for APR 6 law clerks (who are enrolled in a non-law school course of study).

For graduates, this would entail a six-month apprenticeship under the guidance and supervision of a qualified attorney; during that time, the graduates would be required to complete three courses of standardized coursework.

For law students, the experiential pathway would allow them to graduate practice-ready by completing 12 qualifying skills credits and 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern; they would be required to submit a portfolio of this work to waive the bar exam.

For law clerks (enrolled in a non-law school course of study), creation of additional standardized educational materials and benchmarks to be completed under the guidance of their tutors that dovetail with the requirements of the law school graduate apprenticeship, and 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern to be eligible to waive the bar exam.


Who is in charge is more important than the methods. Leadership is key, will we have proper leadership? Place your bets....................


28 posted on 03/17/2024 9:55:26 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: llevrok

not enough blacks can pass the bar exam, so the lefts answer is simply to get rid of the exam!


29 posted on 03/17/2024 9:58:29 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: llevrok

What, no alternative pathways to licensure in Georgia yet? They seem perfectly suited for this.


30 posted on 03/17/2024 9:58:31 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Yes, the bar exam is indeed an impediment to marginalized stupid people becoming lawyers.....


31 posted on 03/17/2024 10:00:31 AM PDT by zoomie92 (Reality check)
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To: llevrok

Abraham Lincoln never went to law school.

The BAR is just a lawyer’s union with a fancy name.


32 posted on 03/17/2024 10:00:51 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: llevrok

The idiotic black equal opportunity affirmative action lawyers going after Trump aren’t stupid enough. We need some even dumber ones.


33 posted on 03/17/2024 10:04:01 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: llevrok

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.


34 posted on 03/17/2024 10:04:21 AM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: Salman

Doctors are next. Your prediction is already taking place.


35 posted on 03/17/2024 10:06:30 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: DIRTYSECRET

What they are doing is accomodating Sharia Law.


36 posted on 03/17/2024 10:06:54 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370)
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To: llevrok

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.


37 posted on 03/17/2024 10:09:51 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: llevrok

Proof of participation in an Antifa riot should work.

;-)


38 posted on 03/17/2024 10:11:39 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: llevrok
The Bar Licensure Task Force found that the traditional exam “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks” marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys and is “at best minimally effective” for ensuring competency,

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.?

39 posted on 03/17/2024 10:22:35 AM PDT by Ikeon
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To: rigelkentaurus

“AI”

garbage in -> garbage out


40 posted on 03/17/2024 10:24:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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