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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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Just mail in two box tops and you are a licensed lawyer....
1 posted on 03/17/2024 9:26:18 AM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok

Maybe I should move there and become a lawyer.


2 posted on 03/17/2024 9:29:38 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: llevrok

Here’s what’s going to happen. People will visit the prospective lawyer and see he/she/it is not white. They’ll leave. So, any legitimate non-white lawyers will be hurt.


3 posted on 03/17/2024 9:30:07 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: llevrok
Not good news when we are watching the Fani Willis Get Trump reality show and seeing what kind of morons are already making it over the bar.

We need to set a higher bar for lawyers, not eliminate it.

4 posted on 03/17/2024 9:30:51 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: llevrok

Why require law school? Which law school did Abraham Lincoln attend?

Professional licensing is just a scam to raise prices under the pretense that it protects the public.


5 posted on 03/17/2024 9:30:53 AM PDT by devere
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To: HYPOCRACY

I knew a lawyer Got his degree through a correspondence course. Passed the BAR. 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?

It’s like those MD’s who work 24 hour shifts in their residency. Is it to weed out the weak ones?

Me thinks they’re lowering the standards due to DEI pressures.


6 posted on 03/17/2024 9:34:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: llevrok

And with that the one holdout elite profession not yet taken over by foreigners begins to topple.


7 posted on 03/17/2024 9:34:36 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)
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To: Gen.Blather
Here’s what’s going to happen. People will visit the prospective lawyer and see he/she/it is not white. They’ll leave. So, any legitimate non-white lawyers will be hurt.

This is true. But the new policy will also open a door to White incompetents.

8 posted on 03/17/2024 9:35:35 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: llevrok

Soft bigotry of low expectations in action.


9 posted on 03/17/2024 9:35:43 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: llevrok

Do the states still require the bar exam ???


10 posted on 03/17/2024 9:36:31 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: llevrok

Just pop in and we’ll stamp the capital L on your forehead


11 posted on 03/17/2024 9:37:24 AM PDT by butlerweave
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That’s how it used to be.
I have no problem with this


12 posted on 03/17/2024 9:37:27 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: llevrok

Why just not require them to get a liquor license?


13 posted on 03/17/2024 9:37:41 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: HYPOCRACY

You won’t have to examine any bars any more.


14 posted on 03/17/2024 9:38:56 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Bar examust be tough. Hillary Clinton flunked it at first try. And she is the smartest woman in America according to Democrats.


15 posted on 03/17/2024 9:38:57 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I will be voting for Trump/whoever in November. If he loses in 2024, country is finished.)
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To: llevrok
" . . . the traditional test . . . is at best minimally effective” for ensuring competency . . . "

The Washington State Supreme Court is proof of that. They are biased and stupid, a bad combination.
16 posted on 03/17/2024 9:39:50 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: llevrok

Wisconsin has had Diploma Privilege for law school graduates for quite some time.


17 posted on 03/17/2024 9:40:29 AM PDT by Fury
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To: llevrok

This will give the out of work Uber drivers options.


18 posted on 03/17/2024 9:42:10 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: llevrok

Doctors and nurses next.


19 posted on 03/17/2024 9:44:29 AM PDT by Hattie
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“”...new attorneys who are so desperately needed around the state.”


I was unaware that there was a lawyer shortage. I was always under the impression that there are too many of them.


20 posted on 03/17/2024 9:46:10 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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