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Re: RE: DC Bar and Novus
Posted by steve on 1/25/08

    I don・t think it really matters whether the courses are offered through J.D. or
    LL.M. program, as long as they are subjects tested on the DC Bar. For example,
    Golden Gate University allows its LL.M. US Legal Studies students to take J.D.
    classes as electives that include constitutional law, contracts, torts, property,
    and etc.

    Anyway, that wasn・t exactly what Crown Prince and I were arguing about. Crown
    Prince didn・t believe that a Novus J.D. + 26 ABA credits could qualify one to sit
    for the DC Bar. Perhaps it・s question for this forum. What makes a non-bar J.D.
    from West Coast different from a Novus J.D.?

    On 1/25/08, P wrote:
    > "--": you've explained it just fine.
    >
    > steve: i know of two persons who are practicing in DC who obtained their JD
    > through distance learning (neither of them, i may add, has a "non" bar JD). both
    > accumulated the 26 credits through in-person 1L and 2L courses. i've never met or
    > heard of anyone who became qualified to sit for DC with LLM courses.
    >
    > hey, i'd love to be shown to be wrong. but many people, on this board and
    > elsewhere, have researched this with great diligence. again, look to the policy of
    > DC and what their intentions are.
    >
    > and, please, someone, prove us wrong.
    >
    > -P
    >
    > On 1/24/08, -- wrote:
    >> On 1/24/08, steve wrote:
    >>> Hi Crown Prince,
    >>>
    >>> http://www.newjurist.com/The-D.C-BAR-Option.htm
    >>>
    >>> Check this out.
    >>> The author holds non-bar J.D. from West Coast and is a DC attorney.
    >>> I hope this can convince you.
    >>
    >> We had several posts on this last week. This guy went to an ABA school to pick
    >> up the 26 credits as a 1L after graduating from West Coast. There is no
    >> question that a DL JD + 26 ABA credits will get you in to take the DC bar -- but
    >> the only way to get the 26 ABA credits is at a brick and mortar ABA 1L school.
    >> A DL or even brick and mortar LL.M will not get you the 26 ABA credits you need
    >> no matter how you try to interpret the LL.M classes.
    >>
    >> You will still have to do first year (1L) at an ABA school. CP can probably
    >> explain this better than I did.
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >>>> On 1/24/08, Crown Prince wrote:
    >>>> There is one small problem: IT DOESN"T WORK! I dare you to either provide a
    >>>> letter signed by the dept. of admissions at the DC bar, or provide me the
    >>>> name of one, just one attorney who has done it this way. The problem is that
    >>>> you can do neither. Seriously. Get your facts straight. E-mails from joe
    >>> blow
    >>>> probably are not legit. You might have learned that if you went to lawschool
    >>>> or had access to Nexis-Lexis or Westlaw.
    >>>>
    >>>> No one would like a loophole more than me. Anyone who knows my story can
    >>> tell
    >>>> you that I really want to be admitted to the bar. I might not be great at
    >>>> taking the baby bar, but I don't live in the 'Twilight Zone."
    >>>>
    >>>> Crown Prince
    >>>>
    >>>> On 1/23/08, steve wrote:
    >>>>> Hi Crown Prince,
    >>>>>
    >>>>> If West Coast non-bar J.D. + 26 ABA credits works for DC Bar, I don't see
    >>>>> why it can't work for Novus graduates.
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>>

     
     

 
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