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

    Can a non-bar J.D. practice any sort of law? eg. federal law or social security? Or
    does one need to pass the bar in a state? I am new to this and do not know much about
    DL law schools. Also, I thought that non-bar law school were going to be abolished
    (according to other threads I have read on this website). Thank you.


    On 1/25/08, steve wrote:
    > 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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