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Re: RE: DC Bar and Novus
Posted by Forrest Gump on 1/30/08

    Go back through my posts, Jose responded to me:

    Yes, you are correct. However, an LLM from an ABA law school would not help
    because the courses given in most LLM programs are not in subjects tested on the
    MBE. According to Rule 46, you can take the DC Bar after 5 years of practice.

    In order to have "5 years of practice" YOU HAVE TO PASS A BAR EXAM SOMEWHERE...

    which means you have to have a Bar JD...

    So you need a Bar JD, but if it's correspondence the 1L courses were not from an ABA school, so
    you have two choices. You either go to an LLM school and pay $30K to take 1L courses if they are
    available (unlike what he said some are available. I know a Chinese attorney who was allowed to
    take the California bar after taking the 1L courses at USC, but she had passed a foreign bar
    exam) but they may not apply toward an LLM, or 2) pass the Cali bar, practice federal law in
    another state like that florida guy for 5 years then take the DC bar.

    So yes he mistated the rule. I don't think he intended to lie. But you can think what you want.


    On 1/29/08, steve wrote:
    > Hi Forrest Gump,
    >
    > So are you telling me now that the author lied about having the non-bar J.D. from West Coast?
    >
    >
    >
    > On 1/29/08, Forrest Gump wrote:
    >> It's the non-bar degree.
    >>
    >> You can't just go to back of matchbook university and pay $1500 for a degree. That's
    >> horsepucky and he knows it (and admits it).
    >>
    >> On 1/29/08, steve wrote:
    >>> Hi Forrest Gump,
    >>>
    >>> He specifically said that it¡¦s 26 ABA credits in subjects taken on the Multistate Bar
    >>> Exam. He mentioned nothing about LL.M. degree. Am I missing something?
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> "D.C. Bar Rule 46(b)(8)(iii) states that an applicant may take the D.C. Bar exam if the
    >>> applicant has successfully completed 26 ABA credits in subjects taken on the Multistate
    >>> Bar Exam (MBE) and has earned a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from a non-ABA law school. This
    >>> degree can be a non-bar J.D. degree, such as an Executive Juris Doctorate, or a bar J.D.
    >>> degree from a California correspondence law school. In order to have successfully
    >>> completed a subject taken on the M.B.E., a student should have achieved a grade of at
    >>> least a C-."
    >>>
    >>>
    >>> On 1/28/08, Forrest Gump wrote:
    >>>> He made the statement that you can take the DC Bar with a DL Degree and an LLM degree.
    >>>>
    >>>> The LLM doesn't matter. It's the first year courses that the DC bar requires.
    >>>>
    >>>> FG
    >>>> On 1/27/08, steve wrote:
    >>>>> Hi Forrest Gump,
    >>>>>
    >>>>> You haven't answered my question yet.
    >>>>> So here goes again.
    >>>>> Which part of the paper did he admit he was wrong?
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>>
    >>>>> On 1/27/08, Forrest Gump wrote:
    >>>>>> Steveee,
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> The fact that he admitted it doesn't mean he'll get it changed on that website (or,
    >>>>>> that he'll ever change it)
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> The school that sponsored that website is dead and gone. Their website is closed. If
    >>>>>> you want to believe drivel supported by a non-existant law school, who's dean is
    >>>>>> now "administrative" dean (re secretary) of a third-rate DL school?
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> Fine... stupid is what stupid does,
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> FG
    >>>>>> On 1/25/08, steve wrote:
    >>>>>>> Hi ForrestGump,
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> So which part of the paper did he admit he was wrong?
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>

     
     

 
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