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

    You don¡¦t need a Bar JD. For example, CA and Vermont allow you to sit for their Bar exams after
    certain years of apprenticeship.

    On 1/30/08, Forrest Gump wrote:
    > 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.
    >
    >

     
     

 
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