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

    On 1/30/08, steve wrote:
    > 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.

    Actually many states allow apprenticeship qualification to take the bar exam but that is like
    walking up 110 flights of a high-rise instead of taking the elevator. Both ways work but given a
    choice, most people would take the elevator. I think you will find that apprenticeship
    qualification is very rare.

    As we know, most states will allow you to sit for the bar after 3 to 5 years of licensed practice in
    another state regardless of what type of degree you have. Some won't -- like NC which will not
    allow you to sit for their bar without an ABA JD no matter how long you have practiced in another
    state.

    The previous poster who has a year and a half (1L & 2L) at an ABA school several years ago seems to
    be the type of applicant the DC bar exception was designed for. He probably has 26 ABA bar tested
    credits because all ABA schools teach bar subjects in the 1L year and most schools require 30
    credits to be taken in the first year. I would be interested to learn if DC has any time limit on
    old ABA credits or if someone whose credits are 10 years old could still use them to qualify for the
    exception. Of course, DC still requires a C- or better in ABA classes so if a person did very
    poorly in the first year at an ABA school they might not have enough acceptable credits.

    >
    >
    > 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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