it\u2019s time to do away with the bar exam<\/a>, since it\u2019s not \u201cinclusive\u201c enough. <\/p>With all due respect to someone who, I suggest with all humility, hasn\u2019t quite earned it yet, allow me to suggest alternatives approach; do away with law school as we know it today.In<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not every country requires a would-be lawyer to spend three years and $200,000 in law school as a prerequisite to taking the bar exam. In the United Kingdom, for example, it\u2019s perfectly acceptable to \u201cread\u201c for the British equivalent of the bar exam – One can walk in (figuratively, I\u2019m sure; I imagine there are fees, registrations and so forth) and take the exam, and on success, become a practicing Barrister.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would suspect it\u2019s harder to pass the test without three years of motivated study, to say nothing of getting a job worth the effort without the degree (and the alumni guide) from a high-end law school. <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
But opening the profession up to people who are motivated to practice law, rather than acquire the most prestigious sheepskin, couldn\u2019t hurt the ailing profession.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The new dean of the Hamline Mitchell law school says it\u2019s time to do away with the bar exam, since it\u2019s not \u201cinclusive\u201c enough. With all due respect to someone who, I suggest with all humility, hasn\u2019t quite earned it yet, allow me to suggest alternatives approach; do away with law school as we know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79627\/revisions\/79632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}