Graduating law school students, citing coronavirus concerns, urge Ohio to let them bypass the bar exam - citing anxiety.
The students this week petitioned the Ohio Supreme Court and its bar
admissions office to adopt a practice known as “diploma privilege,”
which would allow them to be licensed to practice law by virtue of their
juris doctorate degrees.
That would relieve anxiety among students now contemplating taking an exam
in a crowded area while the coronavirus crisis still exists or delaying
an exam, Matthew Wagner, president of the Cleveland-Marshall College of
Law Student Bar Association, said in an interview with cleveland.com.
Delaying the exam, Wagner noted, would increase anxiety about the ability to
practice law and begin paying off student loans. Allowing the graduates
to practice, on the other hand, would help ensure a steady supply of
lawyers in an era where legal representation is going to be needed, he
said.
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Already Connecticut and Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York have
postponed their summer bar exams, Wagner said. Utah’s Supreme Court this
week ordered that qualified recent graduates in that state could be
admitted to the bar without exam. Wisconsin has long had a form of diploma privilege in place.
Are we supposed to only let 73% of them practice - the Ohio bar passage rate? https://www.crainscleveland.com/jere...july-bar-exams
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