re: Washington State Supreme Court rules that the Bar Exam is racist and no longer required.

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No one has argued the bar is a fool proof way to cut morons out of the profession. It is a barrier for entry for people who cannot grasp the basic fundamentals of a number of basic practice areas. It is not asking you to master these areas - just enough to pass essay or multiple choice questions.

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I always thought these types of professional exams should be in two parts.

Upon graduation, pass an exam that, as you say, is a barrier for entry. Upon passing this you get granted some sort of apprentice or provisional status.

At this level you can't practice on your own, you need to be supervised.

Then at some point, maybe it's 5 years down the road, maybe it's not a time table but whenever a candidate feels like they are ready, etc, they take a second, harder exam, and if they pass that, they get a full certificate status.

So the thugs who are convicted will have a 10000% chance to file / win an appeal based on incompetent legal representation? This will spread way beyond criminal law & open up every field of legal practice to winnable appeals guaranteed at every level of legal disputes. How soon will it take for Morris Bart to send out his team of paralegals / attys to set up offices all along the Coast?

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AuburnTigers

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That's a very good and pertinent gif because we are watching Idiocracy coming to fruition right before our eyes, courtesy of the left wing

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The same outfit is going to be finding marginalized groups are disproportionately, negatively affected by ineffective assistance of counsel in about a decade

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Well said.

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The same outfit is going to be finding marginalized groups are disproportionately, negatively affected by ineffective assistance of counsel in about a decade

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Still have your vote though, thats all that matters.

More nonsense from the inmates running the leftist asylum.

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It should still be offered and then people can choose if they want an attorney who passed the bar to represent them or not.

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I haven't seen a proposed order that would do away with the bar exam as an option. There are two three proposed alternatives to the bar exam, namely:

(1) Law School Graduates can do a combination of a 6 month internship and take some courses

(2) Law School Students can do an internship and have some skills courses

(3) Law Clerks will have a non-law school route by showing certain skills requirements, taking a different group of classes and doing the internship.

WA state will get some more revenue because the internship will be licensed, so there should be some licensing revenue from that activities.

Law schools will probably retool to offer the adult education from option 3 along with becoming very competitive with the internships they manage. Those will probably also fill some staffing vacancies in public legal agencies.

The 6 month internship for graduates doesn't likely change much except to allow BigLaw to start billing their new associates quicker. It usually takes at least that long to get barred after graduation. See Volokh Conspiracy

Its impact could be felt on "Access to Law" as the bar exam appears to reduce the available work force of attorneys by about 16%. Id.