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Washington state SC rules the bar exam is racist to prospective lawyers
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:35 pm
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:35 pm
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The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that the bar exam is no longer a requirement for prospective lawyers. On Friday, The Bar Licensure Task Force explained that the bar is “minimally effective for ensuring competency” and “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys.”
According to The Spokesman-Review, after appointing the task force in 2020 to assess “disproportionate impacts on examinees of color and first-generation examinees,” the courts agreed to substitute the exam with “experiential-learning alternatives.”
The task force was made up of over 50 groups of representatives and “examined the character and fitness process for lawyer licensure.” Although students have historically interned under another lawyer before becoming attorneys, they still had to pass the bar to get their license to practice.
Under the new guidelines, lawyers can forgo the bar, first administered in Delaware in 1783, by participating in a six-month apprenticeship and finishing three courses. Additionally, students must complete a minimum of three hours of legal work per week and 12 skills credits as licensed legal interns, garnering up to 500 hours of law experience before graduation to complete their portfolios.
The eligibility to become a licensed law practitioner will also extend to law clerks even if they haven’t finished law school by completing 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern and “completing standardized educational materials and benchmarks under the guidance of a mentoring attorney.”
“These recommendations come from a diverse body of lawyers in private and public practice, academics, and researchers who contributed immense insight, counterpoints and research to get us where we are today,” explained task force chair and Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, in a statement.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:36 pm to Water
When everything is racist nothing is racist.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:37 pm to Water
Are there even enough black folks in Washington to make it worth virtue signaling?
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:39 pm to Water
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“experiential-learning alternatives.”
Good luck idiots lol
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:39 pm to Water
What’s next? They’re just going to let anyone be pilots or surgeons?
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:39 pm to Water
Those three male justices take it up the arse
This post was edited on 3/18/24 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:40 pm to Philzilla
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Are there even enough black folks in Washington to make it worth virtue signaling?
No, which is why these states go through with this shite. It will have no impact on anything, but then they’ll point at the South and call us racist for not following their bullshite.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:45 pm to Water
You mean POC struggle with that part where we find out what they know?
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:45 pm to Water
Client: so what do you think I should do?
DEI "lawyer" - I don't know. What do you think?
Client - I don't know that's why I hired you.
DEI Lawyer - right, here's my bill. Thanks.
DEI "lawyer" - I don't know. What do you think?
Client - I don't know that's why I hired you.
DEI Lawyer - right, here's my bill. Thanks.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:45 pm to Water
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Under the new guidelines, lawyers can forgo the bar, first administered in Delaware in 1783, by participating in a six-month apprenticeship and finishing three courses. Additionally, students must complete a minimum of three hours of legal work per week and 12 skills credits as licensed legal interns, garnering up to 500 hours of law experience before graduation to complete their portfolios.
The eligibility to become a licensed law practitioner will also extend to law clerks even if they haven’t finished law school by completing 500 hours of work as a licensed legal intern and “completing standardized educational materials and benchmarks under the guidance of a mentoring attorney.”
This isn't so bad actually.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:51 pm to Water
If you cam't pass rhe bar after 3 years in law school you have no business practicing law
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:54 pm to PeteRose
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What’s next? They’re just going to let anyone be pilots or surgeons?
Heading in this direction. Psychotic illogic.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:55 pm to cable
Delete
This post was edited on 3/18/24 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 3/18/24 at 7:56 pm to Tortious
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This isn't so bad actually
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The eligibility to become a licensed law practitioner will also extend to law clerks even if they haven’t finished law school
:bruh:
Posted on 3/18/24 at 8:02 pm to Water
The definition of racism is the BELIEF that one’s race is superior to others. A test DOES NOT HAVE BELIEFS!!!!!!!
Posted on 3/18/24 at 8:03 pm to Water
It’s time to revisit the Evergreen Saga
This is where anyone should start when they wonder where this country is going and how it got there.
This is where anyone should start when they wonder where this country is going and how it got there.
Posted on 3/18/24 at 8:06 pm to PeteRose
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What’s next? They’re just going to let anyone be pilots or surgeons?
You joke but...
Posted on 3/18/24 at 8:23 pm to Water
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Task Force explained that the bar is “minimally effective for ensuring competency” and “disproportionally and unnecessarily blocks marginalized groups from becoming practicing attorneys.”
So it’s an easy test that people from these groups still can’t pass?
The answer is to make the exam harder to ensure competency, not to get rid of it to ensure incompetency.
I’ve never taken the Washington bar, but the Louisiana bar was a joke when I took it. It still had a 55-65% passage rate, and that’s amongst people who went to schools that spend three years teaching the bar. If you can’t pass the bar you are (A) fricking stupid and (B) incapable of even the most basic performance under pressure. You should not be a lawyer.
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