re: Louisiana Supreme Court waives bar exam for 2020 applicants

Did not even narrow it down to 2020 Graduates, it is all applicants apparently

You could have failed the bar 3 times prior or been on your 5th and final chance to pass and get in on a technicality if you applied again in 2020

Also I did not read this so I could be making this up

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Did not even narrow it down to 2020 Graduates, it is all applicants apparently

You could have failed the bar 3 times prior or been on your 5th and final chance to pass and get in on a technicality if you applied again in 2020

Also I did not read this so I could be making this up

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Yeah, no

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Did not even narrow it down to 2020 Graduates, it is all applicants apparently

You could have failed the bar 3 times prior or been on your 5th and final chance to pass and get in on a technicality if you applied again in 2020

Also I did not read this so I could be making this up

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c. Not previously sat for any bar examination in any state or territory in the United States and will not be taking the bar examination in any state or territory in
the United States in 2020

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c. Not previously sat for any bar examination in any state or territory in the United States and will not be taking the bar examination in any state or territory in
the United States in 2020

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Also I did not read this so I could be making this up

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Hey now, I left myself a way to crawfish out. Free from liability for any statments preceding the bolded terms. Do not fall victim to the same issue I did

appears we all have an issue with reading this fine day

The dissent by Crain is brutal

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The dissent by Crain is brutal

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Yep. But he makes some good points, e.g.:

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Without testing for minimal competency, the majority today grants
“emergency” admission, or licenses to practice law, to over 500 new lawyers holding
law degrees from both in-state and out-of-state law schools. As noted by my
colleague, Justice Genovese, where is the “emergency” to admit over 500 new
lawyers to practice law without testing minimal competency? If anything, removing
the sole competency filter for admission to the practice of law will create an
emergency, not eliminate one. The bar examination acts to protect the public from
basic incompetency. Are our counterparts in the medical and accounting professions
handing out licenses to practice medicine and certificates of public accounting
without testing competency? We owe a responsibility to the public that an individual
certified as a legal professional be actually qualified for the certification.

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And:

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The inequities and inconsistencies spawned by this decision are too many to
number. Why is taking the bar examination not safe for those “qualified candidates,”
but safe enough for those who are not “qualified candidates”? The latter will be
tested in August and October. Are they not affected by the pandemic? Why should
a person who took the bar previously, but failed due to unfortunate events that
undermined their preparation, now be denied a “diploma privilege” when we know
at least twenty percent of these 2020 applicants would have also failed? As applied,
the order rendered by the majority is unfair and results in disparate and random
treatment– the type of injustice the judicial system should seek to prevent and
remedy. Equity does not demand that a select few applicants be admitted, but that
all be tested.

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25 hours of CLE and a mentorship program

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I honestly like the idea of a legit mentorship program

Not sure when CLE needs to be complete but there is essentially no in-person CLE for the remainder of 2020

25 hours of online CLE is an entirely meaningless "at least we did something" concession

So these people will never have to take the exam? They get admitted with the hour requirement. What kind of bullshite is that? Feel bad for those took it and passed.

Edit: I probably did not read that right.

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of these newly minted "lawyers" face retribution in the hiring process. As a CPA I wouldn't want to hire a "CPA" that didn't actually pass the exam.

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I guess that NOLA public defender can get her old job back now

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