The Milwaukee Jounal Sentinel has an interesting article about the "diploma privilege" in Wisconsin. Graduates of the state's two law schools do not have to take the bar exam to become members of the bar in Wisconsin. West Virginia used to have the same system (as Chief Justice Larry Starcher says in the article), but the Supreme Court struck it down back in the 1980s, well before I went to law school (sadly). I had no idea that it was still in effect anywhere else.
Monday, August 09, 2004
The Diploma Privilege Lives
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I'd bet that this practice would not stand up to an equal protection challenge. Wonder why no one has taken a shot at it yet...
I think the reason the WVSC cited in doing away with it was equal protection. Maybe the WI rule hasn't been challenged because nobody doing the challenging would really benefit, directly, at least. They'd still have to take the test.
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