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The Maine State Bar Association (MSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of Maine. The Maine State Bar Association was formally created by an act of the Maine Legislature on March 6, 1891 "for the purpose of promoting the interests of the legal profession and of instituting legal reforms." The first meeting was held in the State ...
In 1871, the first meeting of lawyers from across Kentucky was held in Louisville and created a voluntary association. In 1934 the Kentucky General Assembly passed an act creating an all-inclusive bar association which authorized the Court of Appeals (now Supreme Court) to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations defining the practice of law and to establish a code of professional ...
The U.S. state of New York was the last state using the code for many years, long after all other states–except California and Maine–had adopted the Model Rules. [7] On December 17, 2008, the administrative committee of the New York courts announced that it had adopted a heavily modified version of the Model Rules, effective April 1, 2009.
A great many organizations offer CLE programs, including most or all state bar associations. Uniquely, the Kentucky Bar Association offers a two-day program known as Kentucky Law Update, conducted in at least seven locations throughout the state, that allows its members to satisfy their annual CLE requirement without a registration fee. [2]
The first bar examination in what is now the United States was administered in oral form in the Delaware Colony in 1783. [5] From the late 18th to the late 19th centuries, bar examinations were generally oral and administered after a period of study under a lawyer or judge (a practice called "reading the law").
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New York 9 Thomas J. Semmes: 1886–1887 Louisiana 10 George G. Wright: 1887–1888 Iowa former Senator 11 David Dudley Field: 1888–1889 New York 12 Henry Hitchcock: 1889–1890 Missouri American Bar Association co-founder [3] 13 Simeon E. Baldwin: 1890–1891 Connecticut 14 John Forrest Dillon: 1891–1892 New York 15 John Randolph Tucker ...