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Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission.
The 1870 law provided that graduates of this department should be entitled to admission to the bar upon their certificate of graduation—that is, their law degree. It was offered to encourage future lawyers to get a formal legal education instead of simply " reading law ," which was the typical legal training of the time.
In June 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law that required lawyers seeking admission on motion to be permanent residents of the state. [9] In Supreme Court of Virginia v. Friedman, Myrna E. Friedman was admitted to the Illinois Bar by bar examination in 1977 and admitted to the District of Columbia Bar by reciprocity in 1980. [9]
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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