In bygone years, aspiring lawyers who wished to save the money and time of going to law school, or who were simply so gifted that they didn’t need it, could do as future President Abraham Lincoln did and just “read for the Bar.”
The test itself was understood to be the ultimate measure of one’s competency, regardless of background, financial circumstances and other factors that might inhibit a budding legal career.
Now, however, woke leftists complain the expectations of competency themselves are inhibiting some from realizing their potential dreams—and indeed that such demands are a pernicious form of systemic racism used to exclude minorities from enjoying the benefits of wealth and power that often accompany competency in a profession.
The Washington state Supreme Court last week ruled that potential lawyers do not have to take […]
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