Utah considers allowing law grads to choose apprenticeship rather than bar exam

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Utah considers permitting regulation grads to decide on apprenticeship somewhat than bar examination

By Debra Cassens Weiss

November 7, 2024, 1:21 pm CST

The Utah Supreme Court docket is searching for touch upon a proposal to permit regulation grads to grow to be legal professionals with out taking the bar examination.

The plan launched Monday provides regulation graduates two choices to acquire a regulation license: They will go the bar examination, or they will full “alternate path” necessities. Each choices additionally require a passing rating on the Multistate Skilled Accountability Examination.

Those that select the alternate path should have graduated from an ABA-accredited regulation faculty throughout the final 5 years, should have efficiently accomplished a number of listed regulation faculty programs, and should full 240 “supervised observe hours” beneath a supervising lawyer.

The Utah Supreme Court docket is inviting feedback by way of Dec. 19, Reuters stories. The state supreme courtroom acted in response to a 2023 proposal of its Bar Admissions Working Group.

One of many working group members is Catherine Bramble, a professor at Brigham Younger College’s regulation faculty. She instructed Reuters that she hopes that the alternate path program “could possibly be applied as quickly as subsequent summer time.”

Different states with apprenticeship pathways are Oregon, Washington and Arizona, in accordance with Reuters.

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