The graduates are reportedly seeking an expansion of Wisconsin's diploma privilege policy, which allows those who have received degrees from in-state schools to practice law without taking the bar examination.
that extended diploma privilege to graduates of law schools both in- and out-of-state in response to exam cancellations, requiring Utah State Bar applicants to undergo 360 hours of legal practice under the supervision of a licensed attorney as an interim alternative. Alaska has passed a similar order.
"We know that applicants invest several weeks and thousands of dollars preparing to take the bar exam," said Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Matthew B. Durrant in a statement when the order was passed."Because of the crisis, not only could we not guarantee that Utah could offer the bar examination safely, we could not tell applicants when they should start to invest the time and money to prepare for the exam.
An update from the National Conference of Bar Examiners on May 15 noted that Wisconsin, alongside about half of all U.S. states, hasits July bar exam. However, as states continue to monitor their respective outbreaks, the exam schedules could be subject to change. Law school graduates in Ohio petitioned the state's Supreme Court last month asking for an emergency adoption of diploma privilege, and graduates in New York did the same in a request to the State Bar Association.
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