Petition updateRequire all lawyers take the barRequire all lawyers take the bar exam
Kimberly HowellManitowoc, WI, United States
30 Sept 2024

This petition affects everybody in the United States It is recently came to my attention that Wisconsin appears to be the only state where you can graduate from law school and become a lawyer and bypass taking the bar exam.  That undermines the education that lawyers have received all over this country including Harvard and Princeton some of the more notably recognized schools suggesting that Wisconsin is a cut above the rest when it comes to the law degrees and that absolutely cannot go on like that it undermines every other college in the nation that teaches law.  The way the law is written it states that if you go to law school in Wisconsin you don't have to take the bar exam but if you go to law school anywhere else in the country even if you're going to practice in Wisconsin you have to take the bar exam if you into a different school outside in Wisconsin and that's simply is unfair and unjust.  Not to mention the amount of money that people spend on paying lawyers to think that Wisconsin lawyers can garner the same kind of pay hundreds of dollars per hour and never have to sit for a bar exam is unbelievable to me and that needs to change.  People should be admitted to the bar based on their confidence as a lawyer and the bar sets the high standard of recognizing such competence with a bar license and to be able to go to law school in Wisconsin for the sole purpose of bypassing the bar is inexcusable and unjust.  Any other school in the country You have to take the bar in order to practice in Wisconsin only Wisconsin law students don't have to take the bar and that is unfair unjust and undermines every other lawyer in the country therefore I'm asking everybody in this country to sign my petition

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