Right, but the article is agrguing that these are artificial requirements designed to create a barrier to entry.
The results are that law school grads incurr enormous debt and then charge monster fees.
Also, the UPL laws grant a monopoly to that proffession even over small things that could easily be handled by the layman.
Sort of like if electriciians had such legal monopoly that you couldn't change someone else's light bulb . . . you would have to get a licensed electrician and pay union rates.
Realistically, 2 percent of all people applying to law school are genius or higher in IQ, I am sure that they, and many others, could take a comprehensive Bar Review course and pass the bar exam without law school.
If they can pass a proffessional licensing exam, why not let them apprentice somewhere and then practice law?
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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Right, law school is a professional program, like medicine or architecture - all of which also require undergraduate degrees.
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