California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 3 — Professions and Vocations Generally, Chapter 4 — Attorneys, Article 4 — Admission to the Practice of Law, Section 6060.5

Neither the board, nor any committee authorized by it, shall require that applicants for admission to practice law in California pass different final bar examinations depending upon the manner or school in which they acquire their legal education.

This section shall not prohibit the board, or any committee authorized by it, from establishing a different bar examination for applicants who are admitted to practice before the highest court of another state or of any jurisdiction where the common law of England constitutes the basis of jurisprudence.

Notes

Prohibits the State Bar or its authorized committees from requiring different final bar examinations based on how or where an applicant obtained legal education. The rule allows a different examination for applicants already admitted before the highest court of another state or qualifying common-law jurisdiction.

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