Recommendations

Of the Committee on Legal Education of the American Bar Association Respecting Require

ments for Admission to the Bar.

In 1897 the Committee on Legal Education of the American Bar Association recommended the following provisions "as forming a consistent system that shall both protect the profession and guide the student."

Citizenship-Age-Character.

No one should be admitted to the bar unless he is of good moral character, is twenty-one years of age, and is a citizen of the state.

Registration.

Upon beginning professional study a student should register his name in the office of a clerk of a court of record or in a law school that is incorporated or is a department of an incorporated university.

Upon petition, the law examiners should relieve from the requirements as to registration a candidate whose law studies. began while he was not a citizen of the state; but they should not grant relief upon terms that would give such a candidate a preference over ordinary candidates.

General Education.

Prior to registration a student should prove that he has received at least the equivalent of a high school education, such proof being made by filing certificates or by passing examinations, as may be determined by the law examiners.

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RECOMMENDATIONS OF AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.

Term of Study.

A candidate should not be admitted to the bar until the end of three full calendar years of law study.

Board of Examiners.

In all parts of the state the requirements for admission to the bar should be uniform, and should be administered by a State Board of Law Examiners.

Law examiners should be appointed by the court of last resort, and should serve for three or more years, part of the number being appointed each year.

The law examiners should recommend an appropriate order of study, and should designate the statutes, leading cases, and practical forms with which students must become familiar, and in all other practicable ways should aid candidates to study in a systematic and useful manner.

Examination-Regulations-Scope, etc.

No candidate should be admitted to the bar without examination, except as hereinafter provided.

Law examinations should be held at such times and places as the court of last resort may see fit; due announcement being made as to times, places, and subjects.

Law examinations should consist chiefly of written answers to printed questions.

Law examinations should be chiefly devoted to solving and discussing legal problems similar to those arising in office practice and in litigation; and questions should not be so framed as to admit "yes" and "no" answers.

A candidate should be permitted, if he desires, to divide the law examination into two parts; the first part to cover the more elementary subjects and to be taken not earlier than one year after registration, and the second part to cover the