North Dakota Law Review/Volume 1/Number 5/Higher Bar Admission Standards

HIGHER BAR ADMISSION STANDARDS

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Higher standards are being adopted from time to time as a result of the activities of the American Bar Association for higher bar admission requirements. At the present time eighteen States have no requirements, fifteen require a certain amount of general education before beginning the study of Law, and thirteen require High School education as a preliminary.

The more advanced requirements are represented by the following: One year of College in Colorado and Illinois; two years of College in Kansas, Illinois (after July 1926), and West Virginia.

Five States accept six months of training in a law office as a preliminary to admission, and Louisiana requires registration in addition.

Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Washington have fixed the requirements for study in a law office at four years, in addition to which Ohio requires the filing of an affidavit showing two hundred hours of actual instruction each year.