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number of states electing to delay the July bar exam in response to the coronavirus pandemic increases, so too have the calls for state bar associations to waive the exam requirement altogether. [1] Such an “emergency diploma privilege”would allow new graduates to practice law without first passing a state-administered bar examination. As the explanation goes, allowing a law degree to substitute for a bar exam this year would not only resolve current uncertainty over when bar exams can be safely administered (especially in harder-hit states like California and New York), but also allow these new attorneys to offer immediate legal assistance to their communities in a time of urgent need. I’m not so sure.  \nThe diploma privilege is not unprecedented. Early on, it was the norm in the United States, including California. [2] And although it largely died out as the legal and other professions grew more restrictive, diploma privilege lives on in Wisconsin and New Hampshire. In Wisconsin, a graduate of one of the states’ two law schools (University of Wisconsin Law School and Marquette University Law School) is permitted to practice law upon the school’s endorsement of their legal competence and the Board of Bar Examiners’ certification of their character and fitness to practice law. [3] New Hampshire’s “Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program”employs a slightly more rigorous approach. [4] Offered exclusively to University of New Hampshire School of Law students, participants may avoid taking the state’s bar examination after completing additional coursework and examinations during law school, including “a two-day assessment process, consisting of interviews, testing and simulations.”[5] But such time-consuming features are unlikely to meet the urgency of the moment.  \nRecent rumblings in the medical profession likewise suggest that emergency action in certain professions may be necessary to address the current crisis. In fact, several institutions, including Harvard Medical School and UCLA’s Geffen School of  \nMedicine, have already started offering early graduation options to students wishing to jumpstart their residencies. [6] Combined with other stopgap maneuvers, such as Massachusetts’ allowance of provisional 90-day limited licenses to practice medicine,[7] these measures promise to send much-needed reinforcements to the front lines of a pandemic in which there is a human cost for every moment lost.  \nYet for the legal profession to allow an entire class of graduates to skip the bar exam altogether scarcely seems a proportionate response. An emergency diploma privilege for 2020 law graduates takes an axe to a problem best addressed by a scalpel.  \nThere are various motives behind the calls for adopting a law diploma privilege this year:  \n Economic uncertainty (will a firm still hire me if I haven’t taken, much less passed, the bar exam?);  \n Temporal volatility (do we know when I will have a chance to take the bar exam?);  \n Perhaps a bit of the usual exam aversion (I just finished three years of law exams; do I really need to take another one under these circumstances?);  \n An eagerness, if not an outright need, to help those affected by the crisis (patients, consumers, immigrants, the unemployed, etc.) .  \nThough the first three reasons are undoubtedly prone to cause anxiety, only the fourth explains the medical profession’s decision to accelerate medical students’advancement to their awaiting residencies. Nobody is suggesting that the state medical boards would have adopted such measures absent the present pandemic. Indeed, the absence of similar action in 2008 suggests they wouldn’t.  \nIt seems appropriate, then, to ask just how much the first three reasons are motivating these calls for the legal profession to similarly permit students to skip their licensing exams. Quite a lot, I suspect.  \nOne indication can be found in the let","cbCaibDdCmtLSyzW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibDdCmtLSyzW","pdf",68908,"English","# Emergency diploma privileges and bar exam delays\n## Rationale for waiving the exam\n## Historical and current diploma privilege examples\n## Medical profession comparisons and their limits\n## Motives behind the legal profession proposals\n## Practical concerns about implementation","[{\"question\":\"What is an “emergency diploma privilege” proposed for 2020 law graduates?\",\"answer\":\"It would allow new graduates to practice law without first passing the state-administered bar examination.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the text argue that waiving the bar exam is a disproportionate response?\",\"answer\":\"It contends the legal profession’s exemption for an entire class of graduates does not match the nature of the problem as an effective, targeted fix would be more appropriate.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article compare the legal profession proposal to actions in medicine?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that medical institutions have offered early graduation options and provisional limited licenses, but argues the medical profession’s reasoning—mainly addressing urgency in the fourth motive—does not justify an equivalent legal licensing shortcut.\"}]","Emergency diploma privileges are not the solution to coronavirus-caused bar exam delays | PDF",1789960135,13]