In Re: Petition to Amend the Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to Admissions to the Bar and the Rules Regulating…

Summary

The Court declined to adopt emergency rules allowing July 2020 bar-examination registrants to obtain admission without passing the bar examination, subject to six months of supervised practice. It held that graduation from an accredited law school and supervised practice would not sufficiently establish the knowledge and skill required before admission to unrestricted practice under the Court’s constitutional responsibility. The Court instead relied on the scheduled online examination and temporary supervised-practice program to mitigate the examination delays.