Of the Committee of the American Bar Association on Standard Rules for Admission to the Bar. In 1911 the Committee of the American Bar Association. on Standard Rules for Admission to the Bar recommended the following provisions respecting uniform requirements for admission to the bar. These recommendations were incorporated without change in the 1912 report of this committee, and are here reprinted verbatim. A. Examinations for admission to the bar should be conducted in each state by a board appointed by the highest appellate court. B. A law diploma should not entitle the holder to admission to the bar without examination by this board. I. The candidate shall on admission be a citizen of the United States. II. He shall also be a citizen of the state in which he is applying for admission, or prove that it is his intention personally to maintain an office therein for the practice of the law. III. Character credentials on application for admission shall include the affidavits of three responsible citizens, two of whom shall be members of the bar, and the affidavits shall set forth how long a time, when, and under what circumstances those making the same have known the candidate. IV. The lawyer on admission shall be designated attorney and counsellor, and not merely attorney. V. Three years' practice in states having substantially equivalent requirements for admission to the bar shall be sufficient in the case of lawyers from other jurisdictions applying for admission on grounds of comity. VI. There is no necessity for the insertion in the rules of a reciprocal comity provision; that is, of a proviso prohibiting the admission of lawyers from other states on grounds of comity, unless the state from which the lawyer comes extends similar courtesies to lawyers from the bar of the state in which the candidate is applying for admission. VII. Students shall be officially registered at the commencement of their course of preparation for the bar, upon report of the state board as to fitness. The board's report shall be based upon its inspection of the candidate's credentials establishing that he has passed the required academic examination. The registration shall be with the clerk of the highest appellate court. A candidate removing from a jurisdiction. having similar standards for registration may have the registration transferred. Nunc pro tunc registration may be permitted according to the present New York practice, which allows such registration only when the candidate had the requisite education at the date as of which he desires to be registered, and in a case where there has been no laches on his part. VIII. No candidate shall be registered as a student at law until he shall have passed the entrance examination to the collegiate department of the State University of the candidate's state or of such college as may be approved by the State Board of Law Examiners, or an examination equivalent thereto conducted by authority of the state. IX. Proof of moral character shall be required as a prerequisite to registration. RECOMMENDATIONS OF AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. xiii X. Student candidates for admission to the bar, in order to be eligible for the examination for admission shall have studied either in an approved law school or bona fide served a regular clerkship in the office of a practicing attorney during the required period of preparation. XI. No student candidate shall be eligible for admission to the bar until he shall have devoted four years in preparing for call to the bar, either by the service of a four years' clerkship in an approved law office or three full years in an approved law school, followed by one year of clerkship in an approved law office; provided, however, that the fourth year may be passed in an approved law school in postgraduate work, including procedure and practice. XII. Candidates for admission shall present themselves prepared for examination in the following subjects: Constitutional law, including the constitutions of the United States and ...... (the candidate's state), equity, the law of real and personal property, evidence, decedents' estates, landlord and tenant, mortgages, contracts, partnership, corporations, crimes, torts, agency, sales, negotiable instruments, domestic relations, common law pleading and practice, federal and state practice, conflict of law, professional ethics, the federal statutes relating to the judiciary and to bankruptcy, and the development in......(the candidate's state) of the principles of the law, as exemplified by the decisions of its highest appellate court and by statutory enactments. XIII. Names of all candidates for admission should be published by the board for three days in succession, at least ten days before the examination, in a newspaper of general circulation throughout the state, and for four weeks in a law periodical, should there be one within the state jurisdiction. |