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Eight Bar Exams, Anyone?

By G.

I won't bore you with why I was looking up information on how you get to be an attorney in Canada (it's actually related to a project I'm on), but I came upon this website which explained:

"Attaining a law degree in Canada requires three years of classroom study. Almost immediately upon graduation in Ontario, the Bar Admission course administered by the Law Society of Upper Canada begins. The first phase lasts a month and consists of workshops that focus on practical skills necessary to perform competently at articles [articling is apparently equivalent to clerking]. These workshops include legal drafting, interviewing clients, advocacy skills and ethics and professional responsibility. The second phase lasts twelve months. It is during this phase that you article at the firm. The third phase consists of further classroom study in eight general areas of substantive law. Each of the eight areas contains an examination component. One is required to pass each of the eight examinations in order to be called to the bar of Ontario."

That's just Ontario. Other Canadian states are probably different. But still... I don't feel so sorry for us Californians anymore.

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Full post as published by A Girl Walks Into a Bar (Exam) on November 14, 2005 (boomark / email).