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Applicants with foreign legal education who are not admitted to practice law in any U.S. or foreign jurisdiction may still qualify to take the California Bar Exam by following the steps below. Please see rule 4.30 of the Rules of the State Bar.
California lawyers can meet the legal education requirement in different ways. Most receive a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from law schools registered by the State Bar (California-accredited) or approved by the American Bar Association (ABA). But there are other ways to get a legal education.
Foreign Admitted Attorneys. If you are fully admitted to the practice of law (without any restrictions) in a country outside of the U.S., you may be eligible to take the California bar exam without additional legal education. To get started with the Office of Admissions, you must:
If you are a foreign attorney, you will need to undertake the following steps: Register with the California Bar as an attorney applicant; Provide evidence of admission and good standing in your home jurisdiction – this involves providing the bar with certificates of admission and good standing from your home jurisdiction.
New York, California, Texas, Alabama, and Virginia are some of the states that let foreign law graduates sit for the bar exam. In this instance, foreign-educated attorneys must begin the process by having the American Bar Association (ABA) evaluate their law degrees.
California is an attractive state for many because it is one of the few states where you can sit for the bar without having passed through law school or an LLM in the state. For example, you can sit as a “foreign attorney” applicant, if you show that you are a member in good standing in a foreign jurisdiction. This makes things easier for ...
Becoming licensed as a foreign-educated applicant. Special admissions for out-of-state and foreign attorneys to practice law on a limited basis in California. information for attorneys already licensed in another state, jurisdiction.
