State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Education
Aug. 7, 2020
Dear Blue Ribbon Commission: Eliminate the one-day Attorney Examination
Does the California State Bar really believe that an attorney who has been representing clients in another state for four years will be less competent to represent Californians than recent law school grads who, though they may have passed the full two-day California bar exam, have never represented a client anywhere?
Benjamin R. Delson
Of Counsel
Granovsky & Sundaresh PLLC
Benjamin is an attorney licensed to practice law in New York and Ohio, and is currently studying for the California bar exam.
This past March, just as Gov. Gavin Newsom issued his first statewide stay-at-home order, my wife and I learned that we needed to move to Sacramento. We were living in Cleveland at the time, where I was an employment lawyer and where my wife was finishing medical school. We had known there was a chance my wife would match into a residency out-of-state, but moving to California in the midst of a pandemic was not what we had in mind.
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