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State Bar & Bar Associations,
Legal Marketing

Sep. 9, 2020

Provisional license program promises more than it can deliver

California’s provisional license program promises more than it can deliver. The problems range from practical challenges to systemic unfairness.

Susan Smith Bakhshian

Director of Bar Programs
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

Email: susan.bakhshian@LLS.edu

California's provisional license program promises more than it can deliver. The problems range from practical challenges to systemic unfairness.

The practical challenges are plentiful. The public comment period that ends Sept. 15 is during the most intense time of studying for the bar exam, which remains scheduled for early October. The very lawyers who are intended to benefit from this program have exactly no time to devote to comm...

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