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Downwinder
(12,869 posts)to pay Bar Association dues? And be members of the Bar.
elleng
(131,051 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Closed shop?
elleng
(131,051 posts)without which one may not practice law/represent clients before a state's courts.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)elleng
(131,051 posts)Many law schools are accredited by the American Bar Association.
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/accreditation.html
Re: Law schools:
A total of 205 institutions are ABA-approved: 204 confer the first degree in law (the J.D. degree); the other ABA approved school is the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, which offers an officer's resident graduate course, a specialized program beyond the first degree in law. Four of the 205 law schools are provisionally approved.
Provisionally Approved Law Schools (+):
+Belmont University College of Law
+University of La Verne College of Law
+Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
+University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth
Law Schools on Probation (**):
None
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_education/resources/aba_approved_law_schools.html
Some are not ABA accredited.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/2012/12/17/weigh-the-benefits-disadvantages-of-attending-a-non-aba-law-school
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)otherwise the ABA will have a national monopoly.
Still looks like a closed shop. AFL-CIO wet dream.
elleng
(131,051 posts)but not a monopoly, which means 'the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.' Each state+ hands out its approval of individuals, to join the guild, differently.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)Other than to be explicitly exempted.
elleng
(131,051 posts)Lawyers work for millions of employers, including for themselves, and must be 'certified' as suitable to work, via their states' Bar exam and process. They may or may not be required to pay fees to their state's Bar certifier, to maintain their eligibility to practice law.
If you're suggesting that lawyers would not be required to so pay, if 'right to work' law were adopted by their states, many might be glad of that except that they/we need someone to tell clients and employers that we are, in fact, suitably educated and informed, and legitimate, like doctors.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)As did the labor movement. They were labor qualifications before they were governmental designations.
midnight
(26,624 posts)considered thuggish?
elleng
(131,051 posts)Only Stephen Colbert might have said it better!!!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)June KAR
(1 post)nice one!