I've always felt if you can pass a notoriously hard Bar Examination, like the CA Bar; you should be allowed to practice law.
(Maybe require a few ethics's classes, after a passing grade?)
(Maybe require a few ethics's classes, after a passing grade?)
"He had to quit going to high school because of health problems, and his parents sent him to live on his uncle Lucius Bunton's ranch in Presidio County, Texas for several months.[3] When he returned home, Johnson had ambitions to become a teacher; however, the Texas hill country at that time had no state-accredited high schools and no colleges. He learned that he could get a state-issued teaching certificate without finishing high school by passing a state examination.[3] In 1896, with the thirteen textbooks he needed to study for the exam, he moved to his retired grandfather's nearby home to study in quiet.[4]"
It's well-known to be a harder bar exam (I have taken both it and NY, for an anecdotal data point).
[1]see NCBE Bar Admission Guide http://www.ncbex.org/publications/bar-admissions-guide/