July 4, 2008

N.H. Allows Law Students to Demonstrate Court Skills in Lieu of Bar Exam

By KATHERINE MANGAN

When New Hampshire's 13 newest lawyers were sworn in to the state bar in May, the ceremony took place a day before they actually graduated from law school.

This speedy swearing-in as officers of the court was part of an unorthodox program at the state's only law school, Franklin Pierce Law Center. And while their classmates and thousands of other law-school graduates nationwide will spend two or three days in July sweating over state bar exams, the first class of Daniel Webster

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