Document Type
Article
Media Type
Text
Abstract
This article provides a comprehensive statistical review of bar applications from forty eight states and questions the usefulness of the applications, in their current form, in determining one's fitness to practice law. In addition to compiling this empirical data, the article focuses on four major areas of inquiry on most applications including mental illness, substance abuse, moral indiscretions and criminal behavior. Based on this inquiry and data, the author advances a number of recommendations to be adopted by state bar examiners. He concludes that the guiding light should place the burden on bar examiners to prove unfitness, and that only such questions that examiners can demonstrate are relevant to the ability to practice law are appropriate.
First Page
331
Last Page
372
Publication Date
5-1-1995
Department
Other
ISSN
0734-1490
Language
eng
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Recommended Citation
Stone, Donald H.
(1995)
"The Bar Admission Process, Gatekeeper or Big Brother: An Empirical Study,"
Northern Illinois University Law Review: Vol. 15:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
Suggested Citation
Donald H. Stone, The Bar Admission Process, Gatekeeper or Big Brother: An Empirical Study, 15 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 331 (1995).
