Application of Brewer

DIMOND, Justice.

At the time that Joseph J. Brewer made application for admission to the Alaska Bar Association, the Alaska Bar Act provided that one was eligible for admission to the Alaska Bar without examination if, in addition to meeting other requirements, the applicant had passed a bar examination of another state or the District of Columbia and had been actively employed in Alaska by a law firm or by the state or federal government in work of a legal nature for at least three consecutive years, and if this court determined that it was in the best interests of the legal profession that…