Kelly v. Utah State Bar

Chief Justice Durrant,

opinion of the Court:

Introduction

¶ 1 This case requires us to establish for the first time a standard for evaluating petitions for waiver of the admission rales set forth in the Rules Governing the Utah State Bar (the Utah Rules Governing Bar Admission). Petitioner James Kelly graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Toronto law school) in June 2000 and practiced law for over a decade in Massachusetts. He now asks us to waive rule 14-704(c)(5) of the Utah Rules Governing Bar Admission, which requires a graduate of a foreign law school to obtain additional…