Parks v. Board of Bar Examiners

¶ 1. Petitioner appeals from a Board of Bar Examiners’s decision that he does not qualify for admission to practice law in Vermont without examination. We affirm.

¶ 2. The principal question bn appeal is whether “at the time of application [petitioner was] actively engaged in the practice of law for five of the preceding ten years in one or more jurisdictions of the United States,” as required for admission without examination by the Rules of Admission to the Bar of the Vermont Supreme Court (Rules) § 7(a).1 The re*600cord discloses that petitioner graduated from law school and was admitted to the…