Legal Opinion
Teare v. Committee on Admissions
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 3, 1989No. 87-1037, 87-1392, 88-116 and 89-50PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Petitioners here are four resident alien attorneys, primarily educated in foreign law schools, who have been admitted to the bar of an American state within the past five years 1 and now seek admission without examination to the bar of the District of Columbia. All four petitioners passed the bar examination of the other jurisdiction with a Multistate Bar Examination (“MBE”) score of at least 133. Thus, they have met one of the requirements of our Rule 46(c)(3)(h) providing for admission without examination of recent admittees to the bars of other American…
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