Weinstein v. West Virginia Board of Law Examiners

MILLER, Justice:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, the relator, Bernice B. Weinstein, seeks to compel the West Virginia Board of Law Examiners (Board) to admit her to practice in this state pursuant to our reciprocity rule, Rule 4.0(b) of the West Virginia Rules for Admission to the Practice of Law. This *159rule allows an attorney to be admitted to practice in West Virginia without taking our written bar examination if the applicant has been “lawfully engaged in the active practice of law [in any other state] for five (5) years next preceding his or her application.”1 We conclude that the…