In re an Application for Admission to the Bar of the Commonwealth

The petitioner, Carol Lynn Conragan, an attorney licensed in 1996 to practice law in the District of Columbia (D.C.), appeals a decision of the Board of Bar Examiners (board) denying her application for admission to practice law in Massachusetts without taking the regular law examination as permitted by S.J.C. Rule 3:01, § 6, as amended, 433 Mass. 1301 (2001) (admissions on motion).1 Her motion for review was referred to a single justice of this court who reserved and reported the matter for decision by the full court. The issue before the board was whether the petitioner, for at least *1011five…