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bar examination

American  
Or bar exam

noun

  1. a written examination to determine if one is qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction.


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Students receive a salary comparable to an entry-level position in public service or public interest and a stipend during study for the bar examination.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2022

School of Law, and has accepted an offer to work in the real estate transactional group at Kasowitz Benson Torres, a law firm in New York, following graduation and the bar examination.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2019

If you want to practice law today, you minimally have to graduate from college, then law school, and then pass a state bar examination.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2018

Last week, all across the country, tens of thousands of law school graduates endured an agonizing rite of passage: the bar examination.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2014

There was apparently a Merton prize fellowship in December on which his hopes were set, and the first part of his bar examination to read for, whether he got a fellowship or no.

From Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

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