Document Type
Article
Abstract
As the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recently celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the origins of the State Board of Law Examiners, it is useful to examine how the board came about in the early twentieth century. Pennsylvania had a long history of local county control over admission to the bar, and it was during the reform period that Pennsylvania joined with many other states to create a state board to oversee admission to its Supreme Court and tried to regulate admission to the local bars. This article will review chiefly the eighteenth and nineteenth century background to admission to the bar. It will then examine how the Pennsylvania Bar Association in its first meetings in 1895 created a committee on legal education to raise the standards for admission to the bar, and how it took seven years before it could obtain approval of its goals from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Repository Citation
Fishman, J. (2005). The Establishment Of The Pennsylvania State Board Of Law Examiners, 1895-1902. Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, 76 (2). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/181