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Can you take the bar exam in California CA with just an ABA accredited LLM but no JD or foreign law degree?

Per official rules from:
http://calbar.ca.gov/calbar/pdfs/rule...
Rule 4.26 Legal education
General applicants for the California Bar Examination must
(A) be graduates of law schools approved by the American Bar Association or accredited by the Committee; or
(B) demonstrate that in accordance with these rules they have
(1) studied law diligently and in good faith for at least four years in a law school registered with the Committee; in a law office; in a judge’s chambers; or by some combination of these methods; or
(2) met the requirements of these rules for legal education in a foreign state or country; and
(C) have passed or established exemption from the First-Year Law Students’ Examination.

Can the “graduates of law schools approved by the American Bar Association” be satisfied by an ABA accredited LLM program, or does is it implicitly refer to an ABA-accredited JD program? (Ignore the issue of whether one can get an LLM w/o a JD…)

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Anonymous #
8 months, 1 week ago (1 minute after post)

i am a lawyer too but not in california. why not clarify it with aba itself

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 1 week ago (4 minutes after post)

thnks — the ABA actually doesn’t determine the answer to this q, the CA bar does (in fact, much to the ABA’s dismay, in CA one can even do correspondence courses and then take the bar).

I’m also going to ask the CA entity, but it takes ridiculous amounts of time for them to respond to basic questions, let alone more unusual ones…

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Anonymous #
8 months, 1 week ago (13 minutes after post)

would a simple phone call/ email to ca not suffice?

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Anonymous #
8 months, 1 week ago (15 minutes after post)

but in my humble opinion, there is no qualification as to the requirement w/not it is jd/llm. as long as it is approved by aba. so if it does not qualify, we must not likewise do so. so i guess, it satisfies the requirements

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 1 week ago (18 minutes after post)

I take it that you’ve never tried to call / email the CA Bar Association on substantive topics? (Not trying to be snarky — it’s very nontrivial to get them to comment on such issues.)

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8 months, 1 week ago (26 minutes after post)

yes. cause i am not from the us lol!
why the hell would i bother calling them?!

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