Legal Group Fails to Revive Challenge to Bar Admission Rules

Lawyers for Fair Reciprocal Admissions failed to revive its challenge to the Ninth Circuit’s rules requiring attorneys seeking general admission to a district court to be a member of the state bar where that court is located.

The US Constitution doesn’t require that a lawyer admitted to the bar in one state be allowed to practice in another, and a state court’s admission determination is limited to that state, Judge Mark J. Bennett of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in a Friday opinion. LFRA also doesn’t assert that “any state’s bar admission alone specifically ...