The New York State Bar Association wants the state court system to remove all questions about mental health history from the bar application.
The association’s House of Delegates voted Nov. 2 in Albany to adopt a report from a working group of attorneys recommending the step.
“The hard truth is that stigma around mental illness remains a significant barrier to treatment within the legal profession, and society at large,” bar association president and Greenberg Traurig shareholder Henry M. Greenberg said in a statement. “There is compelling evidence that mental health questions on bar applications are ineffective and unnecessary, and several ...
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