A U.K. lawyer who received an advanced degree at Emory Law School won’t be able to take the Georgia bar exam after the state’s highest court denied her request to waive certain educational requirements.
The Board of Bar Examiners didn’t abuse its discretion when it found that the woman didn’t prove there was good cause to waive the requirements, the Georgia Supreme Court said Tuesday.
One requirement in order for foreign-educated lawyers to take the Georgia bar exam is to provide a transcript showing they have an LLM. from an American Bar Association-approved law school, the court said.
She wasn’t ...
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