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Grad Of Two Law Schools, But No Undergrad, May Take Bar Exam

March 30, 2017

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overruled the Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners to allow a California lawyer to take the bar exam in its state. Caleb Alexander Harlin was homeschooled, and skipped college. He graduated cum laude from Oak Brook College of Law and Public Policy in California in 2009, but that school does not have ABA accreditation. Harlin passed the California bar on the first try, and is admitted to practice before four federal district courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. He then graduated from the Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2015, and was voted the most outstanding graduate in his class by that school’s faculty. The Oklahoma Board of Bar Examiners had blocked Harlin from taking the bar exam in Oklahoma because he had no undergraduate degree, but the state’s Supreme Court said that, because Harlin is a lawyer, he does not have to satisfy the same requirements required of law students to take the exam.

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