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When I watched the Perry Mason series on HBO a couple years ago, I was a bit surprised when Perry went from being an investigator working for a lawyer to being
by dhosek 4y ago
When I watched the Perry Mason series on HBO a couple years ago, I was a bit surprised when Perry went from being an investigator working for a lawyer to being a lawyer himself without going to law school and was somewhat surprised (although in retrospect, it should have been less surprising) that law school as such is a very recent invention (although it was hard to find the exact date(s) of the transition). I have a vague notion that in some states you don’t need a law degree to sit for the bar exam (or at least that was the case a few years ago).
- toast0 4y ago> I have a vague notion that in some states you don’t need a law degree to sit for the bar exam (or at least that was the case a few years ago). It looks like that's still the case, including in California, where Mr. Mason practices. Of course, word on the street is California's bar exam is the toughest in the nation.
- selectodude 4y agothey got rid of open Bar exams in California pretty recently, too. Need to spend four years working as an apprentice in an attorney's office now.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoMeanwhile lawyer services are often ruinously expensive for the lower rungs of society. Allowing lawyers to control the supply of lawyers is a big mistake.