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Bar News - November 8, 2002

States Allowing Admission on Motion

THE FOLLOWING LIST indicates whether a state's admission rules provide for "admission on motion," defined as admission without additional testing for qualified lawyers with recent practice experience. (States requiring reciprocity are indicated in all capitals.)

In most states accepting admission on motion, attorneys must be in good standing in another state and have been in active practice for five of the past seven years. The data below was drawn from the Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements (2002 edition), published by the ABA-affiliated National Conference of Bar Examiners at www.ncbex.org/pub.htm.

State	Admission on Motion Allowed	State	Admission on Motion Allowed
Alabama ALASKA Arizona Arkansas California COLORADO CONNECTICUT Delaware Dist. Of Columbia Florida Georgia Hawaii IDAHO ILLINOIS Indiana Iowa Kansas KENTUCKY Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi MISSOURI	No* Yes No No No Yes Yes No Yes No No No* Yes* Yes Yes Yes No* Yes No No* No Yes Yes Yes No Yes	Montana Nebraska Nevada NEW HAMPSHIRE New Jersey New Mexico NEW YORK NORTH CAROLINA North Dakota Ohio OKLAHOMA OREGON PENNSYLVANIA Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING	No Yes No* YES No* No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No* Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

* Admission on motion is permitted in limited categories or only through a reciprocity agreement within a region (i.e. Idaho, Washington and Oregon).

Source: National Conference of Bar Examiners, combining information from Charts X and VIII.

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