"California law students are requesting temporary emergency licensure to practice law, in lieu of the traditional examinations.
The petition has garnered support from law school deans, but the state bar is more apprehensive." …
Probably better than allowing “take-at-home” bar exams.
The State of California has a special problem with respect to granting new law school graduates “diploma privileges” (limited privilege to practice law in the state without taking & passing the California state bar exam). That problem is the law schools in California which are not ABA approved, yet permit graduates to sit for the California state bar exam. These non-ABA approved law schools tend to have low passage rates for the California state bar, yet a “diploma privilege” would give all recent grads a limited right to practice law in California.