I've watched with shame and growing anger as the bar examiners (and many licensed attorneys) defend having bar exams or postponing exams over the diploma privilege. As I've fought my personal battle with cancer over the past 2.5 years, I have tried to look harder for ...

positives in bad situations. My take:
1) It has been hard to elicit passion from new lawyers for reforming the legal industry. This issue may have ignited that passion. As these fighters join the bar--and they will--I look forward to seeing them drive reform throughout ...

all areas (legal ed, courts, licensure, practices, etc., etc.).
2) Many of the bar applicants have vowed they will never forget how they have been treated. Good. Use that to understand how many clients feel about their interactions with lawyers. Borrowing from others: ...

Law is too important to be left to lawyers. Help expand the circle so that those without law degrees and from diverse areas of society become part of regulatory governing bodies.
3) As society re-examines how we staff and fund resources to address problems, the soon- ...

to-be members of the bar may also recognize that many "legal" problems are not, in fact, legal problems (just as the failure to adopt diploma privilege is not, at core, a legal problem). Use your newly acquired appreciation of where problems sit to help us match ...

the proper resource with a problem. That is, we need do away with outdated notions of the "unauthorized practice of law" and replace them with proper regulation of various problem solvers (including, but not limited to, lawyers).