How to become an Attorney in the US (w/ a foreign degree)

  become an Attorney in the US (w/ a foreign degree

Hello, everyone. I am back with another post.

Today I will be talking about how a foreign graduate can take the US.
Border exam.
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I am Janella.
I am a licensed attorney in DC, Maryland, and New York.
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I graduated college from St.
Louis University, Philippines.
And I studied law school here in the United States.
So what I'll be talking about today is mostly based on experience and research.
Let's dive right in.
To be an attorney in the United States,
you do not need to be a citizen, but you do need to pass the Bore exam.
There's no one specific bore exam in the United States.
Unlike the Philippines, each of the 50 states has their own
requirements, depending on where you want to practice.

But today I want to focus on the states that are foreign graduatefriendly,
meaning the easiest way you can become an attorney, in my opinion.
First, let's determine your eligibility to take the bar.
There are two major groups that people fall into.
First group are those who graduated from a four year college from a foreign
university, and you want to go to law school in the United States.
You can take the bar after graduating from an Aba accredited law school.
The second group is if you graduated

from a four year college and also law school from a foreign university.

The first category or group was the route that I took.
I will talk more about that journey
on my next blog, because today I want to focus
on the second group since the Philippine bar results are coming out in a few days,
so this might be helpful for those of you trying to figure out what to do next.
There are two states that are foreign graduate friendly.
It's California and New York.
Although there are minor distinctions,
you do not need to pass the bar in the foreign country for you to be
eligible to take the California and New York bar.
These two states notably embrace diversity, but I would caution you
that both are said to be the hardest bar exam in the United States.
There are other states, such as DC.
Texas that require you to just take a few
classes for you to be eligible to take the bar.

So let's assume that you decided to take the New York bar.
First thing you need to do is have your foreign degree evaluated.
You can do this by signing up through the New York Board of Bar Examiners.
The New York Board of Bar Examiners are the only people that can determine whether
you are eligible to take the bar without an LLM or additional classes.

Foreign degree evaluation will require you to ask your foreign university to send
your transcript directly to the New York Board of Bar Examiners.
It takes about six months for the Board of Bar Examiners to determine whether your
degree is sufficient for you to sit for the bar without additional classes.
The bar is held twice a year,
one in July and one in February, so you need to plan ahead.
A fun fact regarding this is that in the US.
Law school is only three years,
as opposed to the Philippines, where it is four years.

This also means that if you graduated law
school in the Philippines, you probably took more credit than a US.
Law school graduate.
Let's further assume that the New York Board of Bar Examiners
determined that you are eligible to sit for the bar.
Then what will you do next?
You need either self study or enroll in a Bore prep course.
Then you need to take the bar exam.
After this bar exam, you actually need to take two more mini exams.
One is the Npre, which is the multistate professional responsibility exam.
This is essentially a multiplechoice ethics exam.

A lot of people say that this is an easier
exam than the actual bar exam, which I think is subjective.
If you watched my video regarding passing the Bore exam on the first try,
I talked about taking the MPR, I believe three times because I failed this twice.
You should still study for the MPR.
Nonetheless.

The third and final exam is the New York Law exam.

This is definitely easier than the actual board exam because the New York Law exam
is a 50 item multiple choice question test.
It is an open book exam, and it lasts about 2 hours.
So again, you need to take three tests.
One is the uniform bar exam.
The second is the Npre, which is the ethics exam.
Third is the New York Law exam.
Once you pass all three, all you need to do is wait for your oath.
That is it.
From a quick overview of how to be an attorney in the United States.
On my next Vlog, I will discuss the first category and the DC bar.

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