The Iowa Supreme Court is considering removing the bar examination as a requirement for bar admission for graduates of the two law schools in Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports. One of the arguments in favor of the elimination of the bar exam is that graduates wouldn't have to wait months in order to start working as a lawyer. One law-school official told the Register that, by his calculation, graduates would reduce their debt level by 30 percent by avoiding the delay of their entry into their profession as well as avoiding the need to borrow the costs of studying for the bar exam.
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