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A Brief History of the Requirements to Join the Louisiana Bar: 1873

Change was frequent

1873 Act 29, concerning France, Germany, and England

Engraving of Eglise de la Sorbonne building in ParisIn 1873, the Legislature made an exception for those Americans who had studied at legal institutions in France, Germany, and England and been admitted to practice in the superior courts there, to be admitted to practice here in Louisiana.