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A Brief History of the Requirements to Join the Louisiana Bar: 1835

Change was frequent

1835

"Rule

It is ordered that no person applying for admission as an attorney and Counsellor at law, shall be received as such until three Judicial days have elapsed from and after the date of the application and until his name as a candidate for admission shall have been published for a like time, at the foot of the trial list posted in the Clerk's office, such application to be made through the Clerk."

[December 8, 1935, Book 5, 1835-1839, 132]

This is taken from the Supreme Court Minute Books, as reported by Warren M. Billings in his book The Historic Rules of the Supreme Court of Louisiana 1813-1879.