Originally justified on public protection grounds, bar examinations have degenerated into professional puberty rites designed to limit admission to local lawyer tribes while protecting lawyer incomes.
As with mandatory continuing legal education, the exams pretend to guard the public against incompetent practitioners. But the current scheme chiefly profits service providers and bureaucratic overseers, who become stakeholders committed to maintaining the status quo.
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