Brooklyn federal court should consider revamping the requirement that attorneys who seek to practice in New York’s federal courts get a veteran lawyer to vouch for them after at least one year’s acquaintance, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein of the Eastern District of New York has said in a new opinion.

Weinstein made that recommendation in dicta, but it did not have an impact on his decision to dismiss a suit challenging on broad constitutional grounds the admission requirements to the bar in the district.