Current economic realities have made the legal profession incredibly mobile in recent years and state bar rules should not be too restrictive in allowing out-of-state lawyers to be admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, an attorney argued for his client before the state Supreme Court Tuesday.
“I never dreamed the practice of law would change the way it has, but it has,” Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney shareholder Robert S. Hawkins told the justices while arguing a Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners rule governing out-of-state attorney admissions into the bar was too strict.
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