Pennsylvania’s rule waiving the requirement that out-of-state lawyers take the bar exam in order to join the state’s bar only for those who come from a state that allows the same admission to Pennsylvania lawyers is constitutional, although not necessarily prudent, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Gerald Austin McHugh Jr. of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dissected each of the several constitutional challenges that the National Association for the Advancement of Multijurisdictional Practice, the NAAMJP for short, raised to Pennsylvania’s Rule 204 and rejected each of them.
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