The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) denied a petitioner’s request for a “provisional law license” because no such thing exists in Massachusetts.
The petition was originally filed in Suffolk Superior Court. That court denied the petition and the matter went up to the SJC.
The SJC affirmed the lower court’s decision. After reciting the laws regulating admission to the bar, the SJC found,
Nothing therein authorizes a “provisional” law license. The petitioner apparently asks that he be permitted to bypass the requirements for admission to the practice of law and to have a “provisional” law license granted to him. There simply is no legal basis to grant such an extraordinary request.
The same petitioner had a similar case dismissed in 2023. In that case the petitioner
expressly sought a waiver of the provisions of [the bar admission rules] which concerns the requirement that a petitioner successfully complete the Massachusetts bar examination.
The full text of the SJC’s opinion is attached below.
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