Chuck Bryant

And it's up to this agency that's associated with the highest court in the state, usually the state Supreme Court.

Yeah, exactly.

In most jurisdictions, if you just to take the bar exam, you have to have graduated from an accredited law school from the American Bar Association, which usually means a three year program.

Some states, though, are like, hey, if you're not if you didn't go to an accredited school, that's fine.

We'll still let you take the bar.

If you are in Washington state, Virginia, Vermont or California.

they allow a legal apprenticeship to swap out law school, which I think is super kind of cool.

Yeah.

And Maine and New York let you sub out like a year or two of that law school for an apprenticeship.

Yeah, for sure, which is pretty neat.

It's old school.

It's a throwback kind of thing.

Yeah.

If you want to take the bar exam, most of the time it's given in February and July.

Those are your two options.

And then you're going to pay some money for it.

And there's a lot of ways you're going to pay money for it just to register to take it.

The bar exam itself, it can be a few hundred dollars.

It can be more than a thousand dollars, depending on your state and how greedy they are.

Yeah.