Paul Burgoyne, Deputy Chief Counsel of the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, passed on to us the following description of the requirements an applicant to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1902 had to meet:

No person shall be registered as a student at law for the purpose of becoming entitled to admission to the Bar of the Supreme Court until he shall have satisfied the State Board of Law Examiners that he is of good moral character, and shall have passed a preliminary examination upon the following subjects: (1) English language and literature; (2) Outlines of universal history; (3) History of England and of the United States; (4) Arithmetic, algebra through quadratics, and plane geometry; (5) Modern geography; (6) The first four books of Caesar’s Commentaries, the first six books of the Aeneid, and the first four orations of Cicero against Cataline.[4]

All of a sudden the Multistate doesn’t look quite as daunting.

This is an article from the August 2010 edition of Attorney e-Newsletter published by the Discipline Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Click here to read more.