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The 1800’s legal education and licensing requirements pales in comparison when pitted against today’s academic and accrediting process for lawyers. Today’s curriculum demands more from the students. Scott Turow stated that his first year of law school left him mentally and physically exhausted (Neubauer & Meinhold, 2013). In sharp contrast, Abraham Lincoln believed that one could join the legal world by simply reading a few selected books. However, today anyone can become a lawyer as long as they meet the minimum requirement such as graduate from college, pass the LSAT and apply to law school (Neubauer & Meinhold, 2013). In contrast only the social elite were allowed to become lawyers in the 1800’s. Nevertheless both time periods offered night
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