As thousands of would-be attorneys anxiously await their scores after slogging through last week’s bar exam, law grads in Wisconsin are already beginning their careers as full-fledged attorneys, blithely unburdened by the need to pass a test.
The only state in the nation that still offers “diploma privilege,” Wisconsin allows people who graduated from either of the state’s two law schools — University of Wisconsin Law School or Marquette University Law School – to skip the bar, provided they successfully completed specific law school classes.