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The promising land

Israel bar is still over protecting its lawyers with unfair requirements for foreign lawyers who wants to pass the transfer test. Indeed it is not at all a "transfer test", the bar requires 9 written exams in order to be only allowed to pass the israeli bar exam! 9 exams+1 year trainee+ Israeli exam (the same than israelis!)= around 2-3 years. For an Israeli who wants to pass a transfer test in almost any other country it would take him few months and it is a real transfer test, not the same than locals of course. This is a pure injustice. question: how many israelis could pass for instance the real Paris bar exam? answer almost 0%. Israel market is an over protected market, israeli bar acts in this way, it is time to change and the new rules are far from being enough. Tell me why do they expect that the lawyer should have worked at least 5 years in his country?! Does the israeli bar means that foreign diplomas are not good enough? I invite all foreign lawyers who wants to work in Israel to wake up and require from israeli bar the right to work after the 9 exams and the trainee without having to pass the israeli bar exam. Reciprocity between foreign bar exams and Israeli bar now.

7-Aug-2012

11:26 am