Admission to the bar in the United States

degree you would take pre-law classes throughout to the 4-year span. You'd take classes such as history, English, political science and criminal justice. Second you would take the Law School Admissions Test or the LSAT’s. Third you would the get your law degree. Finally you would then take the Multistate Bar Examination and if it pass you become a licensed lawyer.…

In 1936, civil movements started to be made for gains in the United States regarding Civil Rights. The first case was “Murray v. Pearson”. Donald Gaines Murray made an application to attend to the University of Maryland School of Law on January 24, 1935, but his application was rejected because The University of Maryland did not accept to admit black students. However, in 1936, the Court of Appeals decided that black people must be accepted because there wasn’t any other law schools in Maryland…

Criminal Defense Lawyer According to the American Bar Association, there were roughly 1,300,705 lawyers in the United States in 2015. Some examples of lawyers are environmental lawyers, real estate law attorneys, and family lawyers. A criminal lawyer helps prove to the judge that the person that is accused of being guilty is not guilty. Most lawyers focus on specifically one type, but some lawyers focus on a variety of types. There are many lawyers but every individual lawyer has their own…

Mental Health, given my unique ability to speak and culturally understand the devastating and stigmatizing impact mental illness has for the children of minorities, in addition to the fact that Latinos are one of the fastest growing demographics in the United…

universities across the nation as a means to recruit minority students whose predecessors have been subject to racial discrimination within the United States. These practices have been put into place to “even-out” the overwhelmingly off-balance number of white-success-stories to minority-success-stories ratio. They’ve been implemented, according to former United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra O’Conner, in hopes that “[in] 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be…

the United States of America in 1988, when the Civil Liberties Act was passed by the Congress, requiring federal government to pay the Japanese-Americans that were interned in time of the Second World War. Critics of the Japanese-American reparations movement, argued that reparations was paid to the wrong people, and suggested that African-Americans were the rightful candidate for reparations for the effect of slavery on the descendants of the enslaved. Slavery, which was legal in the United…

The United States currently has one of the largest prison populations in the world. According to statistics provided by the Bureau of Statistics 1 out of every 108 adults are were incarcerated in some form of facility at the end of 2012 (Glaze, 2013). Despite having one of the largest prison populations in the world, the United States is still suffering from high levels of criminal activity. The ways, in which this country is currently dealing with crime, do not appear to be all that helpful and…

such as robbery, theft, trespass, burglary, or rape. Nonetheless, the matter does not often end there, as there are proper inquiries that must be made in time to ensure that people are convicted only of crimes they have induced themselves. In the United States, the right of the accused entails the right to due process, a fair trial, and privacy. The following continuation is a discussion on the exclusionary rule, double jeopardy, and the Miranda rights concepts. a. Exclusionary Rule The…

Government Each state has its own government that govern the people living in that particular state. The State’s government makes ballot initiatives etc. to help the maintain a democracy in the state. The Federal government, on the other hand, makes laws, treaties etc. to help the nation as a whole. However, the State’s government differs a little when compared to the Federal government. The Federal government takes into account the whole nation—United States in this case—when governing. The…

The Brown vs. Board of Education case of 1954 laid the official foundation to the long construction of racial equality in public schools. The ruling officially stated that all public schools in the United States must be desegregated. Although the decision did not exactly combine black and white students evenly, it leaned the Constitution more on the side of racial equality. America has progressed tremendously in the 21st century, compared to the horrendous amount of racism that occurred in the…