In Re Investigation of the Conduct of the Examination for Admission to Practice Law

LANGDON, J., Concurring.

I concur in the conclusion reached by the court, but desire to state my view on an issue raised in many of the petitions and not herein considered. The rules regulating admission to practice law prohibit an applicant who has twice failed in the examination from taking the following examination; and further provide that upon three failures, the applicant must allow two examinations to intervene. The purpose of this rule is, no doubt, to. discourage unsuccessful applicants, but I am unable now to perceive its value or its reasonableness. A student who, after failure, engages in further study, should not, I believe, be prevented from presenting himself again for the examination. I am of the opinion that the rule should be modified to permit students to take examinations subsequent to failure, upon a showing of continuous additional study, satisfactory to the committee of bar examiners.