Virginia did not even require a clerkship - reading the law was all thatyou needed to do. Sit in an admitted attorney's office for five years reading cases and getting quizzed as the attorney saw fit. At the end of the five years the admitted attorney submitted a written statement that they considered you knowlegable about the law. Judge read the statement and issued an order saying you could practice law in the Commonwealth. (Sometimes the judge specified a specialization area, but technically that is unconstitutional restraint of trade. An attorney has an ethical and fuduciary obligation to his client, but there is nothing that says the first case accepted after passing the bar cannot be a death penalty appeal. (attorney was later sabtioned for over-reaching).
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