{"id":144248,"date":"2026-02-17T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=144248"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:32:50","slug":"aba-committee-urges-acceptance-of-alternative-pathways-to-licensure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/02\/17\/aba-committee-urges-acceptance-of-alternative-pathways-to-licensure\/","title":{"rendered":"ABA Committee Urges Acceptance of Alternative Pathways to Licensure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Standards Committee reviewed Standard 316 in light of the recent developments that several U.S. jurisdictions have created alternative pathways to attorney licensure and suggested changes for the council to review.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/947609771\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a title=\"Add to FaceBook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/947609771\/law\/legal-news,https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Faa%2Ff2%2F6dd94ea44b56adecd4179f45ea02%2Famerican-bar-association-washington-dc-office-8826-jpg767x505-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Stumble This\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Post to X.com\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>The Standards Committee reviewed Standard 316 in light of the recent developments that several U.S. jurisdictions have created alternative pathways to attorney licensure and suggested changes for the council to review.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/947609771\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a title=\"Add to FaceBook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/947609771\/law\/legal-news,https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Faa%2Ff2%2F6dd94ea44b56adecd4179f45ea02%2Famerican-bar-association-washington-dc-office-8826-jpg767x505-1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Stumble This\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Post to X.com\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/947609771\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Standards Committee reviewed Standard 316 in light of the recent developments that several U.S. jurisdictions have created alternative pathways to attorney licensure and suggested changes for the council to review. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Standards Committee reviewed Standard 316 in light of the recent developments that several U.S. jurisdictions have created alternative pathways to attorney licensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}