Law school and bar exam in different states?

I've read that the Arizona state bar exam does not require law school. Are there any other states like this?

• Also if one were to pass the state bar in Arizona without a law degree would that be able to transfer to another state without a law degree? How does bar license transfering work between states with different requirements?

• Answer:

  I believe California is the only state that allows persons to prepare for the Bar using alternatives to the traditional law school. California allows for home study or correspondence courses (one of which is, I believe, on-line), and tutelage by a lawyer in a law office. There are prescribed requirements for both. The correspondence school must keep all papers, etc. Both methods require the student to take and pass the California First Year Law Students Exam. (Which is also required of students at non-ABA accredited law schools). Both methods usually take a minimum of four years. The Bar may have numbers of how many start the programs. I can tell you that the number who finish and take the Bar is very very small, maybe three or four correspondence students a year, and maybe one who went the apprentice route every five or six years. The number who pass the Bar is nearly nil. One correspondence student passes about every three or four years. The rest just take the Bar over and over and over. Each state's reciprocity with any other state is based on individual laws passed by each state. In general, however, most states will not grant reciprocity to an attorney who went to a non-ABA accredited law school (or didn't go to law school at all)