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Interestingly, Louisiana is very different from the rest of the US. It is part of the reason why it is so much more corrupt. Louisiana, as a former French colony, has the Napoleonic code as its basis of law, not English common law as you find in all the other 49 states.
If you pass the bar in the Louisiana, you cannot practice law anywhere else. Equally, if you pass the bar in any other state you are able to practice law in any of the other 48 states, except for Louisiana.
An awkward anomaly, a bit like the City of London: a strange fiefdom unto itself.
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Equally, if you pass the bar in any other state you are able to practice law in any of the other 48 states, except for Louisiana.
Iirc most states have accepted the uniform bar examination protocol, which effectively means that one bar exam can be enough to practice in another state (if the receiving state doesn’t have higher requirements). But the regulation is set by each state and several have limitations on out-of-state attorneys, so it’s not quite as simple as passing the bar in one state and you can practice anywhere.
Louisiana is indeed the outlier.
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Also there own patois of french.
Muc-ed-off
lynx
Here's a story for a movie if ever there was one
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/09/new-orleans-law-firms-staging-accidents-settlements