Should Arizona let certain legal services be performed by someone without a law degree? A proposal is calling for letting people with one year of law school represent clients in court on a criminal charge, from traffic infractions to homicide.

An Arizona Supreme Court administrator has suggested that the state’s two law schools offer advanced legal one-year education to graduate students so, in the end, they can take on clients.

As reported by Capitol News Service, students would need to take courses specifically related to criminal law, graduate with a B or better average and pass appropriate license exams. They would be granted a degree in Master of Legal Studies.

They would first have to work under the supervision of an actual licensed attorney for some period before they could pract

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