TexasCHLforum.com

Any system left to the states will have differences. Any system left to the states overseen by the Feds will have anomalies. Any system left entirely to the Feds will be inefficient and an anomaly.

Every state requires a lawyer to graduate from law school, not necessarily in that state. Harvard grads can take the bar in CA, TX, AZ, etc. UT law grads can take a bar exam anywhere they chose. You have to be admitted in the state to practice before the courts of that state. Some bar exams are easier than others, apparently.

To be a lawyer employed by the US government, you have to be admitted somewhere. So, you take the District of Columbia bar exam, reputedly from what I hear, the easiest of all. Why risk taking and flunking the CA bar exam, supposedly one of the toughest? Once you are admitted to a bar anywhere , and have some experience, you can often be admitted in other states without taking that state's bar exam... not all, but many. One attorney I worked with has been admitted in several states now, AZ ,TX, CO without, as I understand it, taking exams in some of those states. A former partner left CA many years ago and moved to Oregon where he was admitted without taking their exam. It puts the onus on the lawyer to become competent and familiar with the laws. statutes and cases in that jurisdiction, which inevitably some take seriously, some do not.

Doctors who have been credentialed would have an easier time taking those skills and judgment from state to state.

Given the wide variation in laws in different states, national reciprocity would take some profound, and perhaps unwelcomed, adjustments.