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Originally Posted by DAII
Another excerpt from my communications with ILEX. It discusses how one becomes an EL.
"Before being admitted as a Fellow, members must have five years of “qualifying employment”... This essentially means that they need to have been working in legal practice for five years... In the UK, most legal activities can only be carried out by solicitors or their employees, therefore generally most Fellows will obtain their five years qualifying employment working in a solicitors firm."
Of course, this means one can legitimately become an EL without a law degree.
It is part of the Old World tradition.
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It was actually possible to do the same thing in some states until a few decades ago.