by WSJ.com



About a year ago, we wrote about a lawsuit in which a Wisconsin lawyer named Christopher Wiesmueller had challenged the state’s so-called “diploma privilege.”

If you don’t know what the diploma privilege is, you haven’t taken the bar exam of any state. Because it invariably comes up when you’re studying for the bar — some smart-alecky know-it-all will tell you what it is: That graduates of the law schools at the University of Wisconsin and Marquette University don’t have to take the Wisconsin bar in order to practice in the Badger State. It hardly seems fair, you think, and you secretly hope that someone will sue because, well, your misery wants a little Wisconsin company.

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