Wisconsin is the only state retaining a "diploma privilege" for law students; any student graduating from the two in-state law schools (UW-Madison and Marquette) is allowed to practice law in this state without sitting for the bar exam.
Graduates from out of state, however, do have to take it.
An appeals court has reinstituted the lawsuit brought by out of state students claiming the law is unfair. Reinstituted not on merits, but because of a legal issue with the original judge's dismissal of the case (he probably graduated from UW-Madison or Marquette).
As someone who has had to take (and passed brilliantly, thank you) one of those study-for-six-months, regurgitate-everything-you've-learned, two-and-a-half-days-of-misery professional exams (CPA), my sympathy lies firmly with the out-of-state grads. Our law students need to just suck it up and take the exam. If the courses of study at the two schools are as rigorous as their supporters contend, it shouldn't be a problem.
If it is a problem for some of the grads, well, that's just fewer lawyers to shoot.
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