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student shall have received credit for not less than twenty semester hours
in the Law School. Credit for office study will not be granted unless the
student complies with the following regulations: (a) At the beginning of
the clerkship, he must file a certificate by his preceptor stating the date on
which the clerkship began. (b) A like certificate showing the date of
completion of the clerkship must be filed at the completion of the period.
(c) A monthly report, signed by the student and endorsed by the preceptor,
showing the kind and amount of work assigned to the student during the
period of the report must also be filed.

A candidate for graduation who has obtained credit for the courses in
evidence, pleading, practice, office practice, and practice court, who has
obtained at least 82 credits with a weighted average of C, and who has a
residence of at least three years and three months in a law school of good
standing, having a three-year course, the last year of which must have
been in this School, will be relieved from the requirement of office clerkship.

Students completing the course with distinguished excellence a be
recommended for the degree with honor.

ADMISSION TO THE BAR

The statutes of the state provide that any resident graduate of the
Law Department of the University of Wisconsin shall be admitted to prac-
tice in all of the courts of this state by the Supreme Court upon the pres-
entation of his diploma, and may be admitted to the Supreme Court when
not in session by an order signed by one of the justices thereof and filed
with the clerk of said court. (R.S. Wis., sec. 256.28.)

Under this statute and a rule of the federal court, it is customary for
the graduating class, on motion of a member of the Faculty, to be admitted
to the Supreme Court of the state and to the district and circuit courts
of the United States immediately upon graduation. This entitles them to
admission to the bar of any court of record in Wisconsin and all federal
courts in the state.

THE ORDER OF THE COIF

The Order of the Coif is an honorary legal society having for its pur-
pose the encouragement of scholarship and the advancement of ethical
standards in the legal profession. Membership in it is dependent entirely
upon the attainment of high scholastic standing. The name of the society
is taken from the Order of Sergeants of the English bar. This Order is
now extinct, but during its day it represented a select group of lawyers
eminent for learning and professional attainments. The society has chap-
ters in most of the leading law schools of the country. The Wisconsin chap-
ter was established in 1907. Candidates for the law degree are elected to
membership during the last semester of their third year.

WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW

The Wisconsin Law Review was established in 1920 by authority of the
Regents. The Review appears quarterly, and deals primarily with ques-
tions in Wisconsin law and legal problems of particular interest to Wis-
consin lawyers. The Board of Editors consists of the law faculty and a
board of fourteen student editors selected from the student body. Eligi-
bility to the board is determined largely by scholastic standings.