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If becoming a lawyer no longer requires proving what you
know, what does the profession really stand for?
Gavin Tighe and Stephen Thiele take on the Law Society of
Ontario's proposal to scrap bar exams in favor of a training
course, arguing that removing substantive testing undermines both
public protection and the meaning of being called to the
bar.
Drawing on their own experiences in law school and practice,
they explore how legal education has changed, why baseline legal
knowledge is essential, and how lowering standards risks public
confidence in the profession.
They discuss the concerns about competency, mentorship, AI
misuse, and an increasingly saturated legal market, ultimately
questioning whether a profession without rigorous gate-keeping can
still claim legitimacy as a learned profession.
