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“I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a casebook. It’s about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives — whether they can make a living and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes, and welcome in their own nation.”
President Obama, Los Angeles Times May 2, 2009 p.1 (Obama Says Empathy Key to Court Pick)
Feel welcome in your nation?
Alfriend v. State Bar of California (In Re California Rules of Court 9.45, 9.46, Senate Bill 1782 (2000) filed April 28, 2009 asks the California Supreme Court to revise Rules 9.45, 9.46, and adopt the ABA MJP Commissions’ recommendation for bar admission on motion for experienced attorneys (with minor modifications) and unite with the 39 other States that already have adopted bar admission on motion.
(See
Advocacy in Progress)
There is no reason other than monopoly protection for Rule 9.45 to disqualify legal services attorney representing the indigent after three years. (See
Advocacy in Progress)
 There is no reason other than monopoly protection for Rule 9.46 to treat registered in-house counsel as second class citizens and deny them the freedom to appear in California courtrooms when they are eligible to appear as counsel in every other State in our Union. (See
Advocacy in Progress)
The California Bar Exam for Experienced Attorneys:
21st Century Censorship and Monopoly Protection Via a 100% Subjective Test Nationally Respected Testing Experts Have Concluded Is Not a Valid or Reliable Measurement.
21st
Century Censorship and Monopoly Protection:
The Cognitive Science of Expertise and
Expert Performance Informs Licensing
Officials Are Less Able to Measure
Competence Than a Layman.
Write in and
ask the California Supreme Court to grant
review and join our more perfect Union.
Injustice in the justice system injures everyone. Join or help the NAAMJP. See our Membership Page. Our purpose is to eliminate State licensing tests for experienced attorneys who seek to travel interstate and to put an end to the separate but equal era for members of the bar. It is hard enough for businesses and lawyers competing in a 21st Century global world as it is without the government putting up licensing re-invent the wheel walls at every State boundary line.
Are you an experienced California licensed attorney that is automatically disqualified for admission on motion in another State because of California’s licensing wall? Join or help the NAAMJP bring the practice of law in our more perfect Union into the 21st Century. See our Membership Page.
Feel Welcome in California when it provides more privileges and immunities to foreign country lawyers than sister-state lawyers? Join or help the NAAMJP. See our Membership Page.
"He who looks upon a conflict between right and wrong, and does not help the right against the wrong, despises and insults his own nature, and invites the contempt of mankind." - Frederick Douglass
Our Directors
Joseph Robert Giannini has B.B.A.
from Temple University and a J.D. from
Temple University School of Law (1983). He
is a member in good standing of the bar of
the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and U.S.
Supreme Court, as well as numerous other
federal courts. He has attended Gerry
Spence’s Trial Lawyers College. He is a
member of the American Bar Association’s
Litigation Section and Legal Education and
Admissions. He testified before and
presented written argument to the ABA MJP
Commission hearing in San Diego. See “A
Nationwide Need for the Primacy of the First
Amendment Rights to Advocate, Associate, and
Petition in the New Millennium” at
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mjp/mjp-giannini_witness.html.
He has written numerous articles published
in legal newspapers calling for full
reciprocal bar admission. He spearheaded
legislation in California that was enacted
into law 99-0 in 2000 calling for full
reciprocal admission for experienced
sister-state attorneys, that was
subsequently, diluted to
provide only second class limited bar
admission privileges for corporate counsel
and attorneys working for qualified pro bono
organizations with the promise the issue would be re-visited in a few years.
 Jeffrey L. Russell is a graduate of the University of Akron School of Law (1974). He has 16 years experience as an Assistant United States Attorney having served as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Ohio (Cleveland), Southern District of Florida (Miami), Central District of California (Los Angeles), Northern District of California (San Francisco and San Jose ), and the Department of Justice Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. Russell has conducted 45 criminal trials in seven United States District Courts, and he has successfully argued appeals in the First, Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits. He is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Supreme Court of the United States, and many other federal courts. He testified before and presented written argument to the ABA MJP Commission hearing in San Diego. See
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mjp/mjp-russell_witness.html
Robert Bloom is a graduate of Northwestern and he holds a J.D. form New York University School of Law (1965). He is admitted to practice in New York, the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, and the Northern District of California. He has been counsel for defendant in numerous high profile criminal cases including Geronimo Pratt.
 Kenneth Owen is a graduate with Great Distinction, from Oakland College of Law. He has an L.L.M. with honors from Golden Gate University School of Law. He is a member of bar of the Arizona Supreme Court, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. He has authored, Environmental Justice Enforcement Requires Reassessment Under the Equal Protection Clause, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and Environmental Statutes. 30 Golden Gate University Law Review 379. Mr. Owens is an Instructor of Constitutional Law and Environmental Law at Oakland College of Law.
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