37-61-204. Qualifications, examination, and admission. Each applicant for admission as an attorney and counselor must produce satisfactory testimonials of good moral character and a certificate of one or more reputable counselors at law that he has been engaged in the study of law for 2 successive years prior to the making of such application and undergo a strict examination as to his qualifications by any one or more of the justices of the supreme court. The form and manner of the examination shall be as the justices may from time to time determine. However, a diploma from the university of Montana-Missoula law school or other evidence of having completed the 3-year course in law of that school entitles the holder to a license to practice law in all the courts of this state, subject to the right of the chief justice of the supreme court to order an examination as in ordinary cases of applicants without such diploma or evidence.

     History: En. Sec. 391, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6382, Rev. C. 1907; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 18, L. 1915; re-en. Sec. 8937, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 276; re-en. Sec. 8937, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 35, Ch. 101, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 93-2002; amd. sec. 36, Ch. 308, L. 1995.