@Ray Kaufman
You are decades behind in your info/facts.
Law schools did not require a Bachelor’s Degree for entry, as before 1962, The Standard law degree issued by American law schools was an LLB (Bachelor of Law).
The horde of JFK appointed Harvard Law grads appointed to Federal positions complained that the Civil Service would only pay them for a Bachelor Degree education. JFK imposed on Harvard to switch to a J.D. (Juris Doctor/Doctor of Law) so their graduates would be paid at the highest government rate. The entire American Law School community followed suit.
I had a number of Professors in Law School and came up against lawyers in practice that had LLBs issued in the 1940s and 50s.
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In NY, it was possible to still take the Bar Exam without attending Law School, having read the law and apprenticing for X years in a law firm. That is what FDR did in the 19teens. I had a paralegal in our NYC office in the early 1980s follow that route. I then hired her as an associate.
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Law is the only discipline in America where a Masters Degree outranks a Doctoral degree.
Dating back to the LLB, mentioned above, post graduate work in Law earns an LLM.
I earned an LLM in Estate Law after holding a JD