Opinion ID: 1345636
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Heading: Exposure to U.S. Law

Text: We have also considered the extent to which an applicant had been exposed to U.S. law. In granting a waiver to a Canadian-educated attorney in In re Application of Collins-Bazant, 254 Neb. 614, 578 N.W.2d 38 (1998), we noted the applicant's efforts to become acquainted with U.S. and Nebraska law. The Commission may consider similar aspects of a foreign-educated applicant's background when making a waiver recommendation to this court. The applicant in In re Application of Gluckselig, 269 Neb. 995, 697 N.W.2d 686 (2005), while enrolled in a law school in the Czech Republic, took several international law classes focusing in part on U.S. law, and he also completed a 112-page thesis which involved a comprehensive comparison of the European Union and U.S. laws on the topic of choice-of-law and forum clauses in Internet-based transactions. Further, while still enrolled in the foreign law school, the applicant studied at the University of Nebraska College of Law, earning 19 credit hours. In addition to his academic credentials, the applicant had spent several months as a clerk for two law firms in Lincoln. He had also sat for and passed the New York bar examination, and he had taken and passed the Multi-state Professional Responsibility Examination. Thus, our de novo review of the record indicated that the applicant had received significant exposure to U.S. law. Id. at 1002, 697 N.W.2d at 692.