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The article presents several Supreme Court orders in Wisconsin. These include Order 08-11 on Adverse Determination of Bar Applicant's Character and Fitness, Order 08-13 on Conditional Admission to the Bar, and Order 09-01A on the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information. The article also shows the dates of the public hearing of the said orders and the effectivity of its amended rules.

The author focuses on elimination of bar exams or no administration of bar exams in Wisconsin. He urges that law school accreditations are sufficient to analyze knowledge of lawyers, working of the American Bar Association (ABA) to audit quality of the American law schools and economic burden created by bar exams on law schools.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in January-February 2015 issue alongwith author's response "The Practice of Law from A to Z: A View From an Old Guy" by Mike Guerin and "Is it Relevant Today? Does the Bar Exam Ensure Knowledge of Wisconsin Law?" by Michael LoCoco.

The author presents his views on adoption of Wisconsin's diploma privilege model for lawyers to be admitted to the bar without taking a bar examination in kansas. It informs about the admission of the University of Wisconsin and Marquette law graduates into Wisconsin Supreme Court's bar . It also discusses three reasons for adoption of diploma privilege such as the costs associated with the bar exam, rules of professional conduct and retests of the topics and skills learned in law schools.

The article reports that the Board of Bar Examiners in Wisconsin have made changes to the appendices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules regarding admission to the bar in 2011. The revised versions of Supreme Court Rules 31 and 40 are provided which include topics such as the Wisconsin bar exam, hearings for bar applicants, and review of bar applications by the Board.

The article presents the Supreme Court orders Order 10-04 or Establishing Standards and Procedures for Permanent Revocation and Order 08-11 or Adverse Determinations of Bar Applicants' Character and Fitness in Wisconsin. The court explains that justifying revocation assuming lawyer as a threat requires judgment stating that an individual lacks the capacity to mature, reform or reestablish the required character and fitness. It adopts the amended petition for Order 08-11 with modifications.

The article discusses issues related to a campaign by State Bar of Wisconsin President Steven Levine to end the practice of allowing graduates of the state's two law schools to be admitted to practice without having to take the bar examination. In an article in the "Wisconsin Lawyer," he likened the operation of the in-state diploma privilege to the separate but equal doctrine held unconstitutional in 1954 by the U.S. Supreme Court in its school desegregation ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.

The article discusses the petition to create Supreme Court Rule 40.145, filed by the Board of Bar Examiners in Wisconsin, which is intended to waive fees for veterans entering law practice. Topics mentioned include the scope of the law, the history of the petition and its treatment in court, and the date on which the court order implementing the new rule takes effect.