David Wynn MILLER speaks out in 2012

[shikamaru]

Indeed in Colorado according to the constitution I can be a lawyer if I have a couple lawyers witness me "Learned in the Law". I meant no offense. The "rumor" would be that it took 200 years, meaning around 1976. The Administrative Acts were pretty complete among the States about 1969. That is why I called upon the R-word.

None taken.

There are the terms country lawyer, "reading law", and "admission to the bar" ......

There are also federal bar and state bar associations.

There are other bar associations as well including student bar organizations.

The first national bar association is the American Bar Association established in 1878.
The National Bar Association was originally formed by African-American attorneys because the ABA would not accept them. It was established in 1925

Bar and bench have some similarities, otherwise, bar is the whole body of lawyers of a given group.

You may find those terms useful.

In reading that book, A History of the American Bar, there was a federal bar in 1789 for the U.S. Supreme Court.

A national bar organization had not been established until the late 1880s.
Where there are a group of attorneys or a court, a bar may be established.