IN RE YANNI

No. 23260.

697 N.W.2d 394 (2005)

2005 SD 59

In the Matter of the Application of Amy YANNI for Review of the Decision of the Board of Bar Examiners (SDCL 16-16-16).

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided May 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel L. Jongeling, Rapid City, SD, for applicant, Yanni.

Jennifer K. Trucano, G. Verne Goodsell of Gunderson, Palmer, Goodsell & Nelson, L.L.P., Rapid City, SD, for intervenor, State Bar.

James D. Leach, Board of Bar Examiners, Rapid City, SD, and Craig M. Eichstadt, Board of Bar Examiners, Pierre, SD, for Board of Bar Examiners.


GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1.] Amy Yanni is an attorney licensed to practice law in both Minnesota and Massachusetts. Yanni applied for admission to the South Dakota Bar without examination under SDCL 16-16-12.1, using her Massachusetts bar membership and almost twenty years of practice to fulfill the requirements. The South Dakota Board of Bar Examiners denied her request. Yanni challenged the denial, and attempted to use her Minnesota bar membership and...

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