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HUBLOT Posted 14 years ago
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Bar card

Peters, a former lawyer who long ago gave up her bar card, has devised a unique legal vehicle to drive Honda into court — a small claims suit that could cost the company up to $10,000 in her case and every other individual case filed in the same manner.
http://news.yahoo.com/woman-takes-unique-road-sue-honda-over-mileage-084530601.html

What is a bar card? Is it a card that indicates that you are a lawyer?
  

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I suppose it is something like a driver's license - it is the state's authorization for you to practice law in that state. htm

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I suppose it is something like a driver's license - it is the state's authorization for you to practice law in that state.

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Actually I don't believe there is any such thing as a "bar card." The author is just being cute here, referring to a license to practice law as "bar card." The origin of this is the fact that lawyers licensed to practice law in a state are referred to as "members of the bar (association)."
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