Admission to practice law in Switzerland takes several years. The candidate needs to obtain an undergraduate and a graduate law degree from a Swiss university, which can take five years. In order to become a lawyer, candidates must train for at least one year in Swiss law firms and tribunals, and they must also pass a bar examination on theoretical and practical aspects of the law. Switzerland-native Emmanuel Grand, some- what of an iconoclast, took the route less traveled, though no less rigorous.
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