Foreign law school graduates must request an individual evaluation to determine legal education equivalency.  Graduates from foreign law schools may qualify to take the California bar exam if they obtain an LL.M. degree or complete an additional 1 year of law study at an ABA-approved law school that includes a certain number of credits in bar examination subjects.  Foreign law school graduates who are admitted to the active practice of law  and in good standing in their countries do not have to complete any additional law study to qualify to take the bar exam.