National conservative groups join local bar fight

Three conservative think tanks — one in Tennessee, the others from around the country — are backing an Argentine lawyer’s attempt to take the Tennessee Bar Exam.

The Washington, D.C.-based Cato Institute, Arizona-based Goldwater Institute and the Nashville-based Beacon Center of Tennessee have filed a request with the Tennessee Supreme Court to submit an amici curiae brief on behalf of Maximiliano Gabriel Gluzman, who was scheduled to take the February 2016 Tennessee Bar until the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners decided he could not. Gluzman had earned an LL.M. degree from Vanderbilt University with a 3.919 grade point average after practicing in his native Argentina.