This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, February 18th, 2020.

I'm Caleb Brown.

In many states, you meet the requirements to be a licensed attorney and then you get to

practice law.

In Wisconsin, however, you're also forced to be a member of the state's integrated bar.

And in Wisconsin, the integrated bar is a lobbying powerhouse.

So how does a lawyer get out of the requirement that they fund political speech that they don't

like?

The Cato Institute has authored a brief in a case filed by Cato

adjunct scholar Andrew Grossman. The case is Jar Chow v State Barr of Wisconsin.

Cato's Trevor Burris and Andrew Grossman discuss the case.

The Janus case was a case about essentially paying dues to an organization that you don't want anything to do with.

In this case, union and a public sector worker.

Bar associations are a little bit different.

They are, help me out here.

They're worse.

They are worse.

So, but to what extent are bar associations private?

I mean, they have a public responsibility.

Sure.

So everybody agrees that the state can regulate who practices law and their ethical obligations

and things of that nature.

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