• @RustyEarthfire
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    33 hours ago

    The short answer is being admitted by the bar; we already trust them to certify humans.

    If for some reason I were arbiter, I would say a convincing record of doing actual legal work, vetted by existing lawyers. The legal profession already has a well-defined model of how non-lawyers can contribute to the work, so there is no need for a quantum leap up to being a lawyer.