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Norwegian legal profession is less focused on the court system as the only career path, and many lawyers work in the civil service, the corporate sector, organizations, academia or other sectors of society without becoming advocates; all lawyers enjoy high societal prestige on account of their professional qualification. All lawyers in Norway have the right to offer legal advice to clients, and all lawyers may appear in court with permission from the court regardless of whether they are advocates. A 2022 reform aimed at promoting innovation in the legal industry envisions legal services increasingly being offered by lawyers who are not advocates, and in cooperation with allied professions (e.g. accountants) and the technology sector.
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the best in their class at high school level, most law students receive the grades C or D. Accordingly C is considered a better than average grade at the
University of Oslo's law faculty, while D is considered a normal grade. Very few law students receive the grades A or B. This stands in contrast to other institutions or fields of study, where A and B may be more common grades. The law faculties share the exceptionally high admission requirements with the medical faculties. In medicine there is a strong tradition in Norway of considering all doctors as part of an educational elite and placing little emphasis on university-level grades due to the very high admission requirements, and this culture of emphasizing that all graduates are highly accomplished has also become more prevalent in the legal field as admission requirements to the law programme became extremely high.
283:, a title that designates a student on a professional law programme and that is directly linked to the former degree cand.jur., and are thus not generally referred to as "law students," but rather with specific titles denoting the specific programme, e.g. "bachelor's student in business law". Graduates may not give the impression of being lawyers, hold legal qualifications, offer legal advice or appear in court, and are not qualified for any of the jobs that law graduates have a monopoly on. It is a crime in Norway to use the title "lawyer" without being a graduate of the professional law programme at the three established universities.
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European Economic Area may also be admitted as trainee advocates under certain conditions. Due to the similarity of their legal systems as well as languages, foreign lawyers practising in Norway are mostly Danish or Swedish. Correspondingly, Norwegian lawyers may be licensed to practice in Denmark and Sweden. A Norwegian professional legal degree is the only degree that qualifies for the positions of judge and prosecutor, although there have been rare exceptions made for Danish and Swedish lawyers (for example
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