Multi state bar exams

Sheri123

Does anyone know which states offer the multi state bar exam?

I've also heard that some states offer reciprocity but I'm not sure which ones & if you have to be practicing law for a while or not to do that.

Thank you in advance for any information.

jdawg113

Do you mean the Uniform Bar Exam? http://www.ncbex.org/exams/ube/

stepharizona

@Sheri123 said:
Does anyone know which states offer the multi state bar exam?

This offers the most comprehensive information: http://www.ncbex.org/pubs/bar-admissions-guide/2016/index.html#p=21

Original File: http://www.ncbex.org/assets/Uploads/UBE-and-Testing-Maps/2016-AdoptionoftheUBE-withotherNCBEtests-020116.pdf

Here is the list: http://www.ncbex.org/exams/ube/

As of Feb 2016 these are the states that DO take the UBE

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Colorado
District of Columbia
Idaho
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Mexico
New York
North Dakota
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wyoming

Sheri123

Awesome, have to check out the links when I get home. Thanks so much. I hadn't heard it called the uniform bar exam but maybe that's the same thing. Thanks @jdawg113 & @stepharizona!

stepharizona

I did look up the MBE, same site and it is called the Multistate Bar Examination, but thought you mean the UBE....

http://www.ncbex.org/exams/mbe/

and it is administered in every state except Louisiana, it says on the site that:

"The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) is a six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice examination developed by NCBE and administered by user jurisdictions as part of the bar examination on the last Wednesday in February and the last Wednesday in July of each year.

The MBE is only one of a number of measures that a board of bar examiners may use in determining competence to practice. Each jurisdiction determines its own policy with regard to the relative weight given to the MBE and other scores. The MBE is a component of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE). Jurisdictions that administer the UBE weight the MBE component 50%."