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Well, that didn’t take long. Just hours after I posted about the "Final 7” jurisdictions that had yet to decide whether to adopt the NextGen bar exam, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued an order adopting the Legacy Uniform Bar Examination beginning in July 2026, with a transition to the NextGen UBE in July 2028. So, yes, my earlier post (" South Carolina Is In, So What About the Final 7 ") aged quickly. But in another sense, it aged pretty well. Wisconsin was one of the juri

South Carolina is officially in. With its announcement yesterday that it will begin administering the NextGen UBE in July 2028, South Carolina becomes the 49th jurisdiction to have already committed to the new exam. That leaves just seven jurisdictions still on the sidelines. And that’s really the story now. This is no longer about whether the NextGen UBE will become the dominant bar exam. It already has. The question now is what these remaining jurisdictions are signaling

For years, the Uniform Bar Examination portability pitch was simple: take the exam in one UBE jurisdiction place, transfer an eligible score to another UBE jurisdiction. The NextGen UBE transition is turning that simple idea into a more complicated planning problem, especially during the July 2026 through February 2028 window when some jurisdictions will be administering the NextGen UBE and others will still be offering the Legacy UBE. Recently, the landscape has started to c

The Ohio Court Court, in its recently released Report & Recommendations of the NextGen Advisory Committee ,  raised concerns about...

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The National Conference of Bar Examiners made a few surprising announcements yesterday about the development and implementation of the...

The National Conference of Bar Examiners recently published its preliminary Content Scope Outlines for the next generation of the bar...

Read the cover story to the April 2021 issue of DICTA, the monthly publication of the Knoxville Bar Association. In the article, I...