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North Carolina Becomes 30th UBE Jurisdiction

This news seemed to have flown under the radar. On November 17 (the Friday before Thanksgiving), the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners updated its website with the following announcement:

Please be advised that the Rules Governing the Admission to Practice Law in the State of North Carolina will change as of June 30, 2018. These new Rules provide for the adoption of the Uniform Bar Examination in North Carolina, and apply to all applications for admission filed in North Carolina on or after June 30, 2018.

The first UBE administration in the Tar Heel state will be February 2019. The UBE is coordinated by the National Conference of Bar Examiners and is composed of the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE), two Multistate Performance Test (MPT) tasks, and the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE). It is uniformly administered, graded, and scored by user jurisdictions and results in a portable score that can be transferred to other UBE jurisdictions.

The announcement of the adoption of the UBE isn't surprising. The question wasn't "if," but rather "when." After all, In October 2016, the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners recommended that North Carolina begin administering the Uniform Bar Examination. But that recommendation needed the approval of the State Bar Council and the Supreme Court of North Carolina to effect. Now, it looks like the necessary approval took place.

North Carolina, according to the NCBE's website, is now the 30th jurisdiction to have adopted the UBE (38 states, the District of Columbus, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

The list of UBE jurisdictions are:

February 2011

Missouri

North Dakota

July 2011

Alabama

February 2012

Colorado

Idaho

July 2012

Arizona

February 2013

Nebraska

Utah

July 2013

Montana

Washington

Wyoming

February 2014

Minnesota

New Hampshire

July 2014

Alaska

February 2016

Iowa

Kansas

New Mexico

July 2016

District of Columbia

New York

Vermont

February 2017

Connecticut

New Jersey

South Carolina

July 2017

Maine

Oregon

Virgin Islands

West Virginia

July 2018

Massachusetts

February 2019

North Carolina

To Be Announced

Maryland

So, who's next?

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