NCBE Publishes Preliminary Content Scope Outlines for New Bar Exam
Next generation exam, slated for 2026 launch, will place greater emphasis on essential lawyering skills, decrease number of tested legal subjects; legal community encourage to comment on proposed subjects and skills. MADISON, WISCONSIN, March 24, 2022—A new bar exam, slated to debut in 2026, will test more skills and fewer subjects than its current incarnation. […]
NCBE Names New Chief Strategy and Operations Officer
Marilyn Wellington Will Lead Organization’s Development of Next Generation Bar Exam Starting in June MADISON, WISCONSIN, February 8, 2022—The National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today that Marilyn Wellington will join NCBE in June as its Chief Strategy and Operations Officer. Wellington, currently the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners, will […]
NCBE Condemns Threats to America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
MADISON, WISCONSIN, February 4, 2022—The National Conference of Bar Examiners condemns the ongoing threats to the students, faculty, and staff of America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). While no member of our society should ever be subject to such terrorism, these threats to the Black community, rooted as they are in this country’s history […]
Jeff Grove Joins the National Conference of Bar Examiners
MADISON, WISCONSIN, February 2, 2022—Jeff Grove has been named Senior NextGen Implementation and Process Manager for the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Grove will help guide NCBE’s development and implementation of the next generation of the bar exam. Prior to joining NCBE, Grove worked in the K–12 assessment industry for 20 years, serving as […]
Update on Status of February 2022 Bar Exam
MADISON, WISCONSIN, January 10, 2022—NCBE is actively supporting bar admission agencies and courts as they prepare to administer the February bar exam consistent with their local health restrictions and requirements. As of this date, we anticipate that most jurisdictions will be administering the bar exam in person on February 22 and 23. In the event […]
NCBE Releases National Mean for November MPRE
MADISON, WISCONSIN, December 10, 2021—The national mean scaled score for the November 2021 Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) was 97.5, the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) announced today. This represents an increase of about 0.5 points from the mean of 97.0 in November 2019 and a decrease of approximately 1.3 points from the smaller […]
