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Perspective

May 14, 2015

Bring the uniform bar to the left coast

California should follow New York's lead and adopt the Uniform Bar Exam. By Steven Berenson


By Steven Berenson


Last week, New York announced that it would scrap its separate bar examination for
admission to practice law and adopt the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) offered by the National
Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). In doing so, New York became the 16th state to
adopt the UBE, all in the last five years, since Missouri became the first to do so
in 2011.


Despite this...

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