State Bar & Bar Associations,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
May 14, 2021
State Bar is neglecting duty to ensure the MPRE protects public
The State Bar of California’s sale of its ethics examination to the National Conference of Bar Examiners in 1980 and its delegation of the administration of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination to the NCBE has had a few significant effects.





The State Bar of California's sale of its ethics examination to the National Conference of Bar Examiners in 1980 and its delegation of the administration of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination to the NCBE has had four significant effects: (1) the State Bar no longer meets its Business and Professions Code mandates to assure that the ethics test protects the public, is valid, or that it promotes diversity in the bar; (2) the State Bar no longer assur...
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