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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.

William Patton

Lecture in Law
USC Gould School of Law

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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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