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As a current Arizona Supreme Court Justice and a retired Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, both of us served to the Judicial Advisory Committee called to inform the development of the new examination, whose many recommendations were included in the final product.
We support the Nextgen exam as a rigorous, customer-focused evaluation of completely legal theory and lawying skills that also serve to facilitate license portability in the US-a long-term conservative priority.
Both our states have adopted a new bar examination, which will be first given in July 2026, and in our courts in July 2027. The two courts were fully in review processes, including the evaluation of theory and skill material in the examination, the results of the pilot and prototype tests and other relevant information.
Like all state high courts, our courts are responsible for accepting new lawyers in Arizona and Minnesota. That responsibility involves a duties to ensure that possible, to the extent, that only those who meet the standards of our states are licensed to practice the law.
Hum – and our colleagues from all over the country – Nextgen Bar took their responsibility seriously in evaluating the examination. Forty-one states and regions have now adopted it, from which potential lawyers have been tested in the 21st century.
The construction of the examination began with a novel idea, which is also a best practice in the license examination – the last writer of the exam, the National Conference of Bar examiners decided to ask more than 14,800 American lawyers to ask what subjects should be tested once in the examination. Those lawyers came from every part of America and every imaginative practice and employment, from rural areas to big cities, and those ideas helped shape the new exam.
Nor is this project hidden from the public. Since the establishment of the Nextgen Project in 2018, regular comprehensive information about the development and performance of the new examination was published. Even a cursory review of Nextgen website and related publications make it clear that this process has been seen by scientific hardness, data analytics and subject matter experts – lawyers, judges and faculty.
Like the current uniform bar examination, Nextgen Bar Exam will serve as an important bridge between states and regions that administer it, facilitates score portability in the US, which can be transferred for admission objectives in another state or region that selects to accept it.
To date, the courts adopting only one in 43 have indicated that it would not accept the qualifying score earned in other Nextgen Courts.
More than 70,000 lawyers have taken advantage of the score portability program presented through the current examination, and the portability remains a compelling argument for the national level administered and approved bar examination.
At any point the National Conference of Bar candidates said that in developing Nextgen exam, its purpose was to make it easier than the current time examination, As something has recently claimed more false claimsNor has the conference made this argument in our courts. With the current time examination, it is the Supreme Court in each of the 43 states which determines what a passing score is, not the National Conference of Bar candidates.
Nextgen Bar will reflect more closely to the day-to-day law practice, along with the requirement of application of legal knowledge for client-oriented tasks, as well as mastery of fundamental legal subjects such as constitutional and criminal laws, torture, property and contracts. The new examination also requires successful candidates to understand and implement the principles of professional responsibility-essential for a lover morality-to ensure that lawyers are designed to navigate the complications of Attorney-client relations.
By the time Nextgen exam is launched, students and new lawyers of more than 10,500 third year law will have tested the material through pilots, fields, prototypes and beta administration. All Nextgen Bar Examination Questions produce demonstration data, which are analyzed by psychiatrists, attorney testing editors and subject matter experts to assure proper difficulty, clarity and suitability for high-day license examination.
From our perspective, the new bar exam will measure not only the book learning, but the performance ability to practice law. Members of the legal profession of political spectrum should support this change.
Justice Clint Bolik Arizona is a member of the Supreme Court and retired Justice. Barry Anderson Minnesota is a former member of the Supreme Court.
