What happens to currently licensed lawyers when a new state joins the UBE? Forum

[amk110]

I can't seem to find a straight answer to this question anywhere.

When a new state joins the UBE, are currently licensed practitioners in that state eligible to apply for licenses in the other UBE states?

I read something on the UBE website's FAQ that seemed to suggest that persons who took a state's exam may be able to have their score "waived" into the UBE if they took the state exam within a relatively recent period of time before the state joined the UBE.

[zot1]

My understanding is that you can't do that.

[Rlabo]

Also curious about this -- am definitely taking NY and am contemplating NJ as well, but have heard that NJ is strongly considering moving to UBE. May just suck it up and do the extra day, but am curious under what circumstances would a pass in NY eventually allow me to waive in to NJ, assuming they do actually adopt the UBE?

[LeDique]

If you're asking if you can get licensed in another UBE state merely because you're licensed in a UBE state already, the answer is of course not: different states have different UBE requirements. If you're asking if your UBE score itself is transferrable, the answer is yes subject to that state's restrictions. That's half the point of the UBE, but there's a temporal restriction of a few years. Of course the UBE FAQ doesn't have an answer to this because each state has different policies. The answer should be apparent to someone who made it through law school: read the rules of the bar that you'd like to join. How hard is this?

[A. Nony Mouse]

And I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't a UBE state when you took the exam, you don't have a UBE score to transfer.

[Rlabo]

If you're asking if you can get licensed in another UBE state merely because you're licensed in a UBE state already, the answer is of course not: different states have different UBE requirements. If you're asking if your UBE score itself is transferrable, the answer is yes subject to that state's restrictions. That's half the point of the UBE, but there's a temporal restriction of a few years. Of course the UBE FAQ doesn't have an answer to this because each state has different policies. The answer should be apparent to someone who made it through law school: read the rules of the bar that you'd like to join. How hard is this?

Hard enough to let someone else do the research for me – you clearly haven't met a second semester 3L

[lacrossebrother]

If you're asking if you can get licensed in another UBE state merely because you're licensed in a UBE state already, the answer is of course not: different states have different UBE requirements. If you're asking if your UBE score itself is transferrable, the answer is yes subject to that state's restrictions. That's half the point of the UBE, but there's a temporal restriction of a few years. Of course the UBE FAQ doesn't have an answer to this because each state has different policies. The answer should be apparent to someone who made it through law school: read the rules of the bar that you'd like to join. How hard is this?

Hard enough to let someone else do the research for me – you clearly haven't met a second semester 3L

I think he's probably been a second semester 3l and that you're a turd.

[Rlabo]

If you're asking if you can get licensed in another UBE state merely because you're licensed in a UBE state already, the answer is of course not: different states have different UBE requirements. If you're asking if your UBE score itself is transferrable, the answer is yes subject to that state's restrictions. That's half the point of the UBE, but there's a temporal restriction of a few years. Of course the UBE FAQ doesn't have an answer to this because each state has different policies. The answer should be apparent to someone who made it through law school: read the rules of the bar that you'd like to join. How hard is this?

Hard enough to let someone else do the research for me – you clearly haven't met a second semester 3L

I think he's probably been a second semester 3l and that you're a turd.

Happens, I'll just have to live knowing that.