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How do you plan for bar exams as a new associate when you want to lateral to another market soon?
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 11:02 am
by Anonymous User
Let's say that you didn't get into your first-choice market and but got a job in a different state. You still want to try and lateral to your first choice market after 1-2 years at your first job. How would bar exam situations work here? Do you have to accept as a fact that you'll have to take bar exams in both states, or is there a way to only take one?
Re: How do you plan for bar exams as a new associate when you want to lateral to another market soon?
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 12:26 pm
by CanadianWolf
If both jurisdictions are UBE (Uniform Bar Exam) states, then you may only have to sit for the bar exam once if your score is adequate in both jurisdictions.
If not jurisdictions within the 36+ UBE jurisdictions, then it depends upon whether the jurisdictions in question offer reciprocity with each other. If so, then the threshold is typically 5 years of practice before one can join the second bar by motion.
If one state is neither a UBE or reciprocal jurisdiction, then you will have to sit for two bar exams unless one of the jurisdictions is Wash DC in which case special rules may come into play depending upon your function within the law firm which employs you.
Re: How do you plan for bar exams as a new associate when you want to lateral to another market soon?
Posted: Sat May 29, 2021 4:38 pm
by Anonymous User
I'm going from a ube state to CA and firm is giving me 6 weeks paid to study. That's how.