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In the United States, those seeking to become lawyers must normally pass a bar examination before they can be admitted to the bar and become licensed to practice law. Bar exams are administered by states or territories, generally by agencies under the authority of state supreme courts. Almost all states use some examination components created by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Forty-one jurisdictions have adopted the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), which is composed entirely of NCBE-created components.
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- ↑ Ransford C. Pyle, Carol M. Bast, Foundations of Law: Cases, Commentary and Ethics (2016), p. 7.
- ↑ Rossen, Marc D. (December 2011). "Seven Hurdles to Bar Exam Success (and how to overcome them), Vol. 60, Issue 3" (PDF). The Gavel, The Student Newspaper at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. p. 5.
- 1 2 American Professional Testing Service, Inc. v. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal and Professional Publications, Inc., 108 F.3d 1147 (9th Cir., 1997), O'Scannlain, J.
- ↑ Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, Acing the Bar Exam (2016), p. 18-19.
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