BP: So fourteen states use the exam
now. Have any of the remainder rejected it,
decided against it as opposed to having it
pending as it is here?
BA: I don’t know. I can say that the
New York Court of Appeals just put out
for comment a proposal for New York to
adopt the Uniform Bar Exam starting next
July. That is not an endorsement by the
Court yet, but it is an endorsement by the
New York Board of Bar Examiners to put
out that proposal. New York would add
to the Uniform Bar Exam a one-hour, fiftyquestion multiple-choice test on New York
law that you could take with the bar exam
or at other times during the year. That
would be a big change on the map of the
Uniform Bar Exam if New York adopts that
proposal, because they would be the first
“mega” state to join.
BP: If you know, and you may not know
off the top of your head, where are we in
terms of admissions in Vermont? I always
think that we are at one hundred a year
or so, but I don’t know who our brand
new lawyers passing the bar exam for the
first time, who’s waiving in through that
program that you described earlier.
BA: For 2013, it was almost 150, with
one hundred admitted after the bar exam
and forty-four admitted motion applicants.
But you are right, before 2013 the number
was around one hundred, sometimes
lower, for a number of years. 2013 had a
large law school class and was the first full
year after the clerkship requirement was
eliminated for lawyers admitted from other
states. There’s no question that repla