Admission to the Bar - Preparation and Resources: Multistate Essay Examination (MEE)

The following jurisdictions offer the MEE, either separately, or as part of the Multistate Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) (in bold):

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Guam
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois (as part of the UBE eff. July 2019 exam)
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Maine
• Maryland (eff. CY2019)*
• Massachusetts
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina (eff. February 2019 exam)
• North Dakota
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Oregon
• Palau
• Rhode Island (as part of the UBE eff. February 2019 exam)
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee (eff. February 2019 exam)
• U.S. Virgin Islands
• Utah
• Vermont
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming

*--Maryland is designing a state-specific portion; it is unclear what, if any, impact this will have on Maryland's administration of the MEE.

The Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) is a six-question essay test administered either separately or as part of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE).  Each question is timed at 30 minutes, so the entire test clocks in at three hours.

Subject coverage of the Multistate Essay Examination includes any or all of the following:

• Business Associations (Agency and Partnership; Corporations and Limited Liability Companies)
• Civil Procedure
• Conflict of Laws
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts
• Criminal Law and Procedure
• Evidence
• Family Law
• Real Property
• Torts
• Trusts and Estates (Decedents' Estates; Trusts and Future Interests)
• Uniform Commercial Code (Secured Transactions)

For more information on the Multistate Essay Examination, check out Multistate Essay Examination and MEE Subject Outline.

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