The ABA Journal recently published an article, Utah Announces Skills-Based Path to Law Licensure. It states:
Last week, the Utah Supreme Court approved a new process that requires candidates to perform 240 hours of post-graduation supervised practice, complete specific skills-based coursework, and pass a new one-day written test similar to the Multistate Performance Test and administered by the Utah State Bar, according to the Utah Bar’s website.
Utah’s new system is based on the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System’s 2020 Report, Building a Better Bar: The Twelve Building Blocks of Minimum Competence.
Here are articles describing other states’ skills-based approaches:
Oregon’s Alternative Pathway to the Bar Proves Popular
Nevada Supreme Court OKs Three-Pronged Bar Exam
Minnesota Curricular Pathway to Attorney Licensing
South Dakota Approves Public Service Pathway to Bar
Washington State Follows Oregon and Wisconsin by Approving Alternatives to Bar Exam
The Collaboratory On Legal Education and Licensing for Practice, a group of scholars who focus on lawyer licensing and alternatives to the traditional bar exam, maintains this website describing steps that various jurisdictions have taken to explore or implement new methods of assessing minimum competence.
Take a look.
