I received an email from a person who worked as a state board of law examiners. With permission, I reproduce the email, stripping any reference to the person’s state. …
In my view, the UBE, and the *** Supreme Court through its adoption, dropped the standard of “minimal competence” to an alarming level. I could not, in good conscience, continue to serve and resigned. The NextGen Bar Exam represents the complete abandonment of competence as a standard. I sincerely hope that the *** Supreme Court does not adopt it. Unfortunately, they will probably blindly defer to the “experts” at the NCBE.
Even since *** adopted the UBE, I have been hoping that it would not prove to be the disaster for professional competence that I feared it would. And while the jury is still out on that point, the NCBE now wants to do away with any testing of the applicants’ abilities to apply the facts to the law. Any state that adopts the NextGen bar exam will have abandoned its professional obligation to ensure that new lawyers are minimally competent.