The Bar Examiner, NCBE's quarterly publication, provides comprehensive, authoritative information on current issues in bar admissions and legal education and features annual bar examination and admission statistics by jurisdiction.

The Summer 2024 issue includes articles on three jurisdictions’ registration paths for situations that fall outside traditional admission via the bar exam, a research brief on the NextGen pilot test, and a pair of companion articles that dive into the differences between the US legal regulatory system and those in use abroad.

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The mission of the National Conference of Bar Examiners is to promote fairness, integrity, and best practices in admission to the legal profession for the benefit and protection of the public. As part of our vision for a competent, ethical, and diverse legal profession, we take seriously the need to work toward greater equity in all that we do as a testing organization, and we actively work to eliminate any aspects of our exams that could contribute to performance disparities among different groups.