TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 27, 2020

A third jurisdiction has moved its July bar exam online but unlike other states making that move, test takers in Nevada will be allowed to consult outside reference materials during the two-day exam. The Supreme Court of Nevada has ordered the test be given remotely, but in an acknowledgement of the difficulties of monitoring test takers in their own homes, it is making it an open book test. Two justices dissented from the order, arguing the exam should be postponed until September in hopes it could be given in its traditional format then. Like Indiana and Michigan, Nevada will not administer the Multistate Bar Exam, Law.com reports.