ABA Journal, Group Slams NCBE For 'Scattershot' Approach to Offering NextGen Bar Exam Information:
As the draft outline for the NextGen bar exam’s family law content was posted for comment on July 8, members of the legal education community criticized the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ “piecemeal” release of “incomplete and inconsistent” messaging about the new exam.
A statement from the Association of Academic Support Educators slammed the NCBE, saying its “scattershot approach to communicating essential information leaves law school academic support faculty without the clear, consistent and reliable guidance necessary to prepare graduates for the new bar exam” that 20 jurisdictions have committed to adopting. Six jurisdictions are scheduled to begin administering the exam in 2026.
The group urged the NCBE to not include family law or trusts and estates in the 2026 exam.
“There have been far too many substantial changes to that already fragmented information to allow academic support faculty and commercial bar review providers to effectively prepare current law students who will be in the first wave of NextGen examinees,” according to the release.
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