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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowHopeful attorneys who take the Indiana bar exam in 2016 may no longer have to write essays on commercial law, personal property, and taxation based on proposed changes from the Indiana Board of Law Examiners.
The BLE wants comment on its proposed changes to the Indiana Essay Examination. It believes commercial law is typically used by specialists more than general practitioners, that personal property is too narrow of a subject area, and taxation is extremely broad and the laws are often changing.
Instead, it will keep the other topics currently used on the test and possibly add debtor/creditor law and employment law. The BLE cites that these two law sections are among the largest in the Indiana State Bar Association.
The BLE is also proposing that six of the topics already tested in the Multistate Bar Exam be added to the potential topics that can be tested on the Indiana Essay Examination, including federal constitutional law, contracts, criminal law and procedure, evidence, real property and torts.
The National Conference of Bar Examiners recently announced that a seventh section to the Multistate Bar Exam on civil procedure will be added beginning with February 2015 administration of the exam. The number of questions per topic will decrease, with 28 questions covering contracts and 27 questions on the remaining six topics.
More information on the changes to the Indiana bar exam can be found on the BLE’s website.
The changes, if adopted, wouldn’t be implemented until 2016 to give law schools, students and applicants time to prepare.
Comments are due May 31 and may be sent to Executive Director Bradley W. Skolnik at [email protected] or at State Board of Law Examiners, 30 S. Meridian St., Suite 875, Indianapolis IN 46204-3569. He can also be reached at 317-232-2552.
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