Supplemental Documentation

Supplemental documents must be submitted on-line AFTER submitting the Character and Fitness Questionnaire. Once the questionnaire is submitted, a link to upload documents will be activated (lower right hand side of your User Home Page). Supplemental documents are due by June 15^th for a July exam and January 15^th for a February exam.

All documents other than the character questionnaire are considered supplemental, including the one page Authorization and Release form. However, this document should be uploaded as soon as possible - applications will not be acknowledged without it. Please read the acknowledgement letter carefully as it contains information needed to continue the process.

Standard supplemental documents include:

• Any required driver's abstracts. You must submit a certified complete record of your driving history, which is maintained by the Division of Motor Vehicles in the state or jurisdiction (including foreign jurisdictions) in which you hold (or have held) a driver's license in the last seven years. Any on-line abstracts that are submitted MUST be obtained from the motor vehicle agency of the respective state or jurisdiction; no third-party abstracts will be accepted. You must request a COMPLETE abstract. Three-year (abbreviated) abstracts are not accepted.
  
  NEW JERSEY LICENSED DRIVERS:
  http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/pdf/license/DO-21.pdf
  
  Applicants must check the box "CERTIFIED COMPLETE RECORD - $15 PER SEARCH (Court/Bar Exam)."
  
  NEW YORK LICENSED DRIVERS:
  http://www.dmv.ny.gov/forms/mv15.pdf
  
  PENNSYLVANIA LICENSED DRIVERS:
  http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Public/DVSPubsForms/BDL/BDL%20Form/DL-503.pdf
  
  These forms can also be accessed from the "General Application Information" tab on our web site. Driver's abstracts cannot be dated more than six (6) months prior to the date of the examination. Applicants who have provided an abstract for a prior examination must provide a new abstract (if prior abstracts are dated more than six (6) months before the exam).


• Law school certificate. You must print a law school certificate form, fill out the top portion, and submit the form to your law schools(s). A certificate is required from any law school you attended, whether you graduated from that institution or not. The form can be found on your User Home Page.


• Transcripts. School transcripts are required if:
  • • requested by your reviewing attorney or case file manager; or
  • • if you answered "yes" to any of the questions under Section 3D, Education, Probation or Discipline.
  
  If required, contact your school and request that an official transcript of your grades, academic and disciplinary records be sent from the school directly to the New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners.
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  Ethics requirement. The ethics requirement can be satisfied by:
  • 1. taking an approved ethics course in law school and receiving a grade of C or better (as certified on the law school certificate by the law school); or
  • 2. taking the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) and receiving a 75 or better.
  
  If you did not take an approved ethics course in law school, you must arrange to have your MPRE score sent to us from the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). The MPRE scores do not “expire;” scores of 75 or greater from prior years can be used to fulfill the ethics requirement. Applicants who have not fulfilled the ethics requirement by the time exam results are released will be eligible for certification and therefore cannot be admitted. Results remain valid for two years from the date of the examination.
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  Fingerprinting. All applicants must be fingerprinted for every exam. By law, agencies may not share fingerprinting results. Applicants who have been fingerprinted by another agency must be re-printed. Applicants who have been printed for previous exams must be re-printed. Prior applicants: please note that fingerprints are no longer valid for two years.


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  Detailed instructions regarding the fingerprinting process will be provided in your on-line acknowledgement. You cannot be printed until you have received instructions and a "Contributor’s Case Number" for Box 7 of the form, which will be included with your acknowledgement information.


• Special supplemental documents for applicants admitted in another state:
  • 1. Certificate of Good Standing; and
  • 2. Certificate of Ethical Conduct (disciplinary history).
  
  Please note that these may not be the same documents and typically come from different agencies. A list of disciplinary offices is available on our website under the "General Application Information" tab.


• Applicant specific supplemental documents based on responses in character questionnaire, such as:
  • • Court documents;
  • • School transcripts;
  • • Police documentation;
  • • Other documents as indicated when required based on answers to the character questionnaire;
  • • Military discharge documents;
  • • Any documentation requested by your reviewing attorney, typically due within 30 days of the request.

• All candidates must be fingerprinted so that we may perform a Criminal History search. Detailed instructions will be included with your acknowledgment packet. Your application ID will be available in the acknowledgement packet and must be entered in box 7, Case Contributer’s Number.

  By law, fingerprinting results are only available to the agency requesting the prints. If you have been printed by another state agency, you MUST be reprinted for the bar examination.

  ALL applicants must be fingerprinted for EACH exam. Fingerprint results from prior exams can no longer be used.