Following up on Wednesday’s put up, Dispute Over Restricted Seating, Preferential Therapy For DC Bar Examination Continues—However Court docket Is not Budging: D.C. Court docket of Appeals, The DC Court docket of Appeals Provides 450 Seats to the July 2022 DC Bar Examination:
The DC Court docket of Appeals has continued to hunt further venues to manage the DC Bar Examination in July, and at the moment we’re joyful to announce that we now have elevated our seating capability to 1550 seats.
The College of the District of Columbia will present 450 additional spots above the 1,100 seats obtainable on the DC Armory.
The precedence registration interval opened at the moment and can shut Could seventeenth at 11:59pm.
Basic registration will open on Could 18th at 12:00am Japanese Time and shut when all seats are stuffed. Though we don’t anticipate to fill the seats in the course of the precedence registration, it isn’t potential to foretell what number of seats will stay when basic registration opens.
We remorse the inconvenience it could trigger some candidates to take a seat for the examination in a distinct Uniform Bar Examination jurisdiction (“UBE”). To mitigate the inconvenience to candidates who usually are not capable of get hold of a seat for the D.C. examination, the next might be made obtainable for the July 2022 examination cycle (June 1, 2022 – December 15, 2022):
1. The applying price for candidates who apply based mostly on a transferred UBE rating from the July 2022 examination might be $232.00 for the July 2022 examination cycle. This is identical price charged to examination candidates. The traditional price for UBE rating switch functions is $418.00.
2. The requirement for UBE rating switch functions to report a minimal rating of 266 on the time the appliance is submitted is waived. Candidates who plan to take a seat for the UBE in one other jurisdiction could apply for admission in D.C. at anytime starting June 1st. People who full the D.C. character and health software between June 1 to June 15 might be reviewed for character and health in time for the swearing-in ceremony on January 25, 2023. Functions submitted after June fifteenth likewise will obtain expedited assessment as soon as the background report is accomplished. All UBE rating switch candidates should have a UBE rating of at the very least 266 and an MPRE minimal rating of 75 along with assembly all different necessities earlier than they are often licensed for admission.
We wish the thank the College of the District of Columbia for working with the DC Court docket of Appeals in finding and offering the extra 450 seats.
Additionally, we wish to thank the deans of the distinguished legislation faculties in Washington, DC for supporting the DC Court docket of Appeals determination to ascertain a priority-registration course of for the DC Bar – which prioritizes graduates of native legislation faculties.
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