Rule 65 Comprehensive licensing examination

1. All applicants determined to be eligible for examination for licenses to practice as attorneys and counselors at law in this state shall be examined by the board of bar examiners by administering to all applicants a comprehensive licensing examination consisting of three parts: the Foundational Law Examination, the Lawyering Performance Examination, and a supervised practice requirement. Unless otherwise specified in these rules, the three-part examination required by this rule may be referred to as “the comprehensive licensing examination.”

(a) Foundational Law Examination.The Foundational Law Examination shall be prepared, scored, and analyzed by the board of bar examiners. It shall consist of 100 multiple-choice questions involving the following areas of law: real property, contracts, torts, federal civil procedure, evidence, criminal law, and constitutional law. This examination shall be administered at testing centers. The Foundational Law Examination need not be taken in the State of Nevada.

(b) Lawyering Performance Examination.The performance test questions shall be prepared and graded by the board of bar examiners. The exam shall be composed of three performance test questions. The performance test shall assess an applicant’s ability to use fundamental lawyering skills in a realistic situation. It may examine fundamental lawyering skills that are required for the performance of many lawyering tasks. These skills shall include problem solving, legal analysis and reasoning, factual analysis, communication, organization and management of a legal task, and recognizing and resolving ethical dilemmas. The Lawyering Performance Examination may test applicants on legal ethics and may test applicants on their knowledge of any legal subject.

Performance test questions may embrace more than a single subject. The same subjects may be covered on both the Foundational Law Examination and the Lawyering Performance Examination.

(c) Supervised practice.The supervised practice program shall require an applicant who has not completed more than six continuous months of active, licensed practice of law in the last two years in a U.S. jurisdiction to practice law with a supervising lawyer and complete a self-directed learning project and journaling requirement.

2. Prior to the admission to the practice of law, and not earlier than three years preceding the year in which an applicant passes the Lawyering Performance Examination, and no later than three years after the year in which an applicant passes said examination, an applicant shall successfully complete the Foundational Law Examination, Lawyering Performance Examination, and supervised practice requirement. There shall be no limit to the number of times an applicant may attempt those components during such period, but if an applicant does not pass every component during such period, an applicant must retake all components of the exam that do not fit within the time parameters.