Rule 68 Transmittal of examinations, certificates and recommendations of board of bar examiners to court

1. When the board of bar examiners has completed any investigation that it deems necessary and all the components of the comprehensive licensing examination have been completed and reduced to writing, the board of bar examiners shall transmit to the court its certificate:

(a) Showing whether or not the applicant has met the requirements of Rule 51; and

(b) Containing the statement that:

(1) The applicant was examined by the board of bar examiners;

(2) The applicant had no knowledge or intimation of the nature of any of the questions to be propounded before the same were asked by the board of bar examiners;

(3) The answers to each and all of the questions, except research questions, were taken down as given by the applicant without reference to any unauthorized aid; and

(4) The board of bar examiners feels that the applicant fulfills or does not fulfill the requirements for admission to practice, and a recommendation for or against such admission.

2. The board of bar examiners may defer for a reasonable period the making of a report on any applicant whose background investigation has not been completed, notwithstanding the fact that such applicant has passed all the components of the comprehensive licensing examination. The mere fact that an applicant has passed all the components of the comprehensive licensing examination and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination shall not automatically entitle such applicant to admission. The board nevertheless must make such report no later than twelve months after the applicant completes all components of the comprehensive licensing examination and the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, unless the supreme court otherwise orders.

3. When the board has completed grading a component of the comprehensive licensing exam, it shall promptly transmit to the supreme court its report of the grades or results received by the applicants and such further papers as the court may deem appropriate.

4. Neither a member of the board of bar examiners nor the admissions director or any other person may release the results of any component of the comprehensive licensing examination prior to the supreme court’s receipt of an accurate report of such results. It shall be deemed a contempt of the supreme court to release results in violation of this rule.

5. Except as otherwise provided by these rules, the board’s reports shall remain confidential and shall be retained by the clerk of the supreme court indefinitely. Nothing in these rules, however, shall preclude an applicant from obtaining the applicant’s own grade on any component of the comprehensive licensing examination.