Pursuant to RFA 4.05(5), the Chair of the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners has extended the late filing deadline for the February 2021 Remote UBE. The new deadline will be noon (12:00 p.m. PST) on December 31, 2020. Applications must be submitted via the related SmartSheet. Payment of fees must be for the correct amount and received prior to the submission of the application in the SmartSheet. October retakers need only pay the application fee. Applicants who did not take the October bar exam must pay the application fee and the late fee. Additionally, pursuant to CJO 20-09, to ensure that the processing and grading capacities of the board are not exceeded, the Chair will limit the number of additional exam takers to 40 applicants.

The February 2021 SmartSheet will be turned off, and no additional applications or payments will be processed, once the 40th application is received or the deadline has passed, whichever occurs first.

The February 2021 Oregon Bar Exam will be a remote-only Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), pursuant to Oregon Supreme Court Order (CJO) 20-031. Per the NCBE’s remote UBE requirements, we will use ExamSoft as our exam software vendor. Applicants will be required to register with ExamSoft in order to use ExamSoft’s Examplify platform. Applicants are responsible for their own equipment, and must ensure that the computer they test with meets the minimum system requirements (MSRs) of Examplify, which you can find at this link: https://examsoft.com/resources/examplify-minimum-system-requirements. Please note that new Apple products using Apple’s M1 chips are not supported. At this same link, you will find links to instructions on determining whether your computer meets the MSRs, and directions on how to ensure that you have the correct administrator rights to use the program. If you have questions about Examplify’s MSRs, please DO NOT contact the admissions staff. Instead, contact ExamSoft through their tech support chat at the aforementioned link or call them at 866-429-8889 ext. 1. The exam will consist of eight 90-minute sessions held over two days (four sessions each day).

Applicants are responsible for their own exam environment. If you are concerned about securing a quiet and private exam environment with adequate internet connectivity, you should reach out to your law school for possible solutions. In the alternative, if you will be testing remotely from within Oregon, you can also contact Oregon Women Lawyers via email at owlspresident@oregonwomenlawyers.org to see if a local law firm has office space available for applicants.

The application for February 2021 is now available in our Admissions Forms Library. All applications must be submitted via the related SmartSheet. The timely filing deadline was November 16, 2020. The late filing deadline is presently December 15, 2020, and the late filing fee is $350. This late filing deadline may be extended by the BBX chair, and if such an extension is granted, the new deadline will be posted on the admissions home page. Please also note that per CJO 20-09, applicants who failed the October 2020 bar exam will not be asked to pay the late filing fee for the February 2021 exam so long as their applications are received before the late filing deadline.

Out-of-State applicants: Oregon does not require examinee applicants to affirm that they intend to practice in Oregon; however, all non-OSB-member examinee applicants must complete the aforementioned February 2021 Bar Exam Application.

The Admissions Department sent the October 2020 remote exam results to individual examinees on November 24, 2020 (the Notice) at the address provided in their exam application. This was to give successful applicants a head start on their job search and unsuccessful applicants sufficient time to reapply for February 2021. The exam results will be published on the Bar's website on December 4, 2020. The virtual Admissions Ceremony for successful applicants will be held on December 23, 2020, which is the first day that successful applicants can submit their oath to the Oregon Supreme Court. Information about the ceremony, and how to become a member of the bar, were included in the successful applicant's Notice.

Oregon entered into Memorandums of Understandings (MOUs) with the following jurisdictions (cut score): Connecticut (266), Illinois (266), Kentucky (264), Maryland (266), Massachusetts (270), New Hampshire (270), New Jersey (266), New York (266), Ohio (270), Tennessee (270), Vermont (270) and Washington, D.C. (266). Pursuant to those MOUs, we will send applicant scores to each jurisdiction for which they qualify. The scores will be transmitted on the same day we publicly announce the bar results (December 4, 2020). If you wish to apply to one of the MOU jurisdictions, you should work on your application for that jurisdiction sooner rather than later, but recognize that the jurisdiction will not know that your score qualifies for admission until after December 4, 2020. Please do not contact the Admissions Department regarding the contents of this announcement. All questions will be answered in the Notice.

All fingerprint and notary requirements have been suspended. Once you have filled out the application and C&F Reference Forms, just sign the declaration at the end of the application and send it in with your payment. Please do not contact the Admissions Department to confirm this statement. We will place a new announcement here if this changes. Thank you.