MO Bar study guide
MO Bar · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Missouri Bar Examination is the licensing exam administered by the Missouri Board of Law Examiners (MBLE), the body that processes bar admission applications for the Supreme Court of Missouri. The MBLE site frames admission as a registration-driven process: to file an application, a candidate first creates an MBLE Registration account. The board's exam information hub covers the substance candidates must plan around - admission eligibility requirements, bar exam dates, locations and schedule, exam day information, security procedures, grading and results, key dates and deadlines, health-related condition requests, and ADA accommodation requests. Accommodation-seekers are directed to Rule 8.08, Regulation 10 and the posted submission requirements, so review those before filing. Topics on this exam: Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), Multistate Essay Examination (MEE), and Multistate Performance Test (MPT). The MO Bar study guide has 3 sections and about 1,015 words.
01MBE: Multistate Bar Examination
The Multistate Bar Examination is a six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice test; 175 questions count and 25 are unscored pretests. It covers Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts. Questions test rule application to new facts, not local practice. Civil Procedure: personal jurisdiction, subject-matter jurisdiction, venue, Erie, pleadings, discovery, summary judgment, claim preclusion.
333 words, about 2 min02MEE: Multistate Essay Examination
The Multistate Essay Examination is six 30-minute essays in three hours. It draws on the seven MBE subjects plus Business Associations, Conflict of Laws, Family Law, Trusts and Estates, and Secured Transactions under UCC Article 9. There are no answer choices: you must spot issues, state rules, apply facts, and reach a conclusion. Business Associations: agency authority, partnership duties, LLC formation, corporate veil piercing, fiduciary duties.
336 words, about 2 min03MPT: Multistate Performance Test
The Multistate Performance Test is two 90-minute tasks in three hours. It tests lawyering skills in a closed universe: a File with facts, correspondence, and pleadings, and a Library with statutes, cases, and rules. You must produce a practical document, such as an office memo, client letter, brief, contract clause, discovery request, or closing argument, using only those materials. Read the task memo first: it defines the audience, format, and question.
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