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Format, Content, & Grading of the Louisiana Bar Exam

 

 




All data provided below are subject to change by a decision at any time by the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions.  When any changes are made, they will be posted on this site.

The Louisiana Bar Exam is a three-day essay exam.  Louisiana, the nation's only civil-law state, does not use the Multistate Bar Exam (the MBE).  

Instead, Louisiana tests nine separate areas, including five code sections testing on the Louisiana Civil Code and the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure. 


Day One (Monday) 
Civil Code I (8:00 am - 10:00 am)
Civil Code II (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
Civil Code III (2 pm - 5 pm)

Day Two (Wednesday)
Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (8 am - 10 am)
Torts (10:30 am - 12:30 pm)
Business Entities and Negotiable Instruments (2 pm - 5 pm)

Day Three (Friday)
Constitutional Law (8 am - 10 a.m.)
Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence (10:30 am - 1:00 pm)
Federal Jurisdiction & Procedure (2 pm - 5 pm)

Subjects Tested on the Louisiana Bar Exam:


Code Subjects

Civil Code I
Civil Code II
Civil Code III
Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure
Torts

Non-Code Subjects
Business Entities & Negotiable Instruments
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law, Procedure & Evidence
Federal Jurisdiction & Procedure


Grading of the Louisiana Bar Exam:

Seven separate exam areas, including four code subjects, must be passed. A passing score on the Louisiana Bar Exam is 70%. 

Louisiana generally releases the results of the Summer exam in late September and the results of the Winter exam in mid-April.


July 2002 Louisiana Bar Exam

Law
School

Number of
Applicants

Number 
Passing

Percentage
Passing

Number
Conditioned

Percentage
Conditioned

Number 
Failing

Percentage
Failing

LSU

157

131

83.44%

18

11.46%

8

5.10%

Tulane

63

48

76.19%

10

15.87%

5

7.94%

Loyola

116

78

67.24%

25

21.55%

13

11.21%

Southern

119

62

52.10%

28

23.53%

29

24.37%

Other

88

54

61.36%

17

19.32%

17

19.32%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

543

373

68.69%

98

18.05%

72

13.26%

Louisiana Bar Exam Details


Admission on Motion 
(i.e., without having to sit for the bar exam)


Louisiana does NOT provide for admission on motion.  

You MUST take and pass the Louisiana bar exam to practice law in Louisiana.

 

For further information, contact:

Committee on Bar Admissions
2800 Veterans Memorial Blvd.
Suite 310
Metairie, LA 70002
Telephone: 504-836-2420


Exam Dates, Locations:

Winter 2004
Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
February 9, 11, 13, 2004

Summer 2004
Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
July 26, 28, 30, 2004

Baton Rouge, New Orleans

Filing Deadlines and Fees:


For the Summer Exam: 
February 1, with late filing until June 30 (with a $500 late fee).

For the Winter Exam: 
November 1, with late filing until January 15 (with a $500 late fee).

Exam fee: $300

Filing deadlines and fees are subject to change.  Contact the Louisiana bar examiners to learn the rules in effect at the time of your application.

 


According to the Louisiana Committee on Bar Admissions --


The Civil Code I covers:
Family law, including such matters as marriage, divorce, separation, child support, alimony, legitimation and filiation, tutorship and interdiction; matrimonial agreements and community property; and property law, including such matters as the kinds of property and accession, the personal servitudes of usufruct, use and habitation, predial servitudes, building restrictions and boundaries, and acquisitive prescription.

The Civil Code II covers:
Intestate distribution, including representation of deceased persons, devolution of community and separate property, and usufruct, commorientes, acceptance and renunciation, incapacity, unworthiness, and related areas of filiation and adoption. Forced heirship, collation, reduction, the disposable portion (including calculation of the mass of succession).  Testate distribution, forms of testaments, revocation, interpretation of legacies, witnesses, testamentary accretion and conjoint legacies.  Requirements for donations inter vivos, including form, capacity, acceptance.  Prohibited donations inter vivos and mortis causa.  Related Civil Code ancillaries.  The Louisiana Trust Code, including formation, powers and duties of trustees, rights of beneficiaries, settlors, and remedies.

Civil Code III covers:
Examination will include the remainder of the Louisiana Civil Code and related Ancillaries, with the exception of those articles dealing with matters to be covered in the Torts examination, particularly Articles 2315 through 2324.

The Civil Code III examination covers the following topics:
From the Code and related Ancillaries, the areas of:  Obligations, including conventional obligations or contracts; sale and exchange; agency; security rights, including mortgages, pledges and suretyships; liberative prescription; Commercial Laws - Secured Transactions; and conflict of laws (Civil Code Articles 3537 through 3541).

Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure

Examination will include:
As the name implies, this examination covers any part of the Code of Civil Procedure, as well as ancillary statutes relating to civil procedure.

Torts
The examination in Torts is now considered to be a Civil Code Examination.

The Torts examination will include:
Areas of questioning on all Civil Code Articles relating to negligent, intentional, and strict liability tort actions, including specifically Articles 2315 through and including 2324.1 and Articles 659 through and including 671 of the Louisiana Civil Code.  The applicability or exclusivity of the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Statute will, in certain instances, be included in the areas of questioning, as will products liability law and conflict of laws.

Business Entities & Negotiable Instruments

The examination will include:
Provisions of the Louisiana Revised Statutes and the Louisiana Civil Code dealing with corporations, partnerships, partnerships in commendam, limited liability companies, registered limited liability partnerships and negotiable instruments, and particularly the provisions of Title 12, Chapter 1 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (pertaining to business corporations):  Book III, Title XI of the Louisiana Civil Code (pertaining to partnerships and partnerships in commendam);

Title 12, Chapter 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (pertaining to limited liability companies); Chapters 1, 3, and 4 of Title 9, Code Title XI of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (pertaining to partnerships, partnerships in commendam, and registered limited liability partnerships); and Chapters 1, 3, and 4 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (pertaining to commercial paper and bank deposits and collections).

Constitutional Law

Examination will include:
All areas of constitutional law with special consideration given to significant contemporary issues.  The examination specifically addresses areas to which the average practitioner may expect to be exposed in the course of his or her legal career.  A typical examination includes questions on federalism, the contract, due process, and commerce clauses and the Bill of Rights.

Criminal Law, Procedure & Evidence

Examination will include:
Questioning on substantive criminal law and procedure as contained in the United States Constitution, the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, the Louisiana Criminal Code, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure and in the applicable jurisprudence.  It will also include questioning on Louisiana evidence law as contained in the Louisiana Evidence Code and in the applicable jurisprudence and may include questions pertinent to both criminal and civil actions.

Federal Jurisdiction & Procedure

Examination will include:
The federal judicial system, the judicial power of the United States, jurisdiction of federal courts, removal of cases from state to federal courts, venue in civil cases in federal court, the law applied in federal courts, the relations of state and federal courts, procedure in the district courts as provided by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and  Title 28 of the United States Code, the appellate jurisdiction of the circuit courts of appeal and the United States Supreme Court and methods of appellate procedures, appeals, certifications and certiorari.

Louisiana Policy on Changes in the Law:

It is the policy of the Committee that newly-enacted legislation–including amendments to existing federal and state statutes, and amendments, additions, and deletions affecting federal and state rules of procedure and evidence – will be tested six months after the effective date of the legislation, as opposed to the date of enactment.

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