The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar invites Annual Meeting registrants to attend The Next Generation of the Bar Exam, on Friday, August 5 at 10:00 AM. This complimentary, non-CLE, Annual Meeting program features speakers from the National Conference of Bar Examiners. Details are included below and we ask that you please RSVP by Friday, July 29 if you plan to attend.
Please note that you must be registered for the ABA Annual Meeting to attend.
Starting in 2026 (and based on input from nearly 15,000 practicing attorneys across the country), US law grads will start taking a new bar exam, which will test an expanded set of legal skills, including legal research, client counseling, and dispute resolution. Join Judith Gundersen, NCBE President and CEO, and Marilyn Wellington, NCBE Chief Strategy and Operations Officer, to learn about this new exam, including current work on the content, design, and implementation and what milestones to look for in the next year.
The Next Generation of the Bar Exam
Friday, August 5, 2022
10:00 AM
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive
Grand Hall K
Judith Gundersen is the President and CEO of the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE), where she has overseen a number of major modernizations to the 90-year-old organization, including a three-year study of the bar exam resulting in recommendations that are guiding implementation for the next generation of the exam; the transition of the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) to a computer-based testing format; and the first-ever remote administrations of the bar exam, offered in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gundersen's focus on transparency and outreach has resulted in significant new diversity and inclusion initiatives and increased outreach to legal educators by NCBE.
Gundersen joined NCBE in 2000 as the Deputy Director of Testing and became Director of Test Operations in 2015. Prior to joining the Conference, Gundersen worked as an assistant district attorney in Madison, Wisconsin. She obtained her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Marilyn Wellington is the Chief Strategy and Operations Officer for the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE). Wellington previously served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners from 2010 to 2022. Prior to her appointment with the Board of Bar Examiners, Wellington held positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations across the legal community, including as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Chief of Staff to the Massachusetts Trial Court System. Wellington served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's Steering Committee on Bar Admissions and its Standing Advisory Committee on Professionalism. She is the Massachusetts co-chair for the American Bar Foundation's Fellows Program and is a prior member of the NCBE Board of Trustees, chairing its Character and Fitness Investigations Committee. She is a past chair of the Council of Bar Admission Administrators and a past chair of NCBE's Uniform Bar Examination Committee. She earned her JD from the New England School of Law.
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