The Court convenes monthly in formal sessions for administering the oath of admission. You are required to appear in person to be administered the oath and to sign the roll of attorneys. The Committee will notify you by letter and you will be given two dates on which you may appear to be administered the oath. Your first scheduled date will be approximately three weeks after such notification; your alternate date will be approximately seven weeks after such notification. DC App. Rule 46 (h)(3) directs that you take the oath and sign the roll of attorneys within 90 days of the certification date and that it is your obligation to appear in person to comply with the Court's rule. If you fail to do so, our rule provides that you may file, within one year from the certification date, an affidavit explaining the cause of the delay. The affidavit shall be sent to the Director of Admissions. The members of the Committee on Admissions may then re-approve your application or deny your admission and direct that you file a new application.

The Superior Court adopted a privacy rule, SCR 5(f)(1), which applies to most divisions, requiring that the filer redact or remove from the public record the following information: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, financial account numbers and names of minors. If you need to include such information in a particular filing, a motion should be filed seeking permission to file the unredacted filing under seal and, upon approval by the court, a redacted copy can then be submitted, in paper, under seal.

Although short filings may be read on a computer screen, longer briefs or those with many attachments and exhibits are not. Therefore, judges have found it sensible to require a second courtesy copy in paper for longer briefs. These copies may be delivered or mailed directly to the judge’s chambers. Remember, serving copies on the judge does not constitute filing with the Court.

Normally, an application for admission without examination will take six months to process. Much of this "processing time" results from the background investigation and preparation of the character report by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

The bar examination is administered on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of February and July.

If you are successful on the examination, you will be notified of your MBE score only. If you are not successful on the examination, you will be notified of your performance on MBE and essay sections of the examination. You will be given a grading sheet which reflects: your MBE scaled score; the maximum raw point value and the raw score you achieved on each essay question; your total raw essay score; your scaled essay score; and your combined scaled score (MBE scaled score + essay scaled score) on the examination. (NOTE: If you transferred your essay score or MBE score from a previous examination, you will be notified only that you passed that section of the examination, and your score will be reported to you as a scaled score of 133.)

A minimum scaled score of 75 is required on the MPRE.

The essay section of the examination consists of eight questions and is administered on Tuesday. Three hours of testing time are allotted to both the morning and afternoon sessions. The two Multistate Performance Test (MPT) questions are administered in the morning. Each MPT question is worth 45 raw points. The six Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions are administered in the afternoon. Each MEE question is worth 15 raw points. The maximum possible raw score on the essay (MPT and MEE) is 180 raw points. 

The Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) section of the examination consists of 200 questions and is administered on Wednesday. Three hours of testing time are allotted to both the morning and afternoon sessions; 100 questions are given during each testing session. 

Additional information concerning the MEE, MPT, and MBE can be found at the National Conference of Bar Examiners' website: www.ncbex.org

The filing fee is $100 if the application is filed by the first deadline and $300 if the application is filed by the late deadline. The testing fee for the Multistate Bar Examination is $54 and the testing fee for the essays (Multistate Essay Examination + Multistate Performance Test) is $42. There is also a fee, the amount of which to be specified in the application materials, for the National Conference of Bar Examiners to conduct the background investigation. The manner of payment and payees for all fees is also specified in the application materials.

eFiling fees are calculated by adding the court filing fee (if applicable) + the CaseFileXpress fee ($15.00) + a (3% + $1) processing fee to NIC, the service that remits court and filing fees to the DC Superior Court and FSX. In the near future NIC will offer a cash discount for electronic check payments.

Electronic filings rejected by the court clerk are not assessed CaseFileXpror court fee.

The total cost for discovery service is $8.50 regardless of the number of attorneys served, up to 30 MB per transmission.

There are no hidden or additional fees.