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The Alabama bar examination is mostly generic. Only one three-hour session out of three days is devoted to local Alabama essays. We have not found any examples of these local questions.

The Alabama bar exam, a 3-day exam, consists of

• the six-hour Multistate Bar Examination (MBE), weighted 50%;
• two 90-minute Multistate Performance Test (MPT) problems, weighted 10%;
• six 30-minute Multistate Essay Examination (MEE) questions, weighted 20%; and
• the three-hour Alabama Essay Examination, weighted 20%.

The essay portions of the Academic Bar Examination are weighted so that the Alabama Civil Litigation Examination questions are worth 40 percent of the total written score, the Multi-State Essay Examination (MEE) questions are worth 40 percent, and the Multi-State Performance Test (MPT) questions are worth 20 percent of the total written score. The scaled essay test score constitutes 50 percent of the combined score and the scaled Multi-State Bar Examination (MBE) score is 50 percent of the combined score.

The successful applicant must achieve a combined scaled score of 128. Applicants also must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) with a passing scaled score of 75.

The following subjects may be tested on the Alabama bar exam:

• Alabama civil litigation, including
  • appellate practice
  • arbitration
  • civil procedure
  • remedies
• business associations (agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs)
• conflicts of laws
• constitutional law (Alabama and federal)
• contracts, including UCC Article 2 sales
• criminal law and procedure
• evidence
• family law
• federal civil procedure
• real property, including real estate finance
• torts
• trusts and estates (wills, trusts, and estates)
• UCC Articles 1 (general provisions), 2 (sales), 3 (negotiable instruments), and 9 (secured transactions).