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).