New California Bar Exam Additions
(Effective July 2007)

Applicants should be prepared to address the following subjects:

• Business Associations
  • Questions including but not limited to:
    • Corporations
    • Sole Proprietorships
    • Partnerships (General Partnerships, Limited Partnerships, Limited Liability Partnerships)
    • Joint Ventures
    • Limited Liability Companies
    • Principles of Agency inherent in business relationships
      
      
• Civil Procedure
  • Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and California Code of Civil Procedure
    • Discuss differences between Federal Rules and California Rules
    • Especially California procedures of pleading and practice that have no specific counterparts in the Federal Rules
      
      
• Evidence
  • Federal Rules of Evidence and the California Evidence Code
    • Compare and contrast the differences between the Federal Rules and the California Evidence Code
    • Special focus on California rules of evidence that have no specific counterparts in the Federal Rules
      
      
• Professional Responsibility
  • Professional Responsibility will be tested on the exam. This is separate from the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE). The MPRE is a separate requirement to practice law in California
  • Visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ site at www.ncbex.org
    • California Rules of Professional Conduct
    • Sections of the California Business and Professions Code
    • Leading federal and state case law on the subject
    • ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
    • ABA Model Code of Professional Responsibility
      
      
• Wills and Succession
  • California Probate Code
  • Understand California law in the following areas:
    • Division 2. General Provisions
      • Part 1. Effect of Death of Married Person on Community and Quasi-Community Property, sections 100-103
      • Part 3. Contractual Arrangements Relating to Rights at Death, Sections 140-147, 150
      • Part 5. Simultaneous Death, Sections 220, 222-224
      • Part 6. Distribution Among Heirs or Beneficiaries, Section 240
    • Division 6. Wills and Intestate Succession
      • Part 1. Wills
        • Chapter 1. General Provisions, Sections 6100, 6101, 6104, 6105
        • Chapter 2. Execution of Wills, Sections 6110-6113
        • Chapter 3. Revocation and Revival, Sections 6120, 6121, 6123
      • Part 2. Intestate Succession, Sections 6400-6402
      • Part 3. Family Protection
        • Former Chapter 5. Spouse and Child Omitted from Will, Former Sections 6560-6562, 6570-6573 [for decedents dying prior to January 1, 1998]
    • Division 11. Construction of Wills, Trusts and Other Instruments
      • Part 1. Rules of Interpretation of Instruments, Sections 21105, 21109, 21110, 21137
      • Part 6. Family Protection: Omitted Spouses and Children [for decedents dying on or after January 1, 1998]
        • Chapter 2. Omitted Spouses, Sections 21610-21612
        • Chapter 3. Omitted Children, Sections 21620-21623