Colorado

Civil Procedure

Civil Procedure

Rule 203.4 – Applications for Admission by Colorado Bar Examination

(1) All applicants who are ineligible for admission on motion as a qualified out-of-state attorney as set forth in C.R.C.P. 203.2, or by UBE score transfer as set forth in C.R.C.P. 203.3, must, as a condition of admission, take and pass the Colorado bar examination.
(2) Colorado bar examination applications for the February 2015 Bar Examination must be received or postmarked on or before the first day of December, 2014. After December 1, 2014, Colorado bar examination applications must be received on or before the first day of November preceding the February bar examination; or on or before the first day of April preceding the July bar examination; or at such other times as may be designated by the Supreme Court.
(3) By the time of the examination, Colorado bar examination applicants must have received:

(a) a J.D. or LL.B. degree from a law school approved by the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association;
(b) a J.D. or LL.B. degree from a state-accredited law school, provided that such applicant shall have been admitted in another jurisdiction of the United States and shall have been primarily engaged in the active practice of law, as defined by C.R.C.P. 203.2, for three of the five years immediately preceding application for bar examination admission in Colorado; or
(c) a first professional law degree from a law school in a common law, English-speaking nation other than the United States provided that such applicant shall:

(i) have been admitted to the bar of the nation where the applicant received the first professional law degree or in another foreign or United States jurisdiction;
(ii) establish that the applicant is currently a member in good standing in all jurisdictions where admitted; and
(iii) have been primarily engaged in the active practice of law, as defined by C.R.C.P. 203.2, for three of the five years immediately preceding application for admission to the practice of law in Colorado.
(4) All Colorado bar examination applicants must pay the required application fee.
(5) All successful Colorado bar examination applicants must pass the Multi-State Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE), as described in C.R.C.P. 203.2(5), prior to admission.
(6) All successful Colorado bar examination applicants must complete the course on professionalism, as described in C.R.C.P. 203.1(8), prior to and as a condition of admission. Credit for completion of the professionalism course shall be valid for eighteen months following completion of the course.
(7) Any unsuccessful applicant may, upon request, obtain a copy of the applicant’s answers to the essay portions of the examination. Such request shall be made on a form furnished by the Office of Attorney Admissions. This rule does not permit applicants to obtain any materials other than the applicant’s written essay answers.

C.R.C.P. 203.4

Source: Entire rule added and effective September 1, 2014; amended May 11, 2017, effective immediately; amended and adopted January 24, 2019, effective January 24, 2019.