How Do You Get Admitted to the Wyoming Bar?

The Wyoming Board of Law Examiners handles bar admission, working alongside a Character and Fitness Committee, under the Wyoming Supreme Court's Rules and Procedures Governing Admission to the Practice of Law.

Day-to-day administration runs through the Wyoming State Bar's admissions office.

The exam content comes from NCBE, which develops the bar exams and scores the multiple-choice portions, while each jurisdiction administers its own exam and grades the written portions.

Wyoming gives the Uniform Bar Exam, the exam NCBE coordinates, composed of the Multistate Essay Examination, two Multistate Performance Test tasks and the Multistate Bar Examination.

The MBE is the six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice exam, and the legacy UBE weights the MBE 50%, the MEE 30% and the MPT 20% on a 400-point scale, with the MEE and MPT on the Tuesday before and the MBE on the last Wednesday of February and July.

Under the admission rules effective August 12, 2026, a passing score on the legacy UBE is 270.

NCBE now calls this exam the legacy UBE and plans to administer it through February 2028; in Wyoming, NCBE lists February 2027 as the last legacy administration.

Wyoming requires a JD from an ABA-accredited law school to sit for the bar, and the state has no law-office-study route: reading the law does not substitute for the degree.

Our research did not establish the rest of the eligibility checklist, such as documentation and registration steps, so read the Board of Law Examiners' current rules before you apply.

Wyoming requires an MPRE scaled score of 85 or higher, and NCBE's jurisdiction page for Wyoming lists the same 85.

Proof of the passing score must be submitted within one year of the exam on which the applicant earned a passing UBE score.

The MPRE is a two-hour, 60-question multiple-choice exam offered three times a year, and scaled scores run from 50 to 150, with each jurisdiction setting its own passing score.

It measures knowledge of the established standards of lawyer conduct, not personal ethical values.

The test fee is $185 for all 2026 and 2027 administrations.

Admission runs through a Character and Fitness Committee alongside the Wyoming Board of Law Examiners, both under the Wyoming Supreme Court's admission rules.

A character and fitness investigation is part of the admission process in every jurisdiction, and NCBE runs investigations for many of them — but NCBE makes no decisions or recommendations; each jurisdiction decides who is fit to practise.

Jurisdictions also decide which questions an applicant answers and how those answers are evaluated.

Our research did not capture Wyoming's own questionnaire, timing or fees for this review, so questions about a specific history belong with the Board of Law Examiners and the Character and Fitness Committee.

Yes, in two ways.

Admission on motion is open to lawyers who hold an ABA JD, were admitted to another jurisdiction by written exam, and practised at least 300 hours a year for 5 of the 7 years before applying; NCBE lists no reciprocity condition for Wyoming.

That 5-of-7-year shape is one of the typical admission-on-motion patterns on NCBE's jurisdiction pages.

Separately, an applicant who already holds a passing UBE score can apply with it, as long as the exam was taken less than three years before the Wyoming application — and a UBE jurisdiction's passing score applies to score transferees as well as to its own examinees.

Transferring a score does not skip character and fitness, and NCBE charges $30 for each Official Bar Exam Score Transcript, the report used to send a UBE score to another jurisdiction.

The application fee is $750, effective October 2, 2026, per the Wyoming State Bar's admissions page; the $600 figure still shown on NCBE's Wyoming page as of our review is outdated.

The February 2027 exam runs February 23-24 in Cheyenne and the July 2027 exam runs July 27-28 in Laramie, with applications due by the third Friday in November for the February exam and the third Friday in April for the July exam.

Our research did not verify Wyoming's annual bar dues or its latest first-time pass rate, and we did not establish when results are released — ask the Wyoming State Bar's admissions office for current figures.

NCBE lists Wyoming among the jurisdictions scheduled to start the NextGen UBE in July 2027, and February 2027 is the state's last legacy UBE — so the July 27-28, 2027 exam in Laramie will be Wyoming's first NextGen administration.

Under the rules effective August 12, 2026, Wyoming's passing score on the NextGen UBE is 620.

The NextGen runs 9 hours over 1.5 days — two 3-hour sessions on day one and one on day two, unless a jurisdiction adds a local component to day two — taken on the examinee's own laptop at in-person, proctored testing sites, and it reports one score on a 500-750 scale with no separate multiple-choice and written scores.

NCBE cautions that legacy scores on the 400-point scale and NextGen scores should not be compared directly.

NCBE's NextGen examinee guide for the July 2026-February 2027 exams lists a $149 exam software/technology fee on top of the jurisdiction's application fee; check with NCBE for the fee that applies to the July 2027 exam.