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Foreign-trained lawyers in Massachusetts

Massachusetts lets you sit its bar exam with a degree from another country if the Board of Bar Examiners first decides, in writing, that your education is sufficient. If you are admitted as a lawyer in a foreign country, an LL.M. of at least 24 credit hours with certain courses, at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by Massachusetts and not by distance study, meets that requirement with no further study (15 credit hours if your country is a common-law country). Without the exam, you can apply for a Foreign Legal Consultant license, with the 5 years of practice immediately before your application, or register with the Board of Bar Overseers as in-house counsel for your employer. And if you are already licensed in another state, admission without examination requires 5 of the last 7 years of practice in the United States and the same prior decision of the Board.

The five routes in Massachusetts

For a lawyer admitted only in another country. Each route has its own section below, with the official rule. What each one is

In-house counsel
Yes, with registration
Admission without exam from another state
Yes
Last reviewed
November 8, 2026

The Massachusetts route

The path a lawyer trained in another country takes to a full Massachusetts license.

  1. Ask the Board to decide on your education

    First of all, the Board of Bar Examiners must decide in writing that your education is sufficient (Board Rule VI). You send your documents at least four months before your petition, and the review takes at least four months: for the February exam, your documents must arrive by the first week of August of the year before; for the July exam, by the second week of January.

  2. Complete the studies you are missing

    If your country is a civil-law country and you are admitted in a foreign country, the rule treats as sufficient an LL.M. of at least 24 credit hours at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by Massachusetts, with constitutional law, professional responsibility and a course in at least three of the other subjects on the rule's list; if it is a common-law country, 15 credit hours in those subjects. Distance study does not count. Outside that safe harbor, the Board may require other studies.

  3. File your exam petition

    Online, with the Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judicial Court, in Odyssey Guide and File. For the February 2027 exam, from November 2 to December 11, 2026. It costs US$815, plus a US$75 technology fee and the online system's charges, and it goes with two letters of recommendation and the recommendation of a lawyer licensed in the United States.

  4. Pass the UBE and the MPRE

    Massachusetts gives the UBE in February and July, and you pass with 270; from July 2028 it will give the NextGen exam, with 620 to pass. On the MPRE, the professional responsibility exam, you need 85.

  5. Pass the Massachusetts Law Component and the character review

    It is an online test, with no fee and with the materials at hand: 50 questions on 10 areas of Massachusetts law, and you pass with 40 correct. The Board reviews your character and fitness and recommends your admission to the Supreme Judicial Court, which admits you.

Without the full license, Massachusetts offers you two more routes: Foreign Legal Consultant, a limited license without examination, and registration as in-house counsel with the Board of Bar Overseers, to work as a company's lawyer. We explain them below.

Foreign Legal Consultant

Rule 3:05 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court lets the Court, at its discretion and on the recommendation of the Board of Bar Examiners, license you without examination to practice as a "Foreign Legal Consultant," with the limits below: among them, you may not advise on Massachusetts law or on U.S. law. You file your petition with the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, and the Board reviews whether you meet the requirements. If strict compliance with any provision would cause you undue hardship, you can ask the Court, by verified petition, to vary or waive it (Section 10).

Requirements

  • Be a member in good standing of a recognized legal profession in your country, whose members are admitted to practice as attorneys or counselors at law or the equivalent and are subject to effective regulation and discipline by a professional body or a public authority.
  • Have been a member in good standing of that profession for at least the 5 years immediately before your application, and have practiced during that time, in your country "or elsewhere," mainly giving advice or legal services on the law of your country.
  • The good moral character and general fitness required of a member of the Massachusetts bar.
  • The intention to practice in Massachusetts as a Foreign Legal Consultant and to maintain an office in the state for that purpose.
  • A certificate from the professional body or authority in your country with final jurisdiction over the discipline of lawyers, stating your admission, its date and that you are in good standing.
  • A letter of recommendation from a member of the executive body of that professional body or authority, or from a judge of the highest court or of a court of original jurisdiction of your country.
  • An authenticated English translation of the certificate and of the letter, if they are not in English.
  • Affidavits on your good moral character and fitness from three reputable people who live in Massachusetts and are not related to you; one of them must be a member of the Massachusetts bar. According to the form, two from residents and one from a Massachusetts attorney, as originals: photocopies are not accepted.
  • Any other evidence of your education, professional qualifications, character and fitness that the Board of Bar Examiners requires.
  • The petition (Petition for License to Practice as a Foreign Legal Consultant), with your original signature and that of a Massachusetts attorney who recommends you, and a statement with questions about your citizenship and, if you are not a U.S. citizen, your immigration details, your residences, your practice and your disciplinary and criminal history. Everything is filed in duplicate and together.
  • Reciprocity: it is not a fixed requirement, but the Board may, at its discretion, take into account whether a Massachusetts lawyer would have a reasonable and practical opportunity to open an office in your country to advise clients (Section 3).
  • The fee: US$510, non-refundable, by money order or bank check payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; personal and firm checks are not accepted. That is what the Court's current page on Foreign Legal Consultants (updated October 26, 2026), the form (page updated July 9, 2026) and NCBE state. To be confirmed with the Clerk's Office before you pay: the Court's general fee table, undated, says US$1,015.
  • Once the Board recommends you: you take the Foreign Legal Consultant oath, pay the registration fee and file a Massachusetts address with the instrument designating the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County as your agent for service of process (Section 7). According to the Court's page, the whole process can take 4 to 6 months.
  • If the Board does not recommend you, the Court denies your petition, but you have the right to request a hearing before the Court (Section 4.2).
  • Then you register with the Board of Bar Overseers (BBO) within three months and every year after that, with a document from each jurisdiction where you are admitted showing that you are in good standing, and you notify it within 14 days of any change of address or email (Rule 4:02(1A)). You also pay the annual fee under Rule 4:03, which the Court sets; its amount for a Foreign Legal Consultant: to be confirmed.
  • With the license you have the rights and obligations of a member of the bar under the Rules of Professional Conduct, subject to the limits below, and you can work with Massachusetts lawyers: employ them, work for them or for a firm that includes them or has an office in the state, or be their partner (Section 6).
  • If the Court determines that you no longer meet the requirements of Section 1, it revokes your license (Section 8). And if you are later admitted as a member of the Massachusetts bar, your lawyer's license supersedes the Foreign Legal Consultant license (Section 9).
  • The rule does not mention insurance or a minimum age.

What a Foreign Legal Consultant cannot do

  • Appear as attorney for another person before a Massachusetts court, magistrate or other judicial officer, except upon admission pro hac vice under section 39 of chapter 221 of the General Laws (below, under "Appearing in a single case").
  • Prepare instruments transferring or registering title to real estate located in the United States.
  • Prepare wills or trusts disposing on death of property located in the United States and owned by a U.S. resident, or instruments for administering a decedent's estate in the United States.
  • Prepare instruments on the marital or parental relations, rights or duties of a U.S. resident, or on the custody or care of their children.
  • Give professional legal advice on Massachusetts law or U.S. law, whether in preparing instruments or otherwise. The rule makes no exception for advice based on that of a Massachusetts lawyer.
  • Hold yourself out as a member of the Massachusetts bar, or practice under any name, title or designation other than your own name, your firm's name, your authorized title in your country (which may be used with the country's name) or the title "Foreign Legal Consultant," which may be used with the words "admitted to the practice of law in" and the name of your country.

Costs and fees

  • To apply: US$510, non-refundable, by money order or bank check payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to the Court's page (October 26, 2026), the form and NCBE. To be confirmed with the Clerk's Office before you pay: the Court's general fee table, undated, says US$1,015.
  • To keep it: Every year you register with the Board of Bar Overseers and pay the fee the Court sets (Rule 4:03); its amount for a Foreign Legal Consultant: to be confirmed.
  • Paid to: The petition, to the Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County, by mail and in duplicate. The annual registration, to the Board of Bar Overseers.

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With NAFA: we go through each requirement with you and your documents and, if you choose one-on-one guidance, we prepare the application together.

The bar exam

Rule 3:01 of the Supreme Judicial Court requires a graduate of a law school in another country to have a college and legal education that the Board of Bar Examiners considers similar in nature and quality to that of a graduate of an ABA-approved law school, and it lets the Board, at its discretion, require further legal studies at an ABA-approved law school (Section 3.2). Board Rule VI explains how: you may file your petition only if you have first obtained the Board's written decision that your education is sufficient.

Requirements for a foreign degree

  • Request that decision (a determination of educational sufficiency) at least four months before your petition, with a cover letter describing what you are asking for and why (Rule VI.2). According to the Board, the review takes at least four months from the time your file is complete: for the February exam, your documents must arrive by the first week of August of the year before; for the July exam, by the second week of January. An incomplete file is not reviewed.
  • The documents, in English or translated into English: official transcripts from every college, university and law school you attended, abroad or in the United States (not copies), with each course, its grade, the degree and its date; copies of your diplomas; a description of each course and how you studied it (in class or by distance learning); a certificate of admission and a certificate of good standing from each jurisdiction where you are admitted, with original signatures; and your résumé. According to the Board's page, also a copy of your official MPRE score report with 85 or higher. The documents are not returned.
  • The Board takes into account the legal system of your country, your studies compared with those of an ABA-approved law school, your pre-law education, your license, the length and nature of your practice or teaching, your familiarity with the U.S. constitutional, common-law and statutory systems, and any additional legal studies you have completed (Rule VI.3.1). You must prove that your education is similar in nature and quality to that of a graduate of an ABA-accredited law school (Rule VI.5).
  • The safe harbor if your country is a civil-law country (Rule VI.3.2(ii)): be admitted to practice in a foreign country; be in good standing in every jurisdiction where you are admitted; and have completed an LL.M. of at least 24 credit hours at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by a Massachusetts statute to grant it, including a course in basic constitutional law, one in professional responsibility and at least one course in three of the other subjects on the list. If you meet it, your education is deemed sufficient and you will not be required to take further studies.
  • The safe harbor if your country is a common-law country (Rule VI.3.2(i)): be admitted and in good standing in all your jurisdictions, and have completed 15 credit hours in those subjects, including basic constitutional law and professional responsibility, at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by a Massachusetts statute to grant the LL.B. or J.D.
  • The subjects on the list: business organizations, commercial law (contracts and the Uniform Commercial Code), constitutional law, criminal justice, property and estate planning, domestic relations, procedural law (federal evidence, jurisdiction and civil procedure), professional responsibility and torts. Distance, correspondence and online study do not count, and a law school in another country whose program is mainly by distance study does not count as a law school for the safe harbor.
  • Outside the safe harbor, the Board reviews each case: it may require further studies, which it designates, at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by Massachusetts; find you eligible to sit the exam; or, if you meet the other requirements, find you eligible for admission without examination (Rule VI.4). If you disagree, you can ask it by letter to reconsider (Rule VI.6).
  • According to NCBE, an LL.M. is not enough on its own ("Not automatically": it depends on its content and other facts), and you must prove that you are currently eligible to practice in your country. Rule VI does not require a credential evaluator's report: the Board reviews your documents.
  • If you graduated in common law from a Canadian law school that was a member of the Law School Admission Council when you graduated, Rule VI.7 treats you like a graduate of an ABA-approved law school.

Good to know

  • The exam is the UBE, NCBE's uniform exam, in February and July: in 2027, on February 23 and 24 and July 27 and 28. You pass with 270. From July 2028, Massachusetts will give the NextGen exam, with 620 to pass; the last UBE will be in February 2028, according to NCBE. On the MPRE you need 85.
  • The exam petition is filed online, in Odyssey Guide and File: for February 2027, from November 2 to December 11, 2026. It costs US$815 (a US$800 statutory fee and a US$15 surcharge), plus a US$75 technology fee, US$22 for the online system and a variable payment charge. It is non-refundable, and once accepted it cannot be deferred to another exam. It goes with two letters of recommendation, dated within the six months before filing, and the recommendation of a lawyer licensed in the United States, on the Court's form.
  • The Massachusetts Law Component, which the Board recommends taking after the exam: an online, open-book test with no fee, with 50 multiple-choice questions on 10 areas of Massachusetts law. You pass with 40 correct, you can retake it after 24 hours, with no limit on attempts, and you must pass it by September 30 if you sat the July exam, or by March 31 if you sat the February exam.
  • Transferring your score: Massachusetts accepts UBE scores of 270 or higher and, from the July 2026 exam, NextGen scores of 620 or higher, from an exam no more than five years before your petition (before July 1, 2026, it was 36 months). The petition costs US$815. With a foreign degree you also need, first, the Board's decision on your education (Rule VI.1).
  • In 2025, according to NCBE, the column for people educated outside the United States shows no figure for Massachusetts (it shows a dash).

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The exam, in figures

Verified on November 8, 2026. Dates and fees change every year: confirm them on the official site before you apply.

The exam
The UBE, NCBE's uniform exam, over two days. Also the Massachusetts Law Component, which the Board recommends taking after the exam: 50 online questions on Massachusetts law, open book, no fee; you pass with 40 correct. With a foreign degree, you first need the Board's decision on your education (Rule VI).
NextGen
From July 2028, with 620 to pass. The last UBE will be in February 2028, according to NCBE.
Next exams
February 23 and 24, 2027, and July 27 and 28, 2027.
Filing deadline
For February 2027, the petition is filed online from November 2 to December 11, 2026. With a foreign degree, your documents for the Board's decision had to arrive by the first week of August 2026; for July 2027, by the second week of January 2027.
Exam fee
US$815 (a US$800 statutory fee and a US$15 surcharge), plus a US$75 technology fee, US$22 for the online system and a variable payment charge. Non-refundable. ExamSoft is paid separately.
Passing score
270 on the UBE. On the NextGen, 620.
MPRE
Yes, with 85 or higher.
Educated abroad, 2025
NCBE's table shows no figure for Massachusetts in the column for people educated outside the U.S. (it shows a dash).

Board of Bar Examiners FAQs

Sources: Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners: FAQs regarding the bar exam (October 7, 2026) · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: guide to filing a petition for admission by examination (February 2027) · Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners: Foreign Educated Attorneys (deadlines for the education decision) · NCBE: Massachusetts admission requirements · NCBE: Massachusetts to administer the NextGen bar exam beginning July 2028 (March 25, 2025) · NCBE: Persons Taking and Passing the 2025 Bar Examination by Source of Legal Education

With NAFA: we guide you through each step of the route, and our courses prepare you in U.S. law and legal English. They do not replace the LL.M. or the studies the Board requires, which only count if they are at a law school accredited by the ABA or authorized by Massachusetts, and not by distance study.

Admission without exam for lawyers from other states

This is the route for a lawyer already licensed in another U.S. state (admission on motion). A license from another country or a Foreign Legal Consultant certification does not count.

Section 6.1 of Rule 3:01 lets you, if you are admitted to the highest court of another U.S. state, district or territory, petition the Supreme Judicial Court for admission without examination; the Board of Bar Examiners may, at its discretion, excuse you from the exam if you meet the conditions below. According to NCBE, it requires no degree from an ABA-approved law school and no reciprocity: the Board may accept a foreign degree with its prior approval.

Years of practice
5 of the last 7
Requires a degree from an ABA-approved law school
No
Only with reciprocity
No

Requirements

  • Have been admitted in another U.S. state, district or territory for at least five years before your petition, and have actively practiced or taught law in the United States for 5 of the 7 years immediately before it. Your license and your practice in your country do not count.
  • Have practiced or taught, since that admission, in a way that satisfies the Board of your good moral character and professional qualifications.
  • With a foreign degree, the Board's prior decision that your education is sufficient (Rule VI), the same one as for the exam, with the same documents and at least four months before. According to NCBE, the Board approves your education and your work history in advance.
  • The MPRE, with 85 or higher, if you have not passed it in another jurisdiction, and the Massachusetts Law Component.
  • The petition, online only: it costs US$1,015, plus the online system's charges, and it is non-refundable. It goes with letters of recommendation dated within the previous 90 days, certificates of admission and good standing from each jurisdiction where you are admitted, also dated within 90 days, and a grievance letter from each one, even if there are no complaints.
  • NCBE prepares the character and fitness investigation, at your expense, and the Board completes it with its own. According to the Court, the NCBE report takes about four months, and the petition can take a year or longer.

Good to know

  • Advantage: it is a route without examination that can work for you with a foreign degree, if you are licensed in another state, New York for example, and have 5 of the last 7 years of practice in the United States. But the Board decides at its discretion.

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How it works in the rest of the country

In-house counsel

Rule 4:02(9) of the Supreme Judicial Court lets a lawyer admitted in another U.S. jurisdiction or in a foreign jurisdiction, and not disbarred or suspended in any jurisdiction, practice in Massachusetts as in-house counsel for an organization if they register with the Board of Bar Overseers (BBO). Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5(d)(1) allows that work from an office in the state.

Requirements

  • Be admitted as a lawyer in your country and not be disbarred or suspended in any jurisdiction. Under Rule 5.5, you must be a member in good standing of a recognized legal profession in your country, whose members are admitted as lawyers or the equivalent and are subject to effective regulation and discipline (Rule 5.5(e)).
  • Work for a single organization or its organizational affiliates. If you are admitted only outside the United States, it cannot be a government entity. Nor can it be a company or firm that provides legal services to others.
  • According to the BBO, you must register if your principal office is in Massachusetts or if you otherwise maintain a systematic and continuous presence there on behalf of your employer.
  • An annual registration statement saying you will limit your practice in Massachusetts to in-house counsel work and identifying your organization, also signed by an authorized representative of it. The first one goes with a certificate of good standing from each jurisdiction where you are licensed, and every one states whether you are in good standing in each; if you are not in one of them, it explains why.
  • The fee: according to the BBO's form for in-house attorneys (undated), the registration fee is US$220 if you have been registered for fewer than five years, US$300 for five to fifty years and US$20 for fifty years or more, plus a voluntary US$51 Access to Justice fee, which you may opt out of. It is not prorated if you register for part of the year. NCBE (Chart 16) gives US$220 to US$300, without the US$20 tier.

What in-house counsel cannot do

  • Provide legal services to anyone other than your organization and its affiliates.
  • Services for which the court requires pro hac vice admission (Rule 4:02(9)(e)).
  • Provide free (pro bono) services: the rule allows them only for in-house counsel admitted in another U.S. jurisdiction.
  • Hold yourself out to the public as admitted in Massachusetts (Rule 5.5(b)(2)).

How to apply

  • You fill in the BBO form (Registration Statement for In-House Attorneys), with the signature of a representative of your organization and your certificates of good standing, and send it with the fee to the BBO's Registration Department in Boston.
  • Unless the BBO objects, once you have filed that first statement you may practice as in-house counsel, as described in it.

Once you are certified or registered

  • Register every year, with your organization's signature. According to the BBO, the cycle runs from June 1 to May 31 and the fee is due July 15.
  • If you change or leave your job, file a supplemental statement within 14 days, even if you continue as in-house counsel for another organization.
  • According to the BBO, in-house counsel cannot move to inactive or retired status.

Costs and fees

  • To apply: There is no separate application fee in the rule: with your first registration statement you pay the annual registration fee (below).
  • To keep it: Every year, US$220 if you have been registered for fewer than five years, US$300 for five to fifty years and US$20 for fifty years or more, plus a voluntary US$51 Access to Justice fee, according to the BBO's form (undated); NCBE (Chart 16) gives US$220 to US$300, without the US$20 tier. Not prorated; due July 15.
  • Paid to: The Board of Bar Overseers (BBO), with its paper form, by check or money order payable to the "Board of Bar Overseers."

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Appearing in a single case (pro hac vice)

Section 46A of chapter 221 of the Massachusetts General Laws lets a member in good standing of the bar of "any other state" appear, by permission of the court, in a case pending before it, if that state grants like privileges to Massachusetts lawyers. It does not mention lawyers from other countries. But Rule 3:05 contemplates that a Foreign Legal Consultant may appear upon admission pro hac vice under section 39 of the same chapter ("Attorneys from sister states; conditions for admissions"). That section is not about a single case: it admits "to practice in all the courts of the commonwealth" a citizen of the United States admitted as an attorney by the highest court of "any state, district, territory or country" of which they were an inhabitant. Whether a lawyer admitted only in another country can request pro hac vice admission: to be confirmed with the court.

Requirements

  • The motion is filed by a member of the Massachusetts bar, who remains associated with the case while you participate, according to the Appeals Court.
  • An affidavit from you setting out the facts that show you meet the statute and the courts' criteria. The court decides whether to grant permission.
  • A registration fee per case, non-refundable, to the Board of Bar Overseers: US$355 in the Superior Court, the Land Court or an appellate court (except the Appellate Divisions of the District Court and of the Boston Municipal Court, where it is US$101), and US$101 in other courts. It is not charged if you provide free legal assistance to an indigent client. Only an individual, not a firm, may request it (Rule 3:15).

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Temporary practice, without a state license

Handling a matter in the state on a temporary basis, without a license or registration there, as some rules allow a lawyer from another country to do: usually matters tied to the law of their own country or to international law.

Massachusetts Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5(c) allows temporary practice only for lawyers admitted in another U.S. jurisdiction. A lawyer admitted only in another country cannot use it. What Rule 5.5(d) does allow you, even with an office in the state, is above, under "In-house counsel," and below, under "Other routes."

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Other routes

  • Services you are authorized to provide by federal law or other Massachusetts law or rule (Rule of Professional Conduct 5.5(d)(2)): a lawyer admitted in another country, a member in good standing of a recognized and regulated legal profession, and not disbarred or suspended, may provide them even from an office in the state. Which services those are is decided by each law or by each agency's rules.
  • Remote work from Massachusetts: comment [4A] to Rule 5.5, which the Court added by order of March 12, 2024, effective April 1, 2024, says that lawyers not admitted in Massachusetts may remotely practice the law of the jurisdictions where they are licensed while physically present in the state, if they do not hold themselves out as admitted there, do not advertise an office in Massachusetts and do not provide or offer legal services in Massachusetts. The comment does not distinguish between U.S. lawyers and lawyers from other countries; whether it covers you: to be confirmed.
  • Careful: Rule 3:04, for lawyers enrolled in certain graduate criminal law or poverty law programs at a Massachusetts law school, or working with nonprofit legal services programs, is only for members of the bar of a U.S. state, district or territory, even though the Court's page presents it under the title "Foreign Practitioners."

After Massachusetts

What a Massachusetts license opens for you, or not, in other states if your degree is from another country.

  • Your UBE score travels, your license does not: other UBE jurisdictions may accept the score you earned in Massachusetts, each with its own minimum score, its time limit and its own requirements for a foreign degree. From July 2028, the NextGen exam will serve the same purpose among the jurisdictions that give it, according to NCBE.
  • Careful: admission without examination does not work for you everywhere. According to NCBE, 31 of the 56 jurisdictions in its table require a degree from an ABA-approved law school for it, and a foreign degree with an LL.M. is not one; 17 do not require it, and for the other 8 the table gives neither a yes nor a no.

Good to know

In Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court issues the rules and admits lawyers. The Board of Bar Examiners, five attorneys appointed by the justices of the Court for five-year terms, reviews all petitions for admission, gives the exam twice a year, reviews character and fitness and makes its recommendations to the Court, which holds admission ceremonies in November and June. Petitions are filed with the Clerk's Office of the Court for the County of Suffolk. The Board of Bar Overseers (BBO) keeps the annual registration of lawyers, Foreign Legal Consultants and in-house counsel.

In the character and fitness review, the Board considers good character to be the degree of honesty, integrity and discretion that the public and the members of the bench and the bar have the right to demand of a lawyer, and you must establish by clear and convincing evidence your current good character and fitness (Board Rule V). If you sit the exam, the Board conducts its own investigation based on the answers in your petition; if you apply for admission without examination, NCBE prepares it and the Board completes it.

We did not find in the rules of the Supreme Judicial Court a general continuing legal education requirement for lawyers. The one that applied to newly admitted lawyers, the "Practicing with Professionalism" course under Rule 3:16, was repealed on August 14, 2024.

According to NCBE, Massachusetts licensed 1 new Foreign Legal Consultant in 2024 and 7 in 2025; for 2021 to 2023, its table shows none.

General information, not legal advice. Rules change: always check the official source before you make a decision. Last reviewed: November 8, 2026.

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