Kansas
Common questions
Can a lawyer be admitted in Kansas without taking the bar exam (admission on motion)?
Admission on motion available. Must have been admitted by examination elsewhere, hold active license, be eligible under Rule 708, never suspended/disbarred/loss of license, and lawfully engaged in active practice for five of seven years preceding application
Does Kansas accept a transferred Uniform Bar Exam score?
Accepted via score transfer; minimum UBE score 266; exam within 60 months of application; MPRE 80 required
What are the pro hac vice requirements and fee in Kansas state courts?
Local counsel: Yes. Kansas attorney regularly practicing in Kansas, in good standing; must actively participate, sign all documents, attend court appearances, depositions and mediations Fee: $100 nonrefundable (waivable for government or indigent representation)
Admission on motion
- Requirements
- Must have been admitted by examination elsewhere, hold active license, be eligible under Rule 708, never suspended/disbarred/loss of license, and lawfully engaged in active practice for five of seven years preceding application
- Years of practice
- has lawfully engaged in the active practice of law for five of the seven years immediately preceding the date of the application
- Fee
- $1,250 (Rule 719 reciprocity)
- Rule
- Kan. Sup. Ct. R. 719
- UBE score transfer
- Accepted via score transfer; minimum UBE score 266; exam within 60 months of application; MPRE 80 required
- UBE minimum
- 266
- UBE score window
- within 60 months of the date the applicant submitted the application for admission to the Kansas bar
- MPRE
- minimum score of 80 on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination
- Other routes
- Temporary Permit to Practice Law (Rule 718); Restricted License for Military Spouse (Rule 720); Restricted License to Provide Legal Services for a Single Employer (Rule 721)
- Military spouse
- Restricted License for Military Spouse
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- Reciprocity
- Not in the pulled documents
- Reciprocity states
- Not in the pulled documents
- Foreign attorneys
- Not in the pulled documents
State-court pro hac vice
- Rule
- Kan. Sup. Ct. R. 116
- Local counsel
- Yes. Kansas attorney regularly practicing in Kansas, in good standing; must actively participate, sign all documents, attend court appearances, depositions and mediations
- Limits
- Admission for a particular case only; separate motion per case; ICWA exception for tribal attorneys
- Fee
- $100 nonrefundable (waivable for government or indigent representation)
- Procedure
- Kansas attorney files motion with verified application of out-of-state attorney, no later than date out-of-state attorney files pleading or appears; statement of good standing in each bar; disclosure of prior discipline/pending actions
Language from the source documents
10 quoted passages
On motion
(5) has lawfully engaged in the active practice of law for five of the seven years immediately preceding the date of the application.courtrules.net
Other routes
Rule 720 Restricted License for Military Spouse Rule 721 Restricted License to Provide Legal Services for a Single Employercourtrules.net
Local counsel
(3) associates with a Kansas attorney of record in the case who is registered as active under Supreme Court Rule 206 and is in good standing under the Supreme Court Rules.kscourts.gov
Pro hac vice fee
The attorney must submit a nonrefundable fee of $300, payable to the clerk of the district court, with each motion for admission pro hac vice.kscourts.gov
UBE score window
(1) achieves a minimum passing score as stated in subsection (b) on an examination that occurred within 60 months of the date the applicant submitted the application for admission to the Kansas bar;courtrules.net
MPRE
(3) achieves a minimum score of 80 on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination and ensures that the National Conference of Bar Examiners or the testing jurisdiction provides the score to the Attorney Admissions office;courtrules.net