Hawai‘i Bar Exam Deadline Extended for Applicants

In light of the continuing increase in COVID-19 cases on O‘ahu, the Hawai‘i Supreme Court issued an order extending the deadline for bar applicants to choose to defer taking the exam to a future date with no additional application fee or pursue a provisional license good through July 1, 2022.

The original deadline to defer or apply for a provisional license was July 28. The bar applicants now have until Sept. 9 — the first day of the Hawai‘i State Bar Exam — to make a choice.

Currently, there are 120 applicants who have chosen to take the written exam using their laptops. The exam will be administered Sept. 9-10 at the Hawai‘i Convention Center in a 59,000-square-foot exhibition hall. Each applicant will be seated alone at an eight-foot table, with at least 10 feet between each table.

The court’s order includes an attachment that was provided to all applicants in early August, detailing information about the numerous safety precautions being taken to protect the health of the bar applicants, as well as those administering the exam.