Section 1. Before the release of the results of the Indiana bar examination, the Board of Law Examiners shall review the written answers of all applicants who are within five (5) points of achieving a passing score of 264 on the examination to confirm that the written answers have been graded correctly. Applicants may not appeal the results of the examination. The determination by the Board of Law Examiners whether to treat an applicant as having passed the bar examination shall be final, subject to general principles of procedural due process.Section 2. Any applicant aggrieved by the final action of the State Board of Law Examiners in refusing to recommend to the Supreme Court of Indiana the admission of the applicant to practice law in Indiana for any reason other than the failure to pass any examination may, within twenty (20) days of receipt of notification setting forth the reason for refusal, file a petition with the Supreme Court of Indiana requesting review by this Court of such final determination. The notification referenced herein shall be sent to the applicant by certified mail with return receipt requested. In the petition the applicant shall set forth specifically the reasons, in fact or law, assigned as error in the Board's determination. The Court may order further consideration of the application, in which event the State Board of Law Examiners shall promptly transmit to the Court the complete file relating to such applicant and his or her application, including the transcript of the record of any hearing held by the State Board of Law Examiners relating thereto. The Court shall enter such order as in its judgment is proper, which shall thereupon become final. The petition for review must be accompanied by a fifty dollar ($50.00) filing fee unless the petitioner previously paid an application fee to the State Board of Law Examiners as provided in these rules. Ind. R. Att'y Adm. & Discip. 14
Adopted effective 3/10/1953; amended effective 2/9/1971; amended Aug. 21, 1972, effective 9/1/1972; amended effective 3/5/1973; amended Nov. 24, 1975, effective 1/31/1976; amended Dec. 5, 1994, effective 2/1/1995; amended Dec. 22, 2000, effective 1/1/2001; amended Sept. 7, 2012, effective 1/1/2013; amended June 30, 2014, effective 6/30/2014; amended February 24, 2021, effective 2/24/2021.