First Adopted: February 01, 1972
Most Recently Effective: July 01, 2010
Rule 8 | Rules Governing The Missouri Bar and the Judiciary | Admission to the Bar
8.01 | The Board of Law Examiners
(a) The Board of Law Examiners shall be composed of at least six members of The Missouri Bar learned in the law. This Court shall appoint each member for a term of nine years exclusive of any unexpired term. Any members appointed after March 1, 2001, should not be called on to serve more than one term.
The members of the board shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation prior to the assumption of their official duties to discharge faithfully and impartially the duties of their office.
The board shall designate one of its members to serve as president and one as vice-president.
This Court may remove any member of the board and may also fill any vacancies on the board due to death, resignation or inability to serve.
The members of the board shall receive such compensation as may be allowed by this Court out of funds arising from application fees.
The Court may appoint an executive director of the board who shall serve at the pleasure of the Court.
(b) All appropriate expenses for operations, equipment and expenses shall be paid from funds arising from application fees. After the payment of expenses following the July bar examination, funds remaining in the Board of Law Examiners account that exceed anticipated expenses may be disbursed, with the approval of the Court, to the Advisory Committee fund, the board of trustees of The Missouri Bar, and to The Missouri Bar in such amounts as the Court shall determine to meet the needs of such entities.
(Adopted February 1, 1972, effective September 1, 1972. Amended June 29, 1993, effective June 29, 1993; amended October 16, 1995, effective March 1, 1996; amended October 14, 1999, effective October 14, 1999; amended July 3, 2001, effective August 1, 2001; amended September 3, 2003, effective October 1, 2003; amended March 7, 2005, effective July 1, 2005; amended March 29, 2006, effective March 29, 2006; amended September 21, 2009, effective September 21, 2009; amended April 8, 2010, effective July 1, 2010.)