Nova Scotia’s law society is joining three of its Canadian counterparts in adopting a bar admission program officials say will better prepare would-be lawyers for the realities of practising law.

The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS) is adopting the Practice Readiness Education Program (PREP) as its evaluative tool and will be doing away with its current bar admission exam. 

Three more exams will run into 2020 for applicants who are already registered as of November 2019. Beyond that, the current program will be replaced with the PREP, which was created by the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED). READ THE ARTICLE.