Along with graduating from law school and passing a state bar exam, you must pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) if you want to practice law in most jurisdictions in the United States (all but three). The MPRE is designed to test your knowledge of two relatively short documents, the American Bar Association (ABA) Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct, as well as your "understanding of the generally accepted rules, principles, and common law regulating the legal profession in the United States." Any amendments to the ABA Model Rules or Model Code will not appear on the MPRE until one year after the ABA's approval of those amendments"--