07/14/2020

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA Case Number: PR 06-0422

PR 06-0422

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF E OR1G NA, SHANNON M. HEIM JUL 1 4 2020 ORDER Bowen Greenwood Clerk of Suprerne Court State of Montana

Shannon M. Heim has petitioned the Court to waive the three-year test requirement for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination (MPRE) for purposes of her application for admission by motion to the State Bar of Montana. By rule, applicants for admission by motion must provide evidence of the requisite score on an MPRE taken "within three years preceding the date of the application for admission."

Rule IV.A.3, Rules of Admission. Heim passed the MPRE in 1999 when seeking admission to the practice of law in Virginia. She was admitted to the Virginia Bar and, in 2001, she moved to Minnesota and was adrnitted to the practice of law there. She is also a rnember of the Alaska and Michigan bars. Heim has practiced law continuously for years "without any ethical or disciplinary issues in any jurisdiction where licensed or where admitted pro hac vice." Good cause appearing, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the petition of Shannon M. Heim to waive the three-year test requirernent for the MPRE for purposes of her current application for admission by motion to the State Bar of Montana is GRANTED.

The Clerk shall mail a copy of this order to Petitioner and to the Administrator of the Board of Bar Exarniners at the State Bar of Montana.

DATED this P--Pday of July, 2020.

Chief Justice (6?/-? (-40/ eS)-; / A4 Justices