An influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of California to ditch its new multiple-choice questions after a February bar exam debacle and revert to the traditional test format in ...

The State Bar of California’s botched rollout of a new exam — a move that the cash-strapped agency made in the hopes of saving money — could ultimately end up costing it an additional $5.6 million.

(TNS) — Nearly two months after hundreds of prospective California lawyers complained that their bar exams were plagued with technical problems and irregularities, the state's legal licensing body has ...

New internal documents show the contractor whose software failed during California’s February 2025 bar exam knew it couldn’t ...

The State Bar of California has announced that retakes of the state's new bar exam will be offered as test takers reported numerous issues with the two-day test used to license attorneys. Following ...

6:43 a.m. March 4, 2025: An earlier version of this story said test taker Ray Hayden could not afford to go to California to take the bar exam. In fact, he considered the journey a waste of money.

Oct 11 (Reuters) - California bar examinees will be able to take the attorney licensing test from outside the Golden State once the new exam gets final approval for a February launch. The State Bar of ...

State Bar of California at 845 S Figueroa in Los Angeles, CA. Photo: Amanda Bronstad/ALM Citing ongoing frustration with the run-up to the Feb. 25-26 bar exam, California's state bar Thursday evening ...

The California Supreme Court should reject the Bar’s approach and restore sanity to a process that matters so much to the practice of law. Getty Images/iStockphoto Sometimes bad decisions lead to even ...

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