California is likely to return to a fully in-person bar exam after the state's rollout of its new test was marred by widespread technical problems during its debut last week.

The State Bar has been scrambling both to develop remedies for the February examinees and to plan for July. Unfortunately, ...

The California Supreme Court will step up its oversight of the state’s lawyer admissions following the chaotic February bar ...

The California Committee of Bar Examiners recommended Friday that the state’s highest court expand a pre-license program to ...

Some students also filed a complaint Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing Meazure Learning, the company that administered the exam, of “failing ...

LATEST, Feb. 28 The fallout from the State Bar of California’s messy rollout of its new bar exam continues to escalate, as test takers have now filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit ...

The California Supreme Court will tighten its oversight of the State Bar as it investigates the February Bar Exam, Chief ...

As California's online bar exam was plagued with another day of system crashes, freezes and late starts, leaders of the state Supreme Court and the state bar on Wednesday declined to say whether ...

A lawmaker has called for an investigation. By Orlando Mayorquín Even under normal circumstances, the California bar exam is one final harrowing hurdle before aspiring lawyers can practice.

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.

On the edge of the Mendocino bluffs, where the Pacific Ocean crashes against rugged cliffs, sits Dick’s Place, a bar that has withstood ... a story and a piece of California history.