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.

California, the second-largest bar exam jurisdiction after New York, saw 12,235 aspiring attorneys complete the test in 2024. Tuesday’s test debuted California’s hybrid, two-day licensing exam ...

The California Supreme Court in July 2020 lowered the cut, or passing, score on the bar exam from 144 to 139 starting with the October 2020 exam. Fifty percent of July 2019 test-takers passed ...

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 ...

California lawmakers are scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss the February bar exam. Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange), chair of the state Senate Judiciary Committee, has already proposed ...

Reports from test-takers, confirmed by the bar, said that glitchy technology and dropped platform connections affected many of the approximately 5,000 people taking the exam. A spokesperson for ...

The State Bar of California has finalized a $8.25 million deal with test prep company Kaplan Exam Services to produce the state’s bar exam for the next five years, the attorney licensing body ...

California gave a shortened online bar exam in October 2020, followed by a full-length remote exam in February and July of this year. Each time was marred by technical issues, though the problems ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — With the California bar exam just days away, California Supreme Court Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye rejected a bid from more than a dozen law school deans to drop remote proctoring ...

Just days before nearly 9,000 people are set to take California’s two-day bar exam, the State Bar of California disclosed late Saturday that a list of general exam topics was “inadvertently ...