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Meanwhile, California Senate Judiciary Chair Thomas J. Umberg, D-Santa Ana, called for an audit of the State Bar and the California Supreme Court directed the agency to revert to traditional in ...
The State Bar of California pursued too many changes at once, setting the stage for the problem-plagued February attorney licensing exam, the agency’s former executive director said.
The State Bar expects to pay around $5.6 million to offer free exams to test takers, book in-person testing sites and return the exam to its traditional system of questions for its July test.
Though a technical fiasco, the February 2025 bar exam produced historic pass rates for California-accredited law schools. Can ...
Fresno City Attorney Andrew Janz was not allowed to practice law for the first two weeks of July, according to the State Bar ...
California’s new bar exam debuted in February and was administered both remotely and in-person. It did not use any components of the national bar exam that the state has used for decades. That ...
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 ...
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.
The grading change affected 230 test takers in the State Bar of California's latest attempt to mitigate the fallout of its disastrous February test, which was plagued with technical and logistical ...
On Thursday, the State Bar postponed a retake of the test originally scheduled for March 3-4 to March 18-19, saying the delay was necessary after exam questions were leaked online, the LA Times ...
The California State Bar has long served as a mechanism to keep certain groups—working-class students, first-generation professionals, and those from marginalized communities—out of the legal ...
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 ...