The State Bar of California sought to save money with a new bar exam that offered the choice of remote test taking. Test takers complained of glitches and chaos when taking the test. Test takers ...

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 step up its oversight of the state’s lawyer admissions following the chaotic February bar ...

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

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.

In their first public comments on last week's glitch-plagued bar exam, California's Supreme Court justices on Tuesday said they were "deeply concerned" and ordered the July exam to be administered ...

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 ...

Test takers seeking to practice law in California experienced chaos this week as the State Bar of California fumbled the rollout of its new attorney licensing test, leaving many unable to complete ...

An exterior of the California State Bar headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles on March 2, 2021. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...