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.

An exterior of the State Bar of California headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) An influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of ...

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.

(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 ...

April 2 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California on Wednesday held off on approving a proposal to enable those who took or withdrew from its troubled February bar exam to temporarily practice under the ...

Sept 19 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California’s plan to give its own bar exam starting in February hit a snag on Wednesday when the California Supreme Court denied its petition to make that change.

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 ...

(TNS) — California's first bar exam to be prepared by a private contractor accomplished one of its main goals in February, lowering financial costs for the deficit-plagued state bar. And its passage ...

The State Bar of California has asked the state's Supreme Court to lower the raw passing score for February's bar exam after complaints of a chaotic test rollout."I would type something and there ...

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 against ...

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 ...