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 California State Bar headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles on March 2, 2021. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Test takers seeking to practice law in California ...

Feb 24 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California will allow those who fail its February bar exam to retake the attorney licensing test in July for free in response to the new test’s rocky rollout.

June 6 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California said on Thursday that it has hired a consulting firm to review the scoring of its February bar exam, adding to the millions the organization has spent to ...

May 19, 2025 (LAPost.com) — The State Bar of California’s effort to reduce costs by incorporating artificial intelligence into its bar exam process has backfired dramatically. According to Reuters, ...

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California's state bar has found nine more people who were erroneously told they failed the February 2025 bar exam when they had, in fact, passed. The latest revelation brings to 13 the number of ...