Though a technical fiasco, the February 2025 bar exam produced historic pass rates for California-accredited law schools. Can ...

The State Bar of California pursued too many changes at once, setting the stage for the problem-plagued February attorney ...

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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.

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 State Bar of California is looking to develop its own bar exam, parting ways with the National Conference of Bar Examiners and rejecting its overhauled licensing test set to debut in July 2026.

For over 40 years, there have been three parts to the California Bar Examination. One part, a full day of the two-day test, is comprised of 200 multiple choice questions.

The NCBE's exam security would not allow any form of remote testing, he said, and the State Bar's recent surveys showed almost 50 percent of California bar applicants want to keep the remote option.

Last year, as the State Bar of California faced a $22.2-million deficit, it decided to replace the test questions developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners' Multistate Bar Examination ...

Using forecasted 2025 applicant numbers, the price increase will result in approximately $1 million in MBE costs in 2025, should the State Bar have to purchase questions for that exam from the ...

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence. The legal ...