State Bar of California at 845 S Figueroa in Los Angeles, CA. Photo: Amanda Bronstad/ALM Citing ongoing frustration with the run-up to the Feb. 25-26 bar exam, California's state bar Thursday evening ...

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 influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of California to ditch its new multiple-choice questions after a February bar exam debacle and revert to the traditional test format in ...

We, as applicants for the February 2025 California Bar Exam, expected a fair assessment of our legal knowledge and reasoning. Instead, we encountered widespread technical failures — so severe that ...

The pass rate for first-time takers who sat for the bar exam rose by more than a percentage point in 2025 over 2024, according to new data from the managing director’s office of the Council of the ABA ...

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.

Those registered for the Feb. 25-26 exam say they've been misled about the availablility of testing sites and had their site reservations revoked without explanation. With the February bar exam just ...