Image from Shutterstock. For decades, the Uniform Bar Examination has been old school, with bar candidates using paper-and-pencil exam books. But starting with the first administration of the […]
CA Supreme Court OKs Limited Licenses for Some Who Failed February 2025 Bar Exam
California’s Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to provisionally license only a subset of applicants who withdrew from or failed the disastrous February 2025 bar exam, dashing the hopes […]
Rhode Island Becomes 36th State to Adopt NextGen Bar Exam
Rhode Island becomes the 36th state, and 40th jurisdiction, to announce plans to adopt the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam (NextGen UBE), the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) […]
California State Bar Sues Testing Vendor Over Botched February Exam
California’s state bar on Monday sued the vendor that administered its disastrous February 2025 bar exam, accusing the testing company of misleading agency leaders about its technical and […]
State Bar Defends AI Use on Bar Exam, Asks Calif. Supreme Court to Lower Passing Score
In a late-night filing, the state bar asked the California Supreme Court on Tuesday to reduce the raw score needed to pass the February bar exam, acknowledging that […]
California Law School Deans Want NCBE Questions Returned for July Bar Exam
Citing concerns about the integrity of California’s February 2025 bar exam, 14 law school deans in the state have asked the state Supreme Court to return to using […]
What’s Next After Fretful California Bar Exam?
In a classic anxiety dream come to life—thankfully with clothes on—about 5,600 law graduates were set to sit the February California Bar Exam, and faced technical problems like […]
Remedies for Botched Bar Exam? Not So Fast, State Bar Says
California state bar leaders on Wednesday said applicants who endured last week’s tech-troubled bar exam will have to wait until their tests are graded before learning whether they’ll […]
Who Answers for Botched February California Bar Exam? So Far, Nobody
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 […]
State Bar Offers Exam Retakes but Few Answers About Testing Fiasco
California’s state bar late Thursday announced limited retake opportunities for some people who endured this week’s troubled bar exam, raising new questions about how the lawyer-licensing agency will […]