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 ...

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.

May 5 (Reuters) - California will not administer its newly developed bar exam in July, after the state’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered a return to the previous test following a disastrous rollout in ...

May 14 (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the state bar accused Meazure Learning of overpromising its ability to administer the lawyer-licensing exam, a bar committee Monday endorsed provisionally licensing those who failed the February ...

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 ...

The State Board of Education is moving forward with plans to add the state’s science assessment to the California School Dashboard, making it a new piece of the statewide school accountability system.

A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States was cleared to gather signatures late last month. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, the ...