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.

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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.

LOS ANGELES — Thousands of people took the new California bar exam in February, ready to join the ranks of the state’s 195,000 lawyers. But a series of missteps by the institution responsible for ...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - A trio of test takers on Thursday filed what looks to be the first lawsuit over California’s problem-plagued February bar exam, alleging that exam vendor Meazure Learning failed to ...

The California Supreme Court directed the State Bar of California to revert to traditional in-person administering of July bar exams after a new testing system created chaos and complaints. The new ...