November 25, 2025 - A new impact brief from the State Bar of California’s Office of Access & Inclusion warns that budget cuts could undermine California’s legal aid infrastructure, threatening access ...

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 State Bar of California headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) An influential California legislator is pressuring the State Bar of ...

While California law school deans want the state bar to adopt the National Conference of Bar Examiners' NextGen exam, some at ...

A state bar official said some of the complaints his office is seeing appear to be influenced or written by artificial ...

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.

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 ...

April 2 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California on Wednesday held off on approving a proposal to enable those who took or withdrew from its troubled February bar exam to temporarily practice under the ...

(TNS) — Nearly two months after hundreds of prospective California lawyers complained that their bar exams were plagued with technical problems and irregularities, the state's legal licensing body has ...

July 10 (Reuters) - The State Bar of California pursued too many changes at once, setting the stage for the problem-plagued February attorney licensing exam, the agency’s former executive director ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The State Bar of California approved an ethics rule that would subject lawyers to discipline for having sex with their clients. The bar's Board of Trustees passed the rule Thursday as ...