{"id":118326,"date":"2025-05-08T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/08\/the-california-bar-was-so-bad-that-the-exam-vendor-is-getting-sued-over-it\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:02:33","slug":"the-california-bar-was-so-bad-that-the-exam-vendor-is-getting-sued-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/08\/the-california-bar-was-so-bad-that-the-exam-vendor-is-getting-sued-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The California Bar Was So Bad That The Exam Vendor Is Getting Sued Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the spirit of bar prep, let\u2019s IRAC this. The California Bar had an issue: they looked at their budget and realized that they\u2019d go bankrupt <\/a>if they continued administering the bar as usual. Rules are rules, though; you\u2019ve gotta have some way of determining minimum competency. To conclude, they had to hastily come up with a new, experimental, partially crafted by AI<\/a> test to administer. You may have noticed that the Application part of IRAC was glossed over. That\u2019s what the State Bar of California\u2019s most recent lawsuit against Meazure Learning is about. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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The state bar, represented by partners from Hueston Hennigan, said it is seeking an unspecified amount of damages from Meazure. The state bar signed a $4.1 million contract with the company in September 2024 to administer the exam.
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Some test takers were\u00a0unable to log into the bar exam\u00a0at all, while many experienced delays, lax exam security, distracting proctors, and a copy-and-paste function that didn\u2019t work. The state bar alleged that Meazure disabled its own spell-check feature because it froze the platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As if the faulty spell-check feature wasn\u2019t enough, some test takers allege that they couldn\u2019t even type out words without dealing with lagging letters. Few things in life inspire irrationally non-reciprocal anger quite like non-responsive keyboards. The California Bar has since tried to save face by issuing refunds<\/a> and free chances to retake the horrid exam<\/a>, but a fig leaf and good PR will only go so far in fixing California\u2019s now established bad bar reputation. They ultimately decided to crawl back to the NCBE for their testing needs<\/a>. While that should be a breath of relief for anyone taking the July test, suing Meazure over the February fiasco could be a great way for the Bar to get some of the heat off of their name. The payoff probably won\u2019t be that grand, but we all know that they are willing to try anything<\/em> at this point. <\/p>\n

California Bar Sues Vendor Over Exam Meltdown<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: The California Bar Is Flat Broke And Its Plan To Fix This Involves Throwing Out The Existing Bar Exam<\/a><\/p>\n

California Bar Exam Disaster Reaches Its \u2018Offer Everyone A Refund\u2019 Stage<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy One Get One Free Cal Bar Exams!<\/a><\/p>\n

California Bar Reveals It Used AI For Exam Questions, Because Of Course It Did<\/a><\/p>\n

California\u2019s Bar Exam Fiasco Enters Next Stage Of Stupid<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post The California Bar Was So Bad That The Exam Vendor Is Getting Sued Over It<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the spirit of bar prep, let\u2019s IRAC this. The California Bar had an issue: they looked at their budget and realized that they\u2019d go bankrupt <\/a>if they continued administering the bar as usual. Rules are rules, though; you\u2019ve gotta have some way of determining minimum competency. To conclude, they had to hastily come up with a new, experimental, partially crafted by AI<\/a> test to administer. You may have noticed that the Application part of IRAC was glossed over. That\u2019s what the State Bar of California\u2019s most recent lawsuit against Meazure Learning is about. Reuters<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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The state bar, represented by partners from Hueston Hennigan, said it is seeking an unspecified amount of damages from Meazure. The state bar signed a $4.1 million contract with the company in September 2024 to administer the exam.
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Some test takers were\u00a0unable to log into the bar exam\u00a0at all, while many experienced delays, lax exam security, distracting proctors, and a copy-and-paste function that didn\u2019t work. The state bar alleged that Meazure disabled its own spell-check feature because it froze the platform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As if the faulty spell-check feature wasn\u2019t enough, some test takers allege that they couldn\u2019t even type out words without dealing with lagging letters. Few things in life inspire irrationally non-reciprocal anger quite like non-responsive keyboards. The California Bar has since tried to save face by issuing refunds<\/a> and free chances to retake the horrid exam<\/a>, but a fig leaf and good PR will only go so far in fixing California\u2019s now established bad bar reputation. They ultimately decided to crawl back to the NCBE for their testing needs<\/a>. While that should be a breath of relief for anyone taking the July test, suing Meazure over the February fiasco could be a great way for the Bar to get some of the heat off of their name. The payoff probably won\u2019t be that grand, but we all know that they are willing to try anything<\/em> at this point. <\/p>\n

California Bar Sues Vendor Over Exam Meltdown<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: The California Bar Is Flat Broke And Its Plan To Fix This Involves Throwing Out The Existing Bar Exam<\/a><\/p>\n

California Bar Exam Disaster Reaches Its \u2018Offer Everyone A Refund\u2019 Stage<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy One Get One Free Cal Bar Exams!<\/a><\/p>\n

California Bar Reveals It Used AI For Exam Questions, Because Of Course It Did<\/a><\/p>\n

California\u2019s Bar Exam Fiasco Enters Next Stage Of Stupid<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s<\/a>. \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a>\u00a0and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post The California Bar Was So Bad That The Exam Vendor Is Getting Sued Over It<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Image via Getty) In the spirit of bar prep, let\u2019s IRAC this. The California Bar had an issue: they looked at their budget and realized that they\u2019d go bankrupt if they continued administering the bar as usual. Rules are rules, though; you\u2019ve gotta have some way of determining minimum competency. To conclude, they had to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Williams-620x620-eOgiis.jpeg?fit=620%2C620&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}