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Lower passing score will not be applied retroactively to previous Bar Exam takers, court writes in letter to State Bar.

May 9-13 is Juror Appreciation Week, but courts are making the jury system better all year with check-in kiosks, text reminders, and web-based services.

The California Supreme Court on Thursday announced it will permanently lower the passing score for the California Bar Exam and released plans for an October test administered online.

The California Supreme Court ordered the July California Bar Exam be postponed to Sept. 9-10, and directed the State Bar to make every effort to administer the test online with remote or electronic proctoring.

Since April, the state Supreme Court rolled a large screen television into its San Francisco courtroom to conduct oral arguments.

Court of Appeal in Fresno spearheads projects to modernize and expand access to justice for Californians appealing their cases.

Webcasts of the court’s oral arguments have been accessed more than 44,000 times since it began streaming them last year.

At its January 17 meeting, the council received a final report on a three-year grant supporting 39 collaborative court and pretrial programs that tracked retention, recidivism, and failure to appear rates for participating defendants.

The Supreme Court of California on Wednesday released a final report from its investigation into the disclosure of the exam topics for the July 2019 Bar exam. 

The Supreme Court of California on Friday announced three appointments to the State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners. 

The Joint Supreme Court/State Bar Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the California Bar Exam will develop recommendations on whether to make changes to the California Bar Exam.

Thousands more law school graduates with qualifying prior bar exam scores will be able to work as fully licensed attorneys after completing supervised practice hours.