Wake Up Call: California Botches Bar Exam for Two Test Takers

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of legal industry moves and other news.

• The California Bar copped to giving some test takers the wrong version of the bar exam during during a July sitting in Sacramento. “Two applicants were inadvertently provided with the February 2023 afternoon exam questions, rather than the intended July 2023 afternoon exam questions,” according to the Bar. (Above The Law)
• McGuireWoods has launched a partnership with legal tech provider CaseText for the firm to use a legal assistant tool powered by ChatGPT-4. The tool “performs substantive tasks such as legal research, document review, deposition preparation and contract analysis,” according to McGuireWoods and CaseText. (McGuireWoods)
• A Dallas law firm’s controller pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges stemming from a nearly $1.5 million payroll fraud scheme. Christiane Irwin is accused of bilking her unidentified firm by instructing an outside payroll vendor to pay her $30,000 to $50,000 more than her actual annual salary for more than three straight years. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

Laterals, Moves, In-house

• David Tressler has been appointed to chief legal officer of 6K, a sustainable producer of materials for batteries and additive manufacturing
• Jeff Shapiro has joined King & Spalding as a partner with the government matters practice group in Washington, D.C.

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