Bill to audit state Bar exam advances

California’s February Bar Exam, that was supposed to save the cash-strapped Bar about $3.8 million annually, instead is expected to cost $5.6 million, Maia Spoto reports.

The estimate accounts for $3 million in fee waivers, around $2 million to book testing sites, and around $620,000 to return to the Multistate Bar Exam in July, said Bar executive director Leah Wilson, who will step down after her term ends in July. The cost breakdown came during a 90-minute hearing Tuesday, during which the California Senate Judiciary Committee approved launching an audit into the February bar exam that glitched and crashed widely, ...