Aspiring California Attorneys Sue Over Bar Exam ‘Disaster’

The company administering California’s February 2025 Bar Exam is facing a proposed class of test takers for “failing spectacularly” to run the licensing exam.

ProctorU Inc., which does business as Meazure Learning, administered the exam for thousands of applicants with software that “simply did not work,” despite fielding reports of technical glitches and customer service issues for weeks, the Thursday complaint said.

Meazure Learning representatives falsely claimed some issues had been resolved before applicants sat for the test that began Tuesday, the complaint said. Still, online testing windows crashed, essays failed to save, and examinees couldn’t copy or paste text.

The issues fueled panic for applicants who watched time slip away as they were physically prevented from completing one of the most difficult Bar exams in the country, said the complaint.

“As a result of the total technical breakdown that Meazure caused, the Exam was a disaster for test-takers who were traumatized, who had their career ambitions delayed, and who paid Meazure a fee for a defunct Platform,” said the complaint, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The complaint, which appears to be the first filed over the exam’s rollout, doesn’t name the State Bar of California as a defendant.

Still, it says the State Bar and Meazure “fast-tracked” the test and ran it on “rushed” software that wasn’t prepared to accommodate a forseeable number of test-takers, the complaint said.

“Knowing that applicants would likely fail this crucial test because of Meazure’s inadequate response to the problems with its testing platform, the State Bar offered a fee waiver to applicants to retake the exam in July,” the complaint said.

The State Bar and Meazure Learning didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The claims against Meazure could exceed $5 million, the complaint said.

The State Bar’s Board of Trustees will weigh whether to approve a supplemental contract for further tests with ProctorU at its March 3 meeting.

Tycko & Zavareei LLP represents the proposed class of Bar applicants.

The case is Perjanik v. ProctorU, Inc., N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cv-02095, 2/27/25.