California Bar Leaders Puzzle Over Remedy for February Exam Mess

The California State Bar leaders who oversaw the February Bar Exam that glitched and crashed widely must now decide how to clean up the mess.

Should they lower the passing score or extend broader retakes? Grant provisional licenses? Reconsider giving would-be attorneys an option to submit legal work samples instead?

Because troubles on test day ranged from distracting glitches to full-fledged catastrophe, no single remedy has emerged as fair for all applicants.

Already, the Bar has said it will re-test around 85 applicants who left a significant number of answers blank, or who couldn’t launch the test at all. However, ...