California Bar Scrambles With 2025 Kaplan Exam Plan Uncertain

June 21, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

The California State Bar is looking for other cost-saving options for the February 2025 bar exam, as a plan to contract with Kaplan NA LLC is delayed — and potentially destroyed — by copyright concerns.

The bar’s admissions fund is scrambling to cut costs as it faces potential insolvency by 2026. Its backup options if it cannot contract with Kaplan include proceeding as usual for February 2025 or for the state bar to write its own questions that could be administered remotely, potentially leaning on questions developed by other jurisdictions, according to a presentation at a Friday bar meeting.

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