California Provisional Licenses Proposed as February Exam Remedy

A California State Bar committee voted Monday to recommend that February applicants who failed or withdrew from the exam be eligible to receive provisional licenses to practice law under an attorney’s supervision for two years.

The option would provide some relief to applicants who say score adjustments aren’t enough to compensate for the devastation of the February exam that glitched and crashed, especially as reports surfaced in recent weeks that a Bar vendor used ChatGPT to write some of the questions for the brand-new exam.