The State Bar of California reported Friday that 30.8 percent of exam takers passed the February 2026 General Bar Examination (GBX). In addition, the State Bar also announced that 57.0 percent of those who completed the one-day Attorneys’ Examination passed.
The State Bar published its 2025 Digital Annual Report today, outlining a year defined by operational resilience, major system challenges and improvements, and investments in public protection and access to justice.
The State Bar of California seized the illegal business of Irene Carlota Raygoza of Livermore after a couple filed a complaint that her mishandling of their immigration case left one of their sons at risk of having to leave the United States for up to 22 years, the Office of Chief Trial Counsel announced today.
The Committee of Bar Examiners approved a bar exam options risk-benefit analysis and recommended that the California Supreme Court adopt the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ NextGen Uniform Bar Exam for administration beginning in July 2028.
The California Supreme Court disbarred attorney John Charles Eastman today. This after the State Bar Court Review Department in July 2025 affirmed the findings of the State Bar Court Hearing Department’s March 2024 recommendation, which found Eastman culpable of 10 out of 11 charges for egregious and deceitful conduct and recommended his disbarment.
The State Bar filed an amicus brief Friday, April 3, in support of four law firms targeted by the Trump Administration’s executive orders for the firms’ representation of clients unpopular with the administration. And on Monday, April 6, the State Bar’s Executive Director Laura Enderton-Speed and Chief Trial Counsel George Cardona submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on a proposed DOJ rule change that would impact California’s ability to effectively protect the public in conducting discipline investigations of DOJ attorneys.
The State Bar of California’s Legal Services Trust Fund Commission released its 2020–2024 impact report―Strengthening Legal Aid: Five Years of Strategic Investment―which details how the State Bar invested approximately $628 million through grant funds to strengthen California’s civil legal aid network and deliver over $1 billion in economic impact.
