#AI secretly helped write #Californiabar #exam, sparking uproar. #contractor used AI to create 23 out of 171 scored multiple-choice questions. The admission comes after weeks of complaints about technical problems, irregularities during exam administration. State Bar disclosed that its #psychometrician, ACS Ventures, created 23 of 171 scored multiple-choice questions w AI assistance. Another 48 questions came from 1st yr law student exam, Kaplan Exam Services developed remaining 100 questions.

California's State Bar sparks outrage by using AI to craft some Feb 2025 bar exam questions, adding fuel to existing complaints about tech issues and test quality. Experts are stunned.

#AI #LegalTech #CaliforniaBar

Remember, the bar exam is a test of professional competency.

Unless you are administering it. Then you can be as incompetent as you want.

#BarExam #CaliforniaBar

am I the only one who missed that the #CaliforniaBar updated its #MCLE requirements?!

starting with the group reporting in February 2025, you'll now be required to include:

- 1 hr on Technology in the Practice of Law;
- 1 hr on Civility in the Legal Profession (woof is this needed); and
- 2 hrs of Competence, broken up into at least 1 hr of Prevention and Detection (of substance abuse and other disabiling conditions) and 1 optional hr of Wellness Competence.

https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/rules/Rules_Title2_Div4-MCLE.pdf

AC/DC Is Opening Their Own Bar In California

For a limited time, anyway.

Metal Injection

Jennifer Rubin: Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding

"At a critical hearing last week in the #California bar proceedings, designated legal expert Matthew A. Seligman submitted a 91-page report, which I have obtained from the state bar, that strips away any 'colorable,' or legally plausible, defense that Eastman was acting in good faith in rendering advice to the now four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump."

#johneastman #trump #j6 #californiabar #giftarticle
https://wapo.st/3sqXBoZ

Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding

No reasonable lawyer would have given this advice.

The Washington Post
Trump Attorney Eastman Faces Potential Disbarment in California - Political IQ

Prosecutors in California argued Tuesday that attorney John Eastman should be disbarred over his scheme to overturn the 2020 election.

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