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State Bar & Bar Associations

Aug. 29, 2019

Retired appellate justice to investigate bar exam leak

The state Supreme Court hired retired 3rd District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland on Wednesday to spearhead an independent investigation into last month's leak of bar exam essay topics days before the test.

The state Supreme Court hired retired 3rd District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice Arthur G. Scotland on Wednesday to spearhead an independent investigation into last month's leak of bar exam essay topics days before the test.

Scotland will lead a team from his Sacramento-based law firm, Nielsen Merksamer, in an inquiry about how general essay subjects and portions of the performance test were disclosed in an email first sent t...

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