Senate Judiciary Chair Tom Umberg said he will call for an audit of what went "spectactularly wrong" with this week's bar exam while law school deans urged the high court to pump the brakes on the state bar's plans to hold an exam retake session in mid-March.

The fallout from the State Bar of California’s messy rollout of its new bar exam continues to escalate, as test takers have now filed a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against Meazure Learning,

Test takers seeking to practice law in California experienced chaos this week as the State Bar of California fumbled the rollout of its new attorney licensing test, leaving many unable to complete their bar exams and some filing a proposed federal class action lawsuit.

The Supreme Court of California needs to intervene to help bar exam takers following the chaotic rollout of the state's new test this week, several California law school deans said on Thursday.

Technical glitches, proctoring chaos and system failures derailed California’s newly launched bar exam on Tuesday, forcing the State Bar to offer make-up tests for affected examinees on March 3 and 4.