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LOS ANGELES — The vendor accused by the State Bar of California of fraud, negligence and breach of contract in the rollout of California’s February 2025 bar exam will pay the State Bar $5.25 million as a result of a recently negotiated settlement.
ProctorU Inc., which does business as Meazure Learning, agreed to the payout in a July 13 settlement. Both remote and in-person test takers reported widespread problems with the administration of the exam, according to the State Bar, which filed a lawsuit against Meazure Learning in the wake of law students’ complaints about technical glitches and other problems.
As part of the agreement, the State Bar will dismiss its lawsuit with prejudice within two business days of receiving the settlement funds. Under the settlement terms, Meazure Learning is also waiving its outstanding invoice for work performed on the exam, amounting to $1.36 million.
The State Bar hired a private law firm, Hueston Hennigan LLP, which has offices in Southern California, to assist in the litigation. Both parties in the lawsuit have agreed to pay their own attorney fees, court costs and expenses.
“This settlement is a reasonable, appropriate and acceptable resolution for the State Bar that helps offset the costs the State Bar expended in response to the aftermath of the February 2025 bar exam, including refunds, waivers and stipends provided to impacted applicants,” the State Bar’s general counsel, Ellin Davtyan, said in a prepared statement.
A Meazure Learning spokesperson said the settlement helps the company avoid lengthy litigation over the dispute.
“While Meazure Learning vigorously defended against the claims and continues to deny any liability or wrongdoing, Meazure Learning agreed to a settlement to avoid the time, expense and distraction of protracted litigation,” the spokesperson told the Southern California Record in an email. “Meazure Learning proudly stands behind our track record of reliably administering over 4 million exams annually and supporting more than 1,000 organizations across industries over the course of our more than 20 years in the testing industry.”
The settlement also requires Meazure Learning to send encrypted data covering scheduling and registration by test takers, exam responses, technical support information, videos of test takers and proctor comments to the State Bar within 30 days of the accord’s effective date.
And the company must also make reasonable efforts to delete data provided by the State Bar for the bar exam administration from Meazure Learning’s platforms. The settlement requires all confidential sealed material that was used in the litigation to be returned to the State Bar’s attorneys and to remain out of the public domain.
The settlement does not resolve the disputes between individual test takers and Meazure Learning, however.
The company and test takers who filed a federal class action lawsuit last year scheduled a mediation session this month in the Central District of California over what plaintiffs said were numerous problems, including delays, excessive lagging and inability to respond to portions of the test, because the company failed to provide enough server capacity for the exam.
“As a result of (the) defendant’s failure to competently administer the February 2025 California Bar Exam, examinees were forced to waste time navigating and troubleshooting technical issues,” the lawsuit states. “They were unable to fully focus on the exam. Their scores on this career-altering exam will inevitably be affected.”
