Leah Wilson, the California bar’s executive director, has been noticeably missing from the agency’s response to news that the essay topics for this week’s bar exam were inadvertently disclosed to 16 law school deans. On Wednesday the bar confirmed why: Wilson’s son is taking the exam that ends today.

“The executive director has been walled off from all decisions regarding the July 2019 bar exam and was not part of the decision-making process regarding release of the subject matter topics,” the bar said in a statement provided by spokeswoman Teresa Ruano.

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