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Comment on July 2009 California Bar Exam Results by Congrats to CA’s New Lawyers! « The Bright Coast

Congrats to CA’s New Lawyers! « The Bright Coast — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:20:14 +0000

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Comment on Federal/California Law Differences on the Exam by Andie M.

Andie M. — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:20:43 +0000

A little info: The Barbri MPRE is a practice exam given through the Barbri review course. The review and test were designed to help give law students the tools they need to excel on their exams. It is especially intended to prepare students for the Bar Exam.

Comment on About Us by Dave

Dave — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:49:31 +0000

I am a second year law school student and am trying to figure out which review course I will end up using. I am going to Seattle U and have heard great things about Rigos bar review courses, I guess they are located in Seattle. Any thoughts on how Rigos conpares to some of the other larger review courses?

Comment on Can a Non-ABA Grad Attorneys from California Sit for the Washington State Bar? by Bryan Erickson

Bryan Erickson — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:20:50 +0000

Could you tell me if there is a similar agreement between California and Oregon?

Comment on About Us by Tom MacMurray

Tom MacMurray — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:16:24 +0000

Three years of law school; $50,000, $60,000 and more in tuition; $15,000 for books and study aids and another $4,000 or more for a review course… and where can you find the information you need on “how to prepare?” Not the massive amount of knowledge that is in a good review program, but how to gather, process, store, retrieve and use that masive amount of information… Learn how to learn. there is a propaedeutic seminar available to teach students how to use the information in a good review program. Go to http://www.passthefreaknexam.com for information on the best ever propaedeutic seminar

Comment on About Us by Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:41:51 +0000

Jonathan,

Do you know of any resources geared towards repeaters, who have failed this thing multiple times? And not just in California; judging from the articles on the web you would think California is the only jurisdiction where repeaters exist.

Thanks!

Comment on About Us by atty. aphrodite

atty. aphrodite — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:04:54 +0000

I passed the September 2007 Philippine Bar Exams. I intend to take the California Bar Exams maybe in 2009 or 2010. Do you know what the requirements are for the foreign educated applicants like me?I believe citizenship is not a requirement.

Comment on Bar Pass Rate Only 22.91% by atty. aphrodite

atty. aphrodite — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:48:57 +0000

hello. i passed the 2007 Philippine Bar Exams on my first take. indeed, i experienced euphoria. however, i feel sad for most of my friends who never made it.
i have plans of taking the california bar exams someday. i do not know the requirements for taking it. i hope someone will tell me what they are.
they say that the calibar is extremely difficult but it’s worth trying while i am still young–if being 29 is still young. i know a Filipino lawyer who reviewed for the calibar exams only for 3 months and she passed the exams. Gosh! how i wish i could be like her.

Comment on About Us by admin

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:37:12 +0000

Leanne:

The shortened California exam for out-of-state attorneys usually has a lower pass rate than the general exam, mainly because California doesn’t permit most foreign attorneys to take the MBE. That means you only take the essay/PE tests on Tuesday and Thursday. The key point is that it is exact this portion of the exam that tests the California-specific topics (CA community property; CA evidence; CA professional responsibility, etc.).

When you say that you’ve purchased the Barbri books, do you mean the current books with the new California subjects that were first tested last year? Any older books and you’re not going to be prepared the way you’ll want to be prepared.

Barbri does offer videos of its classes for out of area students. You would certainly qualify as out-of-area.

Since you’re going to be ‘writing your brains out’ on the test, I offer three specific recommendations:

First, if you’re a portable computer user, by all means sign up for the laptop exam.

Second, you might find it useful to sign up with a California writing specialist such as Scott Pearce to have him review your practice essays and PEs (passthebar.com).

Third, REMEMBER, REMEMBER, REMEMBER that the fast-track way to fail the California Attorney’s exam is to write like an attorney. We’re paid by our clients to write answers, not explore issues. But on the California exam, writing a focused answer will gain you few points. It’s ALL in the written analysis, per contras, and using EVERY SINGLE FACT in your answer that gets you to and above 70 points per answer (which, as a reminder, is why you likely WISH you could take the MBE multistate test to round up your overall score!).

Best of luck to you!

Jonathan

Comment on About Us by Leanne

Leanne — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:06:39 +0000

I came across your blog as I was searching around the Net for CA Bar resources. I am attorney applicant from FL who will be taking the CA Bar in July. I have purchased the Barbri books and Adachi’s Bar Breaker book to study. I will be studying full-time for this exam. Do you recommend any other resources to study for this exam for someone who can not attend live classes? Thanks in advance.