Bar Review
Bar Breaker Jeff Adachi
The series is designed to provide the examinee with the strategies and techniques necessary to succeed on the essay section of the California Bar Exam by showing how to solve questions using a consistent system of problem solving. The first part focuses on developing a system of problem solving; the second part demonstrates the application of Six Steps of Exam Writing to over 100 past bar exam questions spanning each of the tested subject areas.
Bar Cards Adachi
Written by a Bar/Bri professor and author, contains the essential black letter law needed to know the subject, includes mnemonics and bonus guide to top memorization techniques, fully illustrated and color coded to make memorization easy. 460 cards total, approximately 50 cards per subject.
The Bar Code Cheat Sheets for California, by Whitney Roberts
The Bar Code "cheat sheets" are essay templates that lay out the organizational structure an examinee should follow when answering a variety of selected essay topics. They are designed for the larger, more complex issues tested on the California Bar Examination, and were created to help students synthesize the massive amounts of substantive law into grader-friendly short answers. The Cheat Sheets offer a ready-set roadmap for each issue, designed to minimize "thinking" and "organizing" time at the outset of each essay.
Included with each Cheat Sheet are detailed footnotes that offer tips and tricks for how to analyze each of the legal principles contained therein and over 30 sample answers.
Created by a former bar grader and Hastings adjunct professor. Highly and enthusiastically recommended by UC Hastings grads.
Bar Exam Survival Kit Adachi
A step by step guide on how to prepare for the bar examination. The book provides tools necessary to master legal problem solving within the time limitations imposed by the bar exam and provides a clear study plan to follow when preparing for the exam.
Bar Secrets Series, Saccuzo, Johnson & Koen
In three popular series written for the bar examinee, 1L student or 2L student. Each book contains the structure of the specific area of thelaw, with illustrative essays. The Essay books contain model essays written by the authors. There are two bundles, one for the MBE and the other for the California Bar Exam.
Barman, Wellen
Compelling memoir of a New York state attorney from law student big firm life as a lawyer who did not graduate from Harvard. Interesting read.
Flemings Bar Review Series
Multistate and Essay exam workbooks containing detailed instructions for mastering the essay and multistate exams at the student's own pace. The series tells what to expect, what techniques and skills are required, outlines questions and illustrates issues with visual aids. All the essay exam workbooks contain hypothetical questions with IRAC Model Outlines and Answers.
If I Don't Pass The Bar I'll Die . . ., La Puma
If I Don't Pass the Bar I'll Die (73 Ways to Keep Stress and Worry From Affecting Your Performance on the Bar Exam) Rosemary La Puma, Esq. is the founder and owner of Rosemary's Review - A Comprehensive Bar Tutorial. The book is a compilation of the techniques she used to help her and her students master their stress and worry. Ms. LaPuma is an adjunct professor at USF and Golden Gate Law Schools where she teaches legal writing courses.
MBE Survival Kit Jeff Adachi
Multistate Bar Exam preparation involving six tested subject areas currently tested on the MBE, developing familiarity with the exam format, common questions asked in the exam, subject areas and law to study, and 10 critical "Rules of the MBE" necessary to pass the exam.
The Performance Test, P.A.S.S.
This popular book prepares the examinee for the Performance Test portion of the California Bar Exam. The book imparts general information about the California Bar Exam, performance test approaches, fact analysis, legal analysis, professional responsibility, problem solving, document types- the frequently tested tasks, and success strategies. The Appendixes contain selected CBE performance test questions and answers, PASS sample answers for the CBE questions, and a summary of past California Performance Tests.
Patent Bar Exam, Fuchs, Ed.
The book presents a test preparation and review course for those taking the Patent Bar Exam for Registration to Practice before the U.S. Patent Office. It contains two actual patent exams with detailed explanations plus a quick and detailed review of the MPEP (Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. It also contains:
- Tips and strategies for passing the exam
- Saves the expense of high-priced patent bar courses
- Ready reference for exam candidates, law offices, libraries, attorneys and inventors
Rigos Multistate Bar Exam Review
Vol. 1: Contracts and UCC Article 2, Torts and Real Property and Future Interests
Vol 2: Evidence, Constitutional Law, and Criminal Law and Procedure
Each volume contains concise explanations of all MBE subjects, acronyms and tips, learning questions, more than 1700 multiple choice questions, a mock 6 hour/200 question practice exam, and a "Make Your Own Exam" feature w/free cd to customize your studying as you go along.
Rigos Multistate Essay Exam Review 2008-2009 Ed.
This volume contains an introductory chapter on exam strategies that tells you exactly what to expect at the exam, it's concise, provides only the information needed to answer the MEE essay questions, give detailed writing style directions, contains acronyms to help in memorizing legal elements and perfect your writing approach. The topics are presented in easy to read outline format.
Rigos Multistate Performance Test Review
Contains detailed instructions on the best approach to use in answering MPT questions; has an entire chapter devoted to each popular MPT format question; contains historical analysis iullustrating the frequency of MPT tasks that appear on the exam; identifies common pitfalls and traps to identify red herrings; contains seven simulated exam questions categorized by topic with full sample answers, give concise comprehensive explanations.
Rigos Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam
This volume is presented in easy to read outline format; is concise, contains only the information needed to pas the MPRE; provides answer rationals to help in identifiying red herrings; has 350 sample questions and a mock 2 hour 60 question practice exam; provides acronyms for memorizing issues and rules.
Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays 3d Ed., Gallagher
The author provides in-depth strategies and essay writing practices that bar reviews do not offer, as well as 80 full-lengthe sample essays and expert essay writing systems. The author focuses on
- A quick-key outlining system for hitting the issues, focusing on the law and scoring high with less writing;
- Model Paragraph system for "writing like a lawyer" - even though you don't know the conclusion when you start writing;
- Eighty actual bar exam practice questions on the most frequently tested areas of law including crucial state law subjects, with sample answers;
- A review of how state bar examiners have graded actual essays - and real examples of the best and worst ways to respond to essay questions.
Strategies & Tactics for the finz Multitstate Method, Steven R. Finz
Develops a Multistate Game Plan for passing the MBE. The book contains a collection of question sin MBE format accompanied by answers and explanations. Each explanation is a mini dissertation on the topic involved. Each answer is written by a law professor and checked and re-checked by another law professor who specializes in the specific field of law tested. Strategies & Tactics for the MPRE, Emmanuel
An easy-to-learn system for passing the MPRE, providing in one slim volume:
- Expert advice on spotting and avoiding tricky questions and common mistakes
- 50 questions from past MPRE exams with explanations and analyses of the correct and incorrect answers - geared to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Responsibility
- Additional questions and answers from past MPREs - released by the National Conference of Bar Examiners
TH
E TRIGGER LIST
Finally! A systematic issue spotting plan! The Trigger List solves issue spotting problems for 1Ls, upper level students and bar applicants alike by developing the ability to spot trigger terms in every exam fact situation! Steven Harris invented the Essay Review Week to systematically spot issues and generate points in both law school and bar exams.
Law students can use this plan, the Cal Bar web site and prior exams from their professors aw well as post-mortem/sample answers to ace their exams!
Bar applicants can use this plan alongside their bar prep course essay book and the Cal Bar website to nail down those elusive issues. Over 90 essays are covered with issues and triggers for ease of reference.
WINNIN' TIME
This volume teaches how to write an effective essay for the Bar Exam and for law school exams. Bar/Bri Professor Steven Harris's method is a three act play on how to write a successful exam answer!
- Black Letter Law outlines and outlining techniques for all bar exam subjects and all first year courses!
- Provides students with rules in sentence form for easy memorization and translation to their bluebooks!
- Provides upper level students with indispensable tools such as revolutionary boilerplates for Evidence and PR as well as CA-enhancements for Business Associations, Civil Procedure and Remedies!
Nailing The Bar, Tyler
Popular series by Tim Tyler, Ph.D, Esq. Each book in the series covers a different field of law, focusing on the common law and broadly adapted modern views applicable to every exam in every state. The author uses a "cook book" approach to focus on the mechanics and substance needed to write passing essays. This series is very popular with law students to understand how to write an essay exam during their law school careers.