Friday, January 16, 2026

Contract Law Tip

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x owes money to y. y forgets to collect, such that the statute of limitations has run. x, for moral reasons or otherwise, puts in writing...
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Past Recollection Recorded vs Refreshing Recollection

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There are some concepts on the bar exam that are so similar that students tend to confuse one for the other. The concepts of refreshing reco...
Monday, January 5, 2026

Evidence Tip

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When answering Evidence questions: What evidence was offered? Why was the evidence offered? By the above, what I mean is that although some...
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Essays on the UBE

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People often spend time trying to figure out what the writers of the UBE are looking for on the essays. This is right from the horse's m...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Life Estates

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There are a lot of nuances that are tested about life estates. But first, it's important to understand what a life estate is.  A life es...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Future Interests

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The topic of future interests is not a topic that most students enjoy. They didn't like it in law school, and having to study it for the...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Essay Writing Tip

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On bar exam essays, don’t give yourself too much of a burden in figuring out how these made up legal issues should ultimately be resolved. I...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Public Policy Exclusions in Evidence Law

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Certain types of evidence that would otherwise be admissible are excluded for reasons of public policy. What makes this area tricky is that ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Roadmap for Preparing for the Florida Exam

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I send this roadmap to my Florida students, and I thought it might help the readers on here as well! T here are three components to this exa...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

MBE Strategy

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As people start to prep for the February bar exam, I'll give a piece of advice that I think, if internalized and practiced, is among the...
Friday, October 24, 2025

July '25 Bar Exam Results

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Bar Exam results from this past July have started to roll in. Almost all states release some data as to how the candidates in their state pe...

Avenues of Discovery

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The avenues of discovery that are allowable in a civil case aren't all that complex, but the topic is very nuanced and fact intensive. E...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Impleader vs. Intervention vs. Interpleader

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Lots of words in Civil Procedure that begin with the letter I. Let's address each of them separately since, other than that common start...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

A Framework for Analyzing Personal Jurisdiction

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What makes the concept of personal jurisdiction complex is that the analysis contains many different components. Having a framework for anal...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The UBE

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This February will mark the final UBE for a small number of states. Specifically, the following: ~Connecticut ~Idaho ~Maryland ~Missouri ~Or...
Thursday, August 28, 2025

July '25 MBE Mean Score

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The July MBE mean score has been released. And it's looking good. At 142.4, it's the highest July MBE average since 2013, not includ...