Thursday, August 14, 2025

July '25 Bar Exam Results

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Bar Exam results from this past July will begin to roll in at the end of this month. Almost all states release some data as to how the candi...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Post-Exam Studying

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A common question I get: “Should I start studying for the next bar exam before I’ve received my scores? I don’t think I passed!"  Not a...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Satisfying Conditions (LSAT)

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Assume that x happening is necessary. You can never conclude anything simply by knowing that x happened. However, you can draw a valid concl...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Good Luck!

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All best to those who will be taking the bar exam in a few days! Posting to resume soon along with pass percentages from the July '25 ex...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Strategy

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Those who have throughout their schooling aimed for “A’s” on exams (if not every law student ever than close to every law student ever), can...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Compensatory Damages

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Damages in Contract Law can be confusing. It's worth memorizing the following: The goal of compensatory damages is to put the non-breach...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

A Quick Distinction

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~Not Hearsay: the statement is not offered for the truth of the matter asserted. It falls outside the rule against hearsay, and it’s admissi...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Default (Article 9: UCC)

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Towards the end of the life cycle of a secured transaction comes default. Default provides the right of a secured party to proceed against c...
Friday, July 11, 2025

MBE Tip

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There's a saying: "if you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, it is enough to prove one single crow to be white." ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Buyers (Article 9 UCC)

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The advice I give to students is that if strapped for time, there are three concepts to know well for Secured Transactions on the bar exam: ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Fault (Torts)

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You're working on a Torts question for the MBE. You see a young child get hit by a car, and you're ready to pick the answer claiming...
Friday, June 27, 2025

Perfection (Article 9 UCC)

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Next up in the lifeline of a secured transaction is perfection. Attachment gives the secured party rights against the debtor. Perfection wil...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Attachment (Article 9 UCC)

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A few things about the subject of Secured Transactions on the bar exam: it's a subject that many students find challenging, and it's...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Larceny

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Someone walks into a store and decides to steal a coat. The person picks the coat up off the rack and realizes it's not a coat worth ste...
Monday, June 23, 2025

An Approach to Analyzing Hearsay

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An approach you can apply to every hearsay question on the MBE: 1: Is the witness testifying to a statement that was made out of court. No?...