Thursday, March 5, 2026

Feb '26 Bar Exam Results

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Bar Exam results from the February exam can start rolling in as early as late March. A safer bet is probably to assume the first states will...

NextGen UBE: Foundational Skills ( Issue Spotting and Analysis, Investigation and Evaluation)

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There are four categories of "foundational skills" that the NextGen UBE aims to test: Group A: Issue Spotting and Analysis, Invest...
Monday, March 2, 2026

The Structure of the NextGen UBE

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There's plenty yet to learn about the NextGen UBE. But with a few jurisdictions administering the exam as early as this coming July, it...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Good Luck!

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All best to those who are preparing for the February bar exam! Posting will resume soon after the exam to assist with the LSAT and the Bar E...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Conclusions on Essays

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A student asked a question that I thought was important enough to address here.  Definite conclusions are not necessary on a bar exam. There...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Bar Exam Essay Writing Tips

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The framework here does take time and effort to get good at. But, (and I don’t mean to say that this is the only way to write a bar exam ess...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Self Defense

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A helpful way to learn self defense is to separate the defense into situations in which non-deadly force is allowable from situations in whi...
Friday, January 23, 2026

A Common UBE Trap:

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An agent will inform a third party that the agent is acting for the principal, even though the agent has no actual authority to act for the ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

A Note on Homicide

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Words like “first degree murder,” “second degree murder, “premeditation,” and etc., shouldn’t even enter your thoughts when answering a homi...
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...