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...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Preemptive Rights

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Sometimes a company might issue additional shares of stock, and a shareholder might reasonably be concerned that with this new issuance, the...
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...