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BarWrite® Announces Ten-Day School for July 2008 New York Bar Exam

BarWrite® President Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D., Ph.D., announces that BarWrite will offer its popular 10-day Group Coaching School, starting Sunday, June 1, 2008. "Students can see whether they are making real progress in their ability to score high on the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE)," Dr. Gallagher explains,

Harvard Law Review Launches Online Version of The Bluebook

Bluebook users rejoice! Harvard Law Review has now launched an online version of The Bluebook! That frustrating, maddening, vital authority on legal citation form had, back in my own time at

To Prepare for the Bar Exam, Get Exercise Every Day

To keep your mental machinery running smoothly for the
bar exam, exercise for one hour every day. That's right.
One hour. Every day. Strenuous exercise, not just

Celebrate National Grammar Day

March 4 is National Grammar Day. Are you ready? Are you careful to keep who and whom straight, as you should? Maybe a visit to the website of SPOGG, the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, here, is the ticket.

Plagiarism Keeps Student Out of Bar

Plagiarism is the kind of misconduct that can keep a law student from ever getting admitted to the bar. Hat tip for

New BarWrite® Boot Camp for All States' Bar Exam Essays

BarWrite® and BarWrite Press president Dr. Mary Campbell Gallagher will teach bar candidates how to overcome common essay hurdles and boost their bar exam essay scores in an intensive live One-Day All-States

Justice Clarence Thomas Analyzes the Bar Examination

Jake Lybberty reports Justice Clarence Thomas's saying in My Grandfather's Son that "like every other black law student, I was uncomfortably aware that blacks failed to pass the bar exams at a much higher rate than whites . . . ." At first Justice Thomas assumed that racial discrimination must be to

West Virginia University College of Law

Chuck Newton has posted a nice pitch for West Virginia University College of Law, a reasonably-priced public law school in scenic Morgantown, West Virginia. I was struck by his saying, as something important about the law school, that it prepares graduates well for a difficult bar exam.

People who believe that we can dispense with the analytic bar examination

Massive New Study of Affirmative Action Under Way

Discriminations.us has reported that Professor Richard Sander of UCLA and collaborators are undertaking a

New York Bar Examiners Get New Software, Liability Waiver

According to a story from the New York Law Journal on today's Law.com, the New York Board of Law Examiners has chosen a new software provider for bar candidates who use a laptop to take the February 2008 bar exam. The BOLE will also require bar candidates to sign a waiver of liability. Neither move is surprising in

New York Bar Examiners Will Entertain Appeals Over Laptop Problems

This just in. According to Eric Turkewitz's blog, New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog, the New York bar

Chocolate Beats Bar Exam

Susan Tuveson, then a family and divorce attorney, had a revelation while she was looking through her chocolate cookbooks right before the Maine bar exam. She decided not to take the

Two Tips for Getting Best Results from Bar Exam Study Time

Here are two tips to help you get the maximum pay-off from every minute you spend preparing for the bar exam.

1. The bar exam graders are looking for evidence that you know the black letter law and can apply it in a

Five Tips for Success on the New York Bar Exam for Foreign-Trained Attorneys

For foreign-trained attorneys, the keys to success on the New York bar exam are setting aside the time to prepare for the exam, understanding the nature of the exam, and ruthlessly prioritizing and strategizing.

The New York bar exam is challenging. In July 2007, the pass rate for first-time takers who had graduated from ABA-approved law schools in New York State was 88.2 per cent, an all-time high. The pass rate for first-time takers who qualified to take the New York bar based on foreign legal credentials was 46 per cent. Studying for the exam while working is inadvisable. Not taking a full bar-review course like BarBri or Pieper virtually guarantees failure.

Here are five tips for success.

BarWrite 10-Day Bar Exam School Now Adds Adaptibar

BarWrite® supplements its unique MBE study system with AdaptiBar to give bar candidates instant feedback..

New York, NY, November 14, 2007 -- BarWrite® and BarWrite Press, the nation's most innovative bar-exam preparer, http://www.BarWrite.com, announced today that it will add the widely-praised Adaptibar online tool