The Bar Secrets Bundle

• The Multistate Subjects
• The California-Specific Subjects
• An Essay Approach for California Subjects
• An Essay Approach for Multistate Subjects

An Essay Approach for the California-Specific Subjects

ISBN 1-933089-12-1
Published: 2005
Price: $94.99

The purpose of Bar Secrets®: an Essay Approach for the California-Specific Subjects is to show you how the law is applied in a broad variety of contexts. The California Bar essay exams test a large by definitely limited number of legal principles.

Generally, the fact patterns on the California Bar exam are simpler than those devised by diabolical law professors, and the range of issues tested is usually more narrow than found in first or second year finals in subjects such as contracts, property, torts, crimes, evidence, and constitutional law. On the other hand, questions that give less than an hour for essays are generally easier than those tested on the one hour California Bar essays, because they contain fewer issues. Careful study of the fact patterns and model answers provided in this work will richly reward any law student or Bar candidate.

Models that illustrate how to apply the major principles of law most commonly tested on the California Bar exam are provided and analyzed for each of the non-MBE subjects. Although the California Bar recurrently texts the same big issues again and again (for example, subject matter jurisdiction, quail-community property, and lapse/anti-lapse to name a few), the manner in which these topics are tested has changed in recent years. Studying older fact patterns is not enough for most people.

Each of our models follow our suggested writing format. In consequence, the approach is illustrated repeatedly, making it easy to learn and adapt to your own personal style.