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The New York State Bar Exam By The Issue, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus, Myra Berman, John Cooney
The New York State Bar Exam By The Issue, Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus, Myra Berman, John Cooney
Myra Berman
This book tells you how to use it to pass the New York bar exam. It presents every issue tested on the exam essays for the past 10 years in a concise chart, identifies the frequency with which these issues have been tested, and provides a rule of law for every identified issue. The paragraphs of law track the released NY essays and show how to tailor a paragraph of law to respond to the issue in the question. This book is unique in its detailed attention to the New York essays, providing a comprehensive resource for that portion of …
Trending@Rwu Law: John Ralston's Post: Bar Prep At Rwu: The Future Is Here!, John Ralston
Trending@Rwu Law: John Ralston's Post: Bar Prep At Rwu: The Future Is Here!, John Ralston
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Improving The Performance Of The Performance Test: The Key To Meaningful Bar Exam Reform, Ben Bratman
Improving The Performance Of The Performance Test: The Key To Meaningful Bar Exam Reform, Ben Bratman
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If there are going to be bar exams in the United States — and there are, for the foreseeable future — then the lingering question is how to improve them to better serve the goal of evaluating minimum competence. The bar exam is roundly and rightly criticized by academics and practitioners as disconnected from the actual functions that lawyers perform. The focus of the exam, critics say, is too much on knowledge and memorization of law. That focus is exacerbated by the recent addition of a seventh substantive subject, Civil Procedure, to the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE).
The path to …