President Obama and Executive Privilege

I like to learn the law through real life examples of its application.  Remember when an Executive Order was bar tested?  Hint: July 2008 - Q2.

Constitutional Law - Doctrine of the Separation of Powers

Real Life Example of Tippee Liability - Primer for the Bar Exam

See: Goldman Sachs, Rajat Gupta, and Wiretaps

California Bar Posts the Feb. 2012 Essay Answers!

First, the good news!  The model answers to the Feb. 2012 essays and the PT's are posted on the State Bar web site.

However, the State Bar is currently changing its essay and PT exam links.  In the past, about ten years of past exams and model answers were available without cost to bar exam candidates.  Currently, exams going back to 2007 only are listed and there is a disclaimer on the Future Lawyer web site that states that they are changing their links.

If you need a set of essays and model answers for a specific year, the JD Web Site is a great on-line bank of California bar exam essays going back to the 1980's. 

The Game Plan - Part II

There have been many visitors to my post, "The Game Plan," thus I thought that I'd make an offer.

If you email me at the address listed on my profile, I will send my Essay Frequency Chart to you.  While this chart does not list sub-subjects for each subject, it can be used as a guide to select relevant Contracts, or Civil Procedure essays, and to help you pick out exams for your studies.

See my prior post, "The Game Plan."

http://changingvenue.blogspot.com/2011/11/game-plan.html

A new twist on posthumously born children?

Social Security Administration v. Caputo makes for an interesting read.  Nice segway into Community Property?

A new twist on posthumously born children?

I Passed! I Passed! I Passed!

I told my one student for the Feb. 2012 California Bar Exam, that the best news that I could hear was her screaming in my ear, "I passed!"  I was elated to learn on Saturday, May 19, that my student - a 5th time repeater - passed the California bar exam and just as proud to see her sworn in on June 1st to the state bar and to federal court.

It is possible to pass the California Bar Exam whether you are tackling the exam  for the first time, or have gone up multiple times to the plate.  Eventually, you will hit a "home run."  For me, the key to passing was to study the exam itself and become a master of it.  I learned the rules by studying the exam - both essay and MBE - and by concentrated practice.  Lack of practice seems to be the undoing of many a bar exam taker; there's too much concentration on memorizing the rules.  However, by practicing the essays and MBE's and by journalling (or developing flash cards of) the rules, the rules become ingrained and will be top-of-mind at exam time.  Remember the old adage, "Practice makes perfect?" The adage holds true.

So, to the July 2012 bar exam takers, practice, practice, practice!