Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam


Book Description

The Second Edition of Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam contains everything needed to pass the essay portion of the California bar exam. The book combines a comprehensive, yet efficiently concise review of volumes of substantive law with the authors’ proven-effective strategic plan for writing passing bar essays. Rule outlines are supplemented with issues checklists to aid issue spotting and memorization attack sheets, to make memorization manageable, while practice questions productively cover favorite testing areas so bar study is targeted and effective. New to the Second Edition Update: Recent and updated rule developments in all subjects Expanded coverage of topics emphasized on recent bar exams Updated issues tested matrices, rule memorization attack sheets, and topic specific approaches to reflect current testing trends Updated practice essay questions and answer grids in all subjects including crossover questions Professors and students will benefit from: Concise easy to memorize rule statements Fact triggers and exam tips that aid the transition to bar exam writing style Easy to follow essay approaches for key topics Practice essay questions with corresponding answer grids identifying issues and analysis required for a passing score Realistic sample answers that could be written under timed conditions Coverage of all heavily tested topics in each subject and crossover questions Issues tested matrices identifying the subtopics tested in every essay given in 30+ years




California Performance Test Workbook


Book Description

The Second Edition of California Performance Test Workbook contains everything needed to pass the performance test portion of the California Bar Exam, which is essential since the performance test score counts double. The book provides an innovative step-by-step strategic general approach for organizing and writing passing performance test answers within 90 minute timed conditions. The authors also provide specific page-by-page deconstructions with guidance and commentary on real released California Performance Test practice questions, along with corresponding answer grids, annotated sample passing answers, and released passing answers. New to the Second Edition: Updated 90-minute style performance exams New innovative performance test approaches with step-by-step instructions All performance test examples with page by page annotations An extra practice appendix provides additional practice for the more challenging components of the performance test Professors and students will benefit from: Options for how to organize a performance test based on different learning styles A step by step approach with target time goals for each component of the test Sample performance tests with step-by-step deconstructions, answer grids, annotated sample passing answers and released passing answers Examples of a variety of different task memos and sample libraries so students get extra practice on essential skills including sample task memos with corresponding organizational analysis, and sample libraries with corresponding book briefs and rule deconstructions




Model Rules of Professional Conduct


Book Description

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.




Winnin' Time!


Book Description

Book of outlines and boilerplates to help students pass the California Bar Examination




California First Year Exam Multiple Choice Questions Book


Book Description

Multiple choice questions and answers for the subjects tested on the California First Year Exam. Topics include Torts, Contracts and Criminal Law. This is the same volume used in the Celebration Bar Review course for the CA Baby Bar Examination.2015 Edition.




Professional Responsibility in Focus


Book Description

The Second Edition of Professional Responsibility in Focus offers a comprehensive, updated exposition of the law governing lawyers and judges. Real-world scenarios throughout the text provide students numerous opportunities for students to apply what they have learned and solidify their understanding of important concepts. New to the Second Edition: More than a dozen new cases and other recent developments—such as the amended advertising and solicitation rules—in an expanded, practice-oriented text with new and revised footnotes. Professors and students will benefit from: Clear and concise coverage of the attorney-client relationship, competence, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and more. Key Concepts at the start of each chapter and Chapter Summaries at the end of each chapter facilitate study and review Case Previews and Post Case Follow-Ups that frame each case writing clarifies the rules and aid in student understanding An introduction to the legal profession Real Life Applications and Applying the Rules exercises challenge students to apply what they have learned to realistic hypothetical scenarios Updates to Chapter One, on the moral responsibility of lawyers, that provides context for understanding and situating the Model Rules of Professional Responsibility covered in the chapters that follow. 12-chapter organization is easily adapted to two or three-credit courses




The Trigger List


Book Description

The only comprehensive attack plan to identify triggers: a word or phrase that fairly and legitimately implicates issues on the California Bar Examination.




A Guru’s Journey


Book Description

An important modern exponent of Asian dance, Pandit Chitresh Das brought kathak to the United States in 1970. The North Indian classical dance has since become an important art form within the greater Indian diaspora. Yet its adoption outside of India raises questions about what happens to artistic practices when we separate them from their broader cultural contexts. A Guru's Journey provides an ethnographic study of the dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Das. Sarah Morelli, a kathak dancer and one of Das's former students, investigates issues in teaching, learning, and performance that developed around Das during his time in the United States. In modifying kathak's form and teaching for Western students, Das negotiates questions of Indianness and non-Indianness, gender, identity, and race. Morelli lays out these issues for readers with the goal of deepening their knowledge of kathak aesthetics, technique, and theory. She also shares the intricacies of footwork, facial expression in storytelling, and other aspects of kathak while tying them to the cultural issues that inform the dance.




The Indigo Book


Book Description

This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.




The Finz Multistate Method


Book Description

The finz Multistate Method is the indispensable tool for both law school exams And The Multistate Bar Exam. The book includes: 1,167 multiple choice questions and answers: Each question contains a sophisticated and intricate fact pattern that tests your ability to pull out the essential facts and tie them To The rules and theories you've learned in class. Each answer not only explains the reasoning behind the correct choice, but also why the other choices are incorrect Covers first-year subjects: The book contains over 140 questions each on Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts, As well as questions on the upper-year subject of Evidence Supplemental questions for your bar review: Every question is written in the Multistate Bar Exam style and format for school exams on MBE preparation. If you're taking a bar review course, you still need the finz Multistate Method; our questions are written in the MBE style and format, but are not actual released exam questions, So we guarantee you've never seen these questions before in your MBE review materials Special section on how to handle MBE-style questions: The book includes a 21-page guide to handling MBE-style multiple-choice questions- how to break the question down To The essential facts, how to recognize the legal issues, how to avoid the examiners' traps and pitfalls, and how to pick the right answer and avoid being misled by the wrong answers. Complete MBE-style practice exam: The book comes with the finz Multistate Method, has written and lectured for BAR/BRI and PMBR and is the author of Professor Series on Products Liability and Professor Series on Torts, both published by Aspen Publishers.