The New Normal: Blended Learning in Law Schools As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many law schools had to come up with a different strategy for delivering in-person content for large class sizes. If you’re reading this, it’s likely because...
The Decline of the MBE Score and What You Can Do About It The MBE is declining nationally, and now many students have to combat this issue. In order to improve their MBE scores, many students just dive into practicing thousands of MBE questions and focus on quantity....
WHAT DO WE KNOW FROM THE STATES? We know that CT, MA, NY and D.C. have all decided to extend the July 2020 Bar Exam until “sometime in the fall”. Each jurisdiction is entitled to make its own decision about whether it will administer the July bar exam or...
Steps to Analyze a Statute First: Read all relevant sections of the statute, including all relevant definitions. Second: Read binding case law that interprets relevant sections of the statute. Third: Apply the plain meaning of a word if the relevant words are not...
How to Read a Legal Citation: A citation is a reference to legal authorities and precedents such as statutes, legal opinions, regulations, and law review articles. Citations are used in legal memoranda, arguments to courts, legal textbooks, judicial opinions, law...
Results from July 2018 Results are either out from the July 2018 exam or they will be out soon. You might have read that there is a 34-year low when it comes to the multiple-choice section (the MBE) of the bar exam. It’s like a Great Depression for the Bar Exam. This...
