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45 Brandeis L.J. 269 (2006-2007)
A Bar Review for Law Schools: Getting Students on Board to Pass Their Bar Exams

handle is hein.journals/branlaj45 and id is 277 raw text is: A BAR REVIEW FOR LAW SCHOOLS: GETTING STUDENTS ON BOARD TO PASS THEIR BAR EXAMS Denise Riebe* I. INTRODUCTION u1. BAR EXAMS: HISTORY, PURPOSE, CRITICISMS, AND ALTERNATIVES Ii. SHOULD LAW SCHOOLS INTERVENE? IV. WOULD LAW SCHOOL PREPARATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE? V. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GETIING STUDENTS ON BOARD TO PASS THEIR BAR EXAMS A. Introduction B. Program Recommendations C. For-Credit Law School Bar Preparation Courses D. The Go, No-Go Decision VI. THE FUTURE OF THE BAR EXAM AND LAW SCHOOL PREPARATION I. INTRODUCTION Law schools have significant bar passage problems.' After students spend thousands of dollars2 and invest years of time in becoming attorneys, law * Duke University School of Law, Senior Lecturing Fellow, 2001-06; University of North Carolina School of Law, Adjunct Instructor, 2001-06; Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., 1986; author, with Michael Hunter Schwartz, PASS THE BAR! (2006). The author thanks her colleagues who provided comments on earlier drafts of this Article: Professor Suzanne Darrow-Kleinhaus, Touro Law Center, Huntington, New York; Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, Kansas; and Professor Pavel Wonsowicz, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law. The author also thanks Dawn Brackmann, J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 1988, and Alyssa Rower, J.D., Duke University School of Law, 2004, for their assistance editing this Article. 1 Christian C. Day, Law Schools Can Solve the Bar Pass Problem - Do the Work!, 40 CAL. W. L. REv. 321, 324 (2004). 2 For example, a state resident's cost of attending a public university's law school for one academic year (nine months) is approximately $28,013 ($11,981 tuition and fees; $12,128 books and living expenses; $1278 travel; and, $2626 miscellaneous expenses). UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAw 2005-2006 QUICK FACTS (2005). Bar review and exam application fees are also expensive. Soc'y of Am. Law Teachers, Society of American Law

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