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Podcast Episode 122: Listen and Learn — Easements (Real Property)

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode of our “Listen and Learn” series, we’re discussing easements, which is one of the more common Real Property topics on bar exam essays.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Easements – the rule statement
  • Three important questions to consider when thinking about easements
  • The different ways in which an easement can be created
  • The two main types of easements
  • How an easement could end
  • Analyzing two Real Property hypos, from the July 2016 and February 2007 California bar exams

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Podcast Episode 121: Listen and Learn — Character Evidence

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re talking about the Federal Rules of Evidence, and how to apply the rules of character evidence to both civil and criminal case hypos.

In this episode we discuss:

  • In what cases character evidence may be admissible in court
  • The difference in the rules of character evidence for civil and criminal cases
  • How character evidence is presented in direct examination vs. cross examination
  • Going through two hypos, from the July 2010 and February 2016 California bar exams
  • Using a “Where, What, Why, Who, When, and How” framework to analyze fact patterns

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Podcast Episode 120: Listen and Learn — Piercing the Corporate Veil

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our “Listen and Learn” series, where we review a substantive area of the law and apply that law to fact patterns. This time we’re looking at piercing the corporate veil, which is a commonly-tested issue in Corporations and LLC essays.

In this episode we discuss:

  • What exactly is the corporate veil?
  • The four situations in which a court will pierce the corporate veil and hold the shareholders personally liable
  • What does it mean for a corporation to act as its shareholders’ alter ego?
  • Analyzing a hypo from the February 2017 California bar exam
  • Other issues that are often tested together with piercing the corporate veil
  • The difference between piercing corporate and LLC veils

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Podcast Episode 119: Listen and Learn — Anticipatory Repudiation (Contracts)

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our “Listen and Learn” series, we’re talking about anticipatory repudiation, which is an often-tested issue both on the MBE and on Contracts essays.

In this episode we discuss:

  • What is anticipatory repudiation?
  • What constitutes an “unequivocal communication”?
  • Presenting a demand for adequate assurances of the contract’s completion
  • Rights and remedies available to the non-repudiating party
  • Topics that anticipatory repudiation is tested alongside of
  • Going through two hypos from bar exam Contracts essays

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Podcast Episode 118: More on Memorization for the Bar Exam

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re revisiting the best memorization techniques for long-term retention of material. There are many different ways to memorize, and you have to test them to figure out which ones work best for you.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Why is memorization such a problem for many bar studiers?
  • How much is realistic to memorize for each of the heavily-tested areas?
  • Some of the most effective ways to memorize
  • How to focus your time so you are as productive as possible
  • Practicing the material you have memorized
  • When is it too late to start memorizing?

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Podcast Episode 117: Listen and Learn — Due Process and Equal Protection (Con Law)

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Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this week’s episode, as part of our “Listen and Learn” series, we’re talking about an important area of Constitutional Law — the Fourteenth Amendment. Specifically, we take a look at procedural due process, substantive due process, and equal protection.

In this episode we discuss:

  • A review of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
  • The procedure for analyzing substantive due process, procedural due process, and equal protection
  • The Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge
  • Strict scrutiny, intermediate scrutiny, and rational basis
  • How to identify state interest
  • Going through a Constitutional Law fact pattern from the July 2013 California bar exam

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