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

January 12, 2021 By Bar Exam Toolbox Leave a Comment

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

Thanks for listening!
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Podcast Episode 116: California Bar Exam Results Are Out! What’s Next If You Didn’t Pass?

January 8, 2021 By Bar Exam Toolbox Leave a Comment

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Results from the latest California bar exam have just come out, and there’s not a lot of time to prepare for the February 2021 exam if you failed. Is it feasible to sit for the exam that’s coming up, or would it be better to postpone? Join us for this episode, where we try to help you make this decision as rapidly as possible.

In this episode we discuss:

  • Important questions to ask yourself based on your exam results
  • What if you are working and studying?
  • Advice for foreign-trained attorneys
  • If you decide to try again in February, what should you focus on?
  • Tools that can help improve your scores quickly
  • To what extent can you predict the essay topics?

Thanks for listening!
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Podcast Episode 115: Listen and Learn — Dying Declaration vs. Excited Utterance

January 5, 2021 By Bar Exam Toolbox Leave a Comment

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In episode 101 we covered two hearsay exceptions, namely present sense impression and state of mind. Today, we’ll discuss two more exceptions that are also commonly tested, and those are dying declaration and excited utterance.

In this episode we discuss:

  • How to structure your Evidence essay
  • A review of what hearsay and hearsay exceptions are
  • The rules of the dying declaration and excited utterance exceptions
  • Analyzing several hypos involving hearsay
  • The importance of evaluating each statement at issue as to whether or not it’s hearsay

Thanks for listening!
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Diploma Privilege During the COVID-19 Crisis

January 4, 2021 By Christen Morgan Leave a Comment

Diploma Privilege During the COVID-19 CrisisSince the start of the COVID-19 crisis, the bar exam has been in flux.

By the time that you are reading this post, many states have already completed their issuance of an in-person exam, a remote exam, or canceled the exam altogether. Whereas some states have offered a diploma privilege option to qualified candidates. This option, which has existed as a valid alternative to the bar for some time in Wisconsin, has stirred up some controversy as a safe alternative to in-person testing during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, five states have implemented this as an option in 2020. [Read more…] about Diploma Privilege During the COVID-19 Crisis

Your Frequently Asked Questions Answered: Failing and Retaking the Bar Exam

December 28, 2020 By Shirlene Brown Leave a Comment

5 Tips for the Week Before the Bar ExamYou finished law school and spent months studying and stressing over the bar exam. You suffered through the two or three day exam and waited patiently for results to come in. When you looked at the list of individuals who passed, you could not find your seat number anywhere. Unfortunately, you knew what this meant – you failed the bar exam. So, what should you do? What are some tips for retaking the exam? Should you give up your dreams and forget the bar exam? In order to help you through this difficult time, I have answered some questions that you may be asking regarding failing and retaking the bar exam. Hopefully these answers will provide you some guidance and encouragement during this disheartening experience. [Read more…] about Your Frequently Asked Questions Answered: Failing and Retaking the Bar Exam

Managing Covid, the Holidays, and Bar Study

December 23, 2020 By Ariel Salzer Leave a Comment

Managing Covid, the Holidays, and Bar StudyAs we head into the holiday season, some of my students have been asking about how to manage it all: COVID-19, trying to socially distance for family gatherings, wondering whether and when to book trips home—all compounded by the added stress and anxiety of bar study.

If you’ve had any these topics on your mind, these steps are for you!

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