Quarterly column on bar exam success
Bar planning dovetails with career planning
DECEMBER 01, 2021
If you haven’t yet found your place in law, you’re not alone. The process of planning to pass the bar exam can help you get there.
Let positive thoughts about the bar exam process and the future keep you on track
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Bar exam preparation—successful bar exam preparation—requires months of full-time work after law school graduation. Law school success requires three years of hard work, four years for part-time students. Succeeding at your first law job requires intense focus and incredible effort. But in each of these
How the bar exam could change
MARCH 01, 2021
There are many unanswered questions when it comes to future plans for the exam.
Motivation, growth, and the bar exam
JANUARY 01, 2021
This winter, as 1Ls reflect on their first completed semester, 2Ls—who are halfway done— consider what they want to do in the remaining year and a half, and 3Ls think about finishing up their final semester and passing the bar exam, I encourage all of you to think
Training tools you can use to achieve civility
NOVEMBER 01, 2020
For all the lawyer jokes out there, and despite there obviously being some particularly rude law students, legal educators, and practicing attorneys, many more regularly practice politeness, especially in their professional roles. Think, for example, of courtesies extended in courts, where attorneys must address judges
Preparing for the bar exam and practice during a pandemic
SEPTEMBER 01, 2020
In any other year, 2020 law school graduates would have taken the July bar exam and would now be working or looking for law jobs while awaiting bar exam results. But this is no ordinary year. The events of this spring and summer have disrupted nearly everything that seemed routine just months ago.
Student Success 101: Reduce distractions and increase focus
APRIL 01, 2020
To thrive academically, and pass the bar exam the first time around, you must combat distractions with enormous discipline. You must be on—mind, body, and spirit. To do this, you need to ruthlessly protect your time and put up walls around everything that steals time and focus from your studies.
How to track, then budget, your time
APRIL 01, 2020
How can you reduce distractions and make more time for bar prep? Begin by identifying what takes your time. Below, approximate how many hours per week you spend on each item. Remember, there are only 168 possible hours in any given week. _____ Work (keep
Your GPS to summer bar success
JANUARY 01, 2020
Intensive bar preparation is a “long, strange trip” (apologies to the Grateful Dead). You need your Bar Success GPS—something you don’t want to be frantically pulling together in June and July. Start early. Start now.
Sara J. Berman 