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Bar Exam Success: A Comprehensive Guide, 2d ed. 

Big picture? Find and hold fast to your why?

Practical Tip? Take many practice tests and study sample answers!

For those who have a spring break, this is a time to let yourself rest, spend time with family and friends, and reconnect to your own inner spark. Be in the moment but focus for at least a few minutes on your why — and know that the work you are doing on your journey is meaningful. .

Lots of great advice on bar passage, law school success, etc. Honored to be featured on page 31 on getting motivated. Bursts of hard work are do-able even when not fully engaged, but deep motivation is essential for sustained effort and successful outcomes. Check out the issue here and past issues here.

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Starting law school? Midway through 1L and trying to make sense of “legal-ease” and get a head start on what professors will want on exams? The book is for you! This is your 1L success companion.

Law school is hard but so worth it. You will be earning a degree that opens doors for a lifetime. You will be earning a license that allows you to change lives and better the world.

The book will help as you move along your success journey. This path is different from academic achievements in the past; law professors teach and test differently than in other academic settings. Law school is a place where you will learn to think more logically and problem solve within the guidelines of law and ethics. The better sense you have of what’s really going on and how to maximize your own potential beginning in 1L, the better off you will be.

Yes, you will be learning law, in subjects such as criminal law, torts, and contracts and many others. But in addition to learning rules of law, you want to learn rules of the game and skills that will make you a great lawyer. And, you want to be confident that you are on track. Your mindset and your approach are key.

Take a moment now to think about what kind of a person you would want to hire if you had a legal problem today—if you got arrested or were sued and needed help. Now take another moment and ask what kind of lawyer you will be?

1L Success: Becoming a Lawyer, a Professional Identity Formation Workbook takes you through the entire 1L year, providing solid and invaluable tips, along with reflections so that you can take a deeper look and find deeper meaning (and greater rewards!) from all the effort you are putting in.

The book also talks about how to find the motivation and inspiration to study when you are not feeling it (and you won’t every day). We’ll look at proven strategies to overcome challenges and techniques to help you achieve your success goals.

Wherever you are in the process, if you are thinking about applying to law school, are about to start, or are well into your first year, this book will help you be the best first year law student you can be —and enjoy the process along the way!

The book is also a great gift for a friend or family member who is about to start or has started law school.

The bar exam is not just another test, and this book is not just another set of instructions. This book is your personal success guide.

Whether taking a UBE or a state-specific bar, students need to not only master the material but to train and prepare for one of the toughest high-stakes exam experiences around. This book will more than prepare you to pass the bar exam; the author’s words will motivate you to do what it takes to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in the legal profession. Particular chapters will help you to:

• Reduce Distractions, Increase Focus, and Manage and Protect Your Time
• Employ Powerfully Effective Learning Strategies
• Develop and Stick to Your Schedule
• Practice and Hone Skills for Success on MBEs, Essays, and MPTs
• Cope with Stress and Pressure, and Help Your Friends and Family to Help You Succeed
• Enhance your Positive Growth Mindset, Personal Wellness, and Sense of Belonging
• Transition with Confidence from Law Student to Professional

This book is written from the perspective of a bar mentor, your “trainer at the academic gym,” with concrete advice on how to handle the many challenges facing today’s law students. There are dozens of self-assessments, tools to help you face very real challenges on every level, and to organize and prepare to pass the bar exam. The book includes trustworthy advice and powerful personal examples from the author’s decades of helping students pass bar exams nationwide. The book is uplifting and positive, while harnessing cutting-edge, scientific learning theories.

The time spent studying for the bar exam that so many people dread and think of as a hazing ritual can be an empowering stage, if you approach it with the right attitude, get yourself equipped for success, and then work really hard. The author calls legal education “a power tool for social change.” Passing the bar and becoming licensed will allow you to wield that tool and find opportunities throughout your professional life to do well and to do good.

Whether you are first in your law school class or last, this book will help you achieve your goals and set you on a lifelong cycle of success.

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