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Extended Bar Review

Extended Bar Review

Course Number: LAW-864
Course Type: Foundational
Credits: 2
Enrollment Limit: Determined by the Registrar
Description: Extended Bar Review is designed to jumpstart your bar exam preparation by developing your substantive knowledge and sharpening your critical bar exam success skills. Specifically, you will receive in-depth review of highly tested topics in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Real Property. You will then put that knowledge to use working through practice MBE and essay questions. You will learn how to develop a strong but flexible framework to resolve bar exam problems, sharpen your reading comprehension, issue identification, rule mastery,
critical thinking, and legal analysis.
This course is provided by our partner Barbri Legal Education. It is an online,
asynchronous course. Participating students will be required to participate in the course each week and to meet at least once with L&C Professor Sandy Patrick.
Prerequisite: Students must be planning to take the February 2023 bar exam to be eligible to enroll. Email Associate Dean Libby Davis (eadavis@lclark.edu) to request permission to enroll.
Evaluation Method: Exams, regular participation in the online portal, regular attendance (no more than two absences allowed to continue in the course), and required meeting with Professor Sandy Patrick.
Capstone: no
WIE: no

The American Bar Association accreditation standards require students to regularly attend the courses in which they are registered. Lewis & Clark expects students to attend classes regularly and to prepare for classes conscientiously. Specific attendance requirements may vary from course to course. Any attendance guidelines for a given class must be provided to students in a syllabus or other written document at the start of the semester. Sanctions (e.g., required withdrawal from the course, grade adjustment, and/or a failing grade) will be imposed for poor attendance.