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Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, Third Edition

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Authors
  • Mary Basick
  • Tina Schindler
Series / Bar Review Series
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Book length
896 pages
Publication Date
2025-04-16
Edition
Third Edition
Description
Table of contents
Preface
The Third Edition of Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam contains everything needed to pass the essay portion of the California bar exam. The book combines a comprehensive, yet efficiently concise review of volumes of substantive law with the authors' proven-effective strategic plan for writing passing bar essays. Rule outlines are supplemented with issues checklists to aid issue spotting and memorization attack sheets, to make memorization manageable, while practice questions productively cover favorite and newly added testing areas so that bar study is targeted and effective. 
 
New to the Third Edition:
  • Recent and updated rule developments in all subjects
  • Expanded coverage of new topics emphasized on recent bar exams
  • Updated issues tested matrices, rule memorization attack sheets, and topic specific approaches to reflect current testing trends, as well new testing charts for heavily tested topics such as conflicts of interest in Professional Responsibility or Fourth Amendment approach in Criminal Procedure, as well as others
  • Three new essay questions and corresponding grids per subject including crossover questions
  • Three sample answers per chapter with updated grids for all questions
  • Testing strategies and approach to taking an online bar exam
 
Professors and students will benefit from:
  • Concise easy to memorize rule statements
  • Fact triggers and exam tips that aid the transition to bar exam writing style
  • New charts for some heavily tested topics to aid visual learners
  • Easy to follow essay approaches for key topics
  • Practice essay questions with corresponding answer grids identifying issues and analysis required for a passing score
  • Realistic sample answers that could be written under timed conditions, closed book
  • Coverage of all heavily and newly tested topics in each subject and crossover questions
  • Issues tested matrices identifying the subtopics tested in every essay given in 35+ years
 
 
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Table of Contents
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION
PART 1  BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS
PART 2  CIVIL PROCEDURE
PART 3  COMMUNITY PROPERTY
PART 4  CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
PART 5  CONTRACTS
PART 6  CRIMES
PART 7  EVIDENCE
PART 8  PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
PART 9  REAL PROPERTY
PART 10  REMEDIES
PART 11  TORTS
PART 12  WILLS AND TRUSTS
PART 13  CROSSOVER QUESTIONS
 
 
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About the authors
Mary Basick
Assistant Dean for Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Mary Basick is the Assistant Dean of Academic Skills at UC Irvine Law School. She has successfully designed programs, developed innovative and engaging curricula, and taught courses in academic skills and bar preparation for over twenty years. Dean Basick utilizes best practices, statistical data, effective teaching pedagogy, and cognitive learning theory to develop and implement programming, resulting in historic bar passage success at several law schools. Dean Basick has coauthored popular best-selling books on bar preparation, consults and provides expert commentary on the bar exam and preparation, and is a member of the California State Bar Law School Council. She received the 2025 Impact Award from the Association of Academic Success Educators for her bar exam advocacy.

Tina Schindler
Associate Director of Academic Skills
University of California, Irvine

Professor Schindler is the Associate Director of Academic Skills at University of California, Irvine School of Law. For almost two decades, she has designed academic and bar exam support programs at a variety of schools, created innovative curricula, directed bar preparation programs and pre-admission law school programs, taught courses and workshops in all California bar tested subjects, and published books that enable students to pass both the essay and performance test portion of the California Bar Exam.

She co-authored (with Mary Basick) a popular and highly rated bar preparation book, Essay Exam Writing for the California Bar Exam, which is in its third edition. She also co-authored (with Mary Basick) the book, California Performance Test Workbook: Preparation for the Bar Exam, in its second edition. Her work was also published in the book, Your Guide to Taking the Bar (Again).

Professor Schindler has also taught doctrinal classes in the areas of Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Remedies. Professor Schindler’s experiences also involve grading and lecturing for several bar preparation companies, serving on several committees related to bar passage, and presenting on bar exam topics at national conferences. With a Microbiology undergraduate major, she also successfully sat for the patent bar exam and worked on patent applications in her early career years.
Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2025-04-16
Copyright Year
2025
Pages
896
Paperback
9781543858389
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798894100920
Audiobook
9798899630941
eBook + Study Center + Audiobook
9798899632679
Subject
Bar Preparation
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