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Ultimate Guide to the UBE (Uniform Bar Exam) Redesigned, Second Edition

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Authors
  • Melissa Hale
  • Antonia Miceli
  • Tania N. Shah
Series / Bar Review Series
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Book length
1296 pages
Publication Date
2022-03-23
Edition
Second Edition
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Table of contents
Preface

Addressing the relative newness of the UBE, The Ultimate Guide to the UBE provides a detailed approach to the exam, utilizes real students’ past bar exam answers (including real bar exam scores), and includes commentary from expert contributors for added insight and perspective on how students can improve their own exam writing scores. 

In the past decade the UBE has gone from being adopted by merely a few jurisdictions to over 40, including Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Texas, and soon Pennsylvania in July of 2022. This encompasses a large percentage of students taking the Bar Exam. It also means that many students, as well as bar prep professionals, have questions about the UBE. We seek to provide one guide that addresses everything anyone would want to know about the UBE, most importantly, how to prepare for it.

Melissa Hale, and Antonia (Toni) Miceli, and Tania Shah are experts in bar exam preparation, each having taught in the field for over a decade. As the UBE becomes more prevalent, we encounter more and more people with questions about how the UBE works and how best to prepare for each section of the UBE. This book is intended to be a “one-stop shop” for all things UBE!

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Addressing the relative newness of the UBE, this guide provides a step-by-step process for tackling each section of the exam, utilizing real students’ past bar exam answers (including real bar exam scores), and employing expert contributors’ commentary for added perspective.
  • The straightforward approach of this book appeals to students, and includes: outlines, charts, easily digestible content, and good humor to engage students in material that might otherwise seem dry or overwhelming.
  • Above all, students want to see what an actual exam answer looks like, not just be told how to write the “perfect” (and mostly impossible) essay answer. In the Ultimate Guide to the UBE, students can see what real bar exam takers did under timed conditions. They can read expert commentary on real bar exam answers, and step into the shoes of a bar exam grader by critiquing real bar exam answers themselves. Students can see, firsthand, what separates a score of 1 from a score of 3 from a score of 6 out of 6, and learn how to push their own score up the grading scale.
  • Memorizing rules separate from the essay-writing process is not a winning strategy; practicing writing an essay while looking up the rules enables students to hone their analysis skills and learn the rules. The online appendices provide all the substantive law students need to complete the questions in this book, allowing students to focus on the skill development piece of bar review, rather than guessing the applicable rule.
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Appendices

Appendix A Appendix B Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G Ancillary Materials (Updated 2022)
About the authors
Melissa Hale
Professor
Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Melissa Hale is a Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she has served as the Director of Academic Success and Bar Programs since 2018, having previously taught at the University of the District of Columbia. In these roles, Prof. Hale has developed the Academic Success program at Loyola University, teaching Bar Exam Fundamentals and Bar Exam Writing, as well as running the Academic Enhancement Program for first-year students. Prof. Hale is a regular presenter on the topics of law school academic support and bar exam preparation, especially as it relates to the Uniform Bar Exam. Her research focuses on student success and teaching and learning pedagogy.

Professor Hale is considered a national leader in academic support practice and pedagogy, and her guidance is routinely sought by her colleagues. She presents nationally on issues related to first-generation student success, promoting equity in learning, and best practices for both instruction and learning. In 2018, Professor Hale (along with Megan Kreminski at UIC John Marshall) founded the Midwest Consortium on Academic Success, bringing together academic support educators from across Illinois and neighboring states. She is also a regular contributor to the Academic Support Blog and is a member of the CALI Law School Success Fellowship. In 2020, Professor Hale became the President-Elect of the Association of American Support Educators, and, in 2021, served as Chair of the AALS section on Academic Support.

Education BS (Political Science and Psychology), Central Michigan University, 2002 JD, New England Law, 2006.

Antonia Miceli
Program Director and Professor of Practice
Arizona State University

Toni Miceli joined the ASU College of Law faculty in August 2024 and serves as the inaugural Director of the Bar Exam Success Program. Previously, she served on the faculty of Saint Louis University School of Law for 13 years, where she also served as the Director of Academic and Bar Exam Success.

Prof. Miceli is passionate about developing the next generation of attorneys through innovative and effective teaching methods, curriculum design, and assessment strategies. In creating robust academic and bar exam success programs, she focuses on creating self-regulated learners and developing the skills necessary for students to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in practice.

Prof. Miceli is a leading expert on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE) and NextGen Bar Exam, as well as integrating bar exam and practice-ready skills throughout the curriculum. Her book, The Ultimate Guide to the UBE, has been widely adopted by law schools. In 2023, Prof. Miceli worked with Prof. Ann Scarlett (SLU Law) on creating a series of Civil Procedure Modules for the AccessLex Building Bar Skills Initiative, which provides Civil Procedure faculty with a series of five modules to integrate NextGen Bar skills into their courses and provide students with a hands-on opportunity to gain context for this challenging 1L subject. Most recently, Prof. Miceli was invited to work on a second generation module building team, this time creating a multi-subject module to integrate NextGen Bar skills into upper-level courses.

A 2023 recipient of the AccessLex Barriers and Interventions Grant, Prof. Miceli has a strong passion for academic excellence and intellectual inquiry that draws on her experience in cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. As a trained epidemiologist, Prof. Miceli is unfailingly logical, data driven, and an empirical thinker. She applies her data-driven and student-focused lens to all her programming and curricular development, working to create more access for diverse students to enter the legal academy and practice of law.

Her current scholarship focuses on empowering neurodivergent law students and breaking down adversarial state bar examiner accommodation policies so the legal profession can embrace, rather than lose, this talented pool of new talent. Prof. Miceli is a past President of the Association of Academic Support Educators and serves on several national legal working groups, advisory committees, and boards.

Tania Shah
Visiting Assistant Professor of Lawyering Skills
Western State College of Law

Tania N. Shah was born and raised in Southern California. Tania is a published author, a practicing corporate attorney, serial entrepreneur, professor of law, and rescue-dog lover. Tania is currently a full-time law professor at Western State College of Law as part of Westcliff University in Irvine, California, and is a legal instructor at Washington University School of Law in their Master of Legal Studies Program. Tania also teaches for the Law Division of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing supplemental educational and career support to incoming Ivy League law students from underserved communities.

Tania owns LawTutors, LLC (a legal education company), Shah Law, LLC (a business law firm), and is co-owner of In The Know Legal (a legal template company). Tania was recently featured in Boston Voyager Magazine for her unique approach to legal education, was the winner of Boston University’s 2010 Young Lawyer’s Chair award in 2010, and was featured as one of the Top 100 Attorneys for 2020.

Tania has taught as an adjunct professor for Bar Preparation at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth School of Law (where she also taught full time), Boston University School of Law, and Suffolk University School of Law. Tania graduated from U.C. Berkeley, where she was a commencement speaker, and Boston University School of Law, where she was Executive Editor of the Science and Technology Law Review and a Moot Court finalist, going on to compete at Nationals.

Education B.A., B.S., U.C. Berkeley J.D., Boston University School of Law.
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Edition
Second Edition
Publication date
2022-03-23
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
1296
Paperback
9781543856378
Subject
Bar Preparation
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