Applied Legal Analysis

Applied Legal Analysis is a comprehensive bar preparation course. This class, which focuses on essay-writing techniques and strategies for tackling the Multistate Bar Examination, is designed to give students the skills they need to achieve a passing score on the bar exam of any state. Enrollment in Mastery & Application of Core Doctrine is a co-requisite for the course as the course utilizes the substantive doctrine covered in Mastery & Application of Core Doctrine. To pass the course, students must attend lectures, write several essays and a Multistate Performance Test and rewrite them if necessary to achieve a passing score, and complete a number of multiple choice question sets outside of class. Students may also participate in an individual bar study planning session to receive extra credit. The essays are graded by bar standards and returned to students with comments and a grading rubric. Credit will be given for completion of assigned multiple-choice questions and a learning process track sheet, without respect to the number of questions a student answers correctly. The course also includes guest lectures by current and former bar examiners and recent alumni.

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