The course you describe is not-for-credit. Now that the
American Bar Association allows law schools to give bar-preparation courses for credit, more and more law schools are trying it. The schools in New York State that offered for-credit courses in the spring of 2007 showed remarkable improvement in their bar pass rates for the July 2007 bar exam. Particularly successful elsewhere is the Advanced Bar Studies course given by Professor Yvonne Twiss at Capital Law School in Columbus, Ohio. Capital has jumped in the ratings. I have been following that course from its beginnings, because Professor Twiss's students use a book I wrote for the bar exam essays called Scoring High on Bar Exam Essays. It teaches the Under-Here-Therefore(TM) essay-writing method that I devised.
Mary Campbell Gallagher, J.D., Ph.D., President
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