Thread: Joseph Marino

Overview

Joseph Marino is a bar exam tutor for Essay Advantage (Barbri) and Bar Review and director of MICLE Marino Institute, known for his controversial New York essay predictions. He is also a professor of Applied Legal Studies and director of Applied Skills Program in New York Law School.

On his own web site, Marino Bar Exam Tutors, he provides bar exam preparation services for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Multistate, Essays, MPT, and MPRE. Prices start at $150/hr and 10-hour packages start at $1500.

As the director of Marino Bar Tutors, Joseph Marnia personally trains and supervises all Tutors.

Contact Info

Marino Bar Tutors
321 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028

Tel: (212) 249-3779
Fax: (212) 988-8212
jmarino@nyls.edu

Bio from New York Law School

Joseph Marino proudly carries on a family tradition of teaching bar review that has earned him a national reputation in the area of legal skills education. Professor Marino’s father started the Marino Bar Review in 1946, and Professor Marino started teaching in 1975.

Professor Marino grew up with the bar review family business, doing office work as a high school student; marketing and business operations while attending college at C.W. Post College; and editorial and publishing while a student at St. John’s University Law School, from which he received his J.D. in 1975.

“I knew early on I had a gift, one cultivated by working with my father: the ability to teach doctrinal and conceptual information within the context of its application so that a student not only understands the law but can apply it,” says Professor Marino. He started his own bar courses which became, by 1995, the second largest in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. He attributes his success to a unique pedagogy he calls the “Marino Method,” which can communicate vast amounts of substantive and procedural information by incorporating the learning process within the context of its application.

The techniques he developed in the 1970s have been widely adopted and incorporated into legal education. He developed many of the common approaches and nomenclature associated with essay writing today, emphasizing the IRAC organization for essay writing and coining the phrase “discussible transactions.”

Professor Marino also taught as an adjunct at several law schools and published articles, books, and law school study aids. In 1977, he published the first edition of Marino on New York Practice, a very popular, practical guide used by law students, attorneys, and judges. He is currently working on a new edition. From 1977 to 1984, he wrote the commentaries for McKinney’s Matrimonial and Family Law Forms for New York. In 1981, he began writing the review material for his bar course that included over 20 separate subjects. He has authored thousands of multiple-choice questions and published two books on MBE techniques and approaches.

Professor Marino expanded the approaches he used in a live classroom to distance learning. In the 1980s, he wrote a 1,000-page combination review book and hornbook with accompanying audiotapes to teach Professional Responsibility. He then wrote five interactive study systems for Contracts, Real Property, Torts, Criminal Law, and Civil Procedure that sold nationally.

He began teaching as an adjunct professor at New York Law School in 1994 when he taught New York Practice and Procedure. In 2000, he was named associate director of the Academic Skills Program, developing two courses, New York Law in National Perspective and Consolidated Legal Analysis, both of which are being incorporated as required courses for certain programs at the school. In addition to teaching, Professor Marino is now director of the Applied Skills Program.

Have you worked with JOseph Marino? Post your comments or review below.

I'd like to clear something up which I find incredibly misleading. As seen in the post above, Marino advertises that "Prices start at $150/hr and 10-hour packages start at $1500." But, this is unnecessarily deceiving. The truth is that in order to pay $150 per hour, you MUST buy the 10 sessions. If you buy any less than 10, the charge is $175 per hour. Why they feel a need to bend the truth is quite suspicious. That being said, I would recommend Marino and his team to anyone looking for such services.

I agree, I highly recommend Marino Bar Tutors. It is true that if you purchase anything less then ten hours, you’re charged $175 per hour. However, to truly get the most out of the service you should purchase the ten hour package. I originally purchased two hours, and then bought a ten hour package, and I have to say I really felt good going into the exam. My tutor was great, besides calming me down in the most anxious time of my life. She really walked me through what I needed to do to pass. If your looking for a tutor, they’re the people to talk to.