Perrin

I am involved in a Class Action lawsuit alleging antitrust violations by barbri that make the courses much more expensive, and substantively worse (outdated materials, etc.), because of numerous outright illegal actions taken by barbri to become a dominant monopoly. The Class will be comprised of everyone who took a barbri course in 2007 or thereafter. Am I right that that would include you?

If so, I wanted to ask you, first and foremost: how did you feel about the course? Lots of people have lots of complaints, e.g. "I didn't even get my practice essays back until after the exam!", etc. I found you through your facebook group all about paying $3000 for a barbri ipod, which I thought might indicate that you're a little disgruntled about the experience in general, especially if you paid for it yourself.

Also, if it so happens that you failed the bar, you might be interested to know that passage rates are down dramatically all around the country since barbri's illegal anti-competitive behavior started, based on the failure of barbri to improve (or even just update!) their product like they would HAVE to do if they still had any legitimate competition in the market.

I don't know if you took antitrust in law school, but if you did, then I don't need to tell you about the principles involved here... or about the automatic trebling of damages in most antitrust actions.

I'm eager to pick your brain about this... don't worry, I'll be gentle.

dgmlaw

hi, i am a foreign trained lawyer also, may i know if you were required by NY Board of examiners to take LLM in order to sit to bar exams, what country are you from?
thank you

nyjoeygk

I was not a foreign trained lawyer.

jcphilaw

This is a silly question but I hope you will answer it.

What BarBri materials did you focused most? How important is PMBR in passing the exam?
Thanks,

nyjoeygk

Well, that depends. I did PMBR up until the Barbri classes started when I took the mid-term multistate test I got a 135 raw. So after that, I did not work to hard on the multi state portion.

Don’t spend to much time on the NY Multiple choice. Don’t spend too much time on the MPT. Do one or two, but read the entire book—semi quickly.

jcphilaw

Thank you for replying back, I am foreign law graduate and hopefully I would be able to take the bar this July 2008. I would like to know which material would I concentrate, is it the PMBR, the coniviser mini review New York... I really dont know which book I would concentrate to pass this exam. Your thoughts please...

brookny

Hi, I am a local student in NY who paid $150 for new baroutlines.com bar outlines and lectures and $50 for used Barbri practice essays and $50 for used PMBR practice MBE questions.

I passed the first time.