Tag: Academic Success

Extended Bar Prep study sessions

Friday 6:30 – 8:30 PM

  • Topic: Business Associations
  • Remote session : Visit the ASP BrightSpace calendar for the link
  • NLR Note: I have a 5:30 appointment in Green that predates selection of this time. The prompt will be posted in the ASP BrightSpace page (along with a Google Doc link). Zoom will open for the session as soon as one of you arrives. I will find an internet connection as close to 6:30 as possible, but start issue spotting until I get there!

Saturday 11:00 – 1:00 <<- Note the new time!

  • Topic: Constitutional Law (Commerce Clause)
  • Room 325 – in person session

These are essay-writing sessions designed primarily for those taking a bar exam in February or July – but anyone is welcome to drop in! They are a good way to enhance your essay-writing skills, to refresh substantive knowlege that is a distant memory, or get a sneak peek at subjects you haven’t taken yet.

Extended Bar Prep study sessions

Friday 6:30 – 8:30 PM

  • Topic: Trusts and Future Estates
  • Remote session : Visit the ASP BrightSpace calendar for the link

Saturday 10:30 – 12:30

  • Topic: Property (likely joint tenancy/tenancy in common/tenancy by the entireties)
  • Room 325 – in person session

These are essay-writing sessions designed primarily for those taking a bar exam in February or July – but anyone is welcome to drop in! They are a good way to enhance your essay-writing skills, to refresh substantive knowlege that is a distant memory, or get a sneak peek at subjects you haven’t taken yet.

We’ll have a 10,000 foot overview of trusts and future estates on Friday, but we’ll likely dive right in to the property essay on Saturday.

Extended Bar Prep study sessions

Akron Law offers bar prep study sessions from September/October through the July bar exam. They are two hours sessions in which we tackle actual bar exam questions and construct an answer that would earn a 6/6 on the bar exam.

If the bar exam is right around the corner (February or July), they are excellent practice for you! Attending as few as 3 sessions strongly correlates with a higher chance of passing the bar exam. They are also good early practice, even for 1L students, when we tackle the 1L subjects!

If you think you might be interested in attending, vote here to help choose the days and times for the sessions between now and December. (Priority will be given to the preferences for those graduating in December.)

Questions? Contact Nancy Reeves, assistant dean for academic success (nlr22@uakron.edu)

Introduction to (bar exam) Multistate Performance Test

Friday 3/8 in L-280, from 3:00 – 6:00 PM, there will be an Introduction to the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) workshop.

UBE jurisdictions, Ohio, and most other states include the Multistate Performance Test on the bar exam. (At least two more states, Pennsylvania and California, include a performance test they write themselves).

The concept of the MPT is simple: you are given a task that a first year associate would be assigned, and all the facts and law you need to complete it. The challenge is that you only have 90 minutes to write it, you can’t tear the packet apart, you can’t highlight it, and it is a race against time to finish it – especially if you don’t develop a good system to work your way through it.

The workshop is a make-up class for Advanced Legal Applications (final semester bar skills course). That said – you are invited even if you’re not in ALA – or are in the online version of the extended bar prep class. This is a good opportunity to start developing an MPT strategy so you can earn most of the points that are allocated to the MPT on the bar exam (13.33% in Ohio and 20% on the UBE).

Questions? Nancy Reeves, Assistant Dean for Academic Success – nlr22@uakron.edu