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The bar exam is the final hurdle in your law school journey and the culmination of years of hard work and dedication. Passing it is

You worked hard to get into law school, but the real challenge is just beginning. The first year of law school (known as 1L) will

You probably have a host of reasons for wanting to become a lawyer. Maybe you’re carrying on a family tradition or excited to work inside

Taking notes during law school lectures, as well as incorporating relevant material from the casebooks into those notes, is essential for all law students because

Producing a passing law school essay exam answer is perhaps the most difficult aspect of law school. It requires all of your hard-won skills –

During my first semester of law school, a visiting professor offered to assist our class with developing our legal writing skills. After hours of drafting

How To Study For the Bar Exam

How To Study For the Bar Exam

The bar exam is the final hurdle in your law school journey and the culmination of years of hard work…

10 Law School Tips To Ace Your First Year

10 Law School Tips To Ace Your First Year

You worked hard to get into law school, but the real challenge is just beginning. The first year of law…

What Is the MPRE?

What Is the MPRE?

You probably have a host of reasons for wanting to become a lawyer. Maybe you’re carrying on a family tradition…

How To Take Notes During Law School Lectures

How To Take Notes During Law School Lectures

Taking notes during law school lectures, as well as incorporating relevant material from the casebooks into those notes, is essential…

Why is it so Difficult to Achieve a Passing Score on Law School and Bar Exams?

Why is it so Difficult to Achieve a Passing Score on Law School and Bar Exams?

Producing a passing law school essay exam answer is perhaps the most difficult aspect of law school. It requires all…

Legal Terms All Law Students And Lawyers Should Know

Legal Terms All Law Students And Lawyers Should Know

During my first semester of law school, a visiting professor offered to assist our class with developing our legal writing…

CA Bar Exam Questions With Answers

CA Bar Exam Questions With Answers

Every law student and bar candidate needs bar exam questions to use for regular exam practice because scoring well on…

Bar Exam Tests Fundamental Lawyering Skills

Bar Exam Tests Fundamental Lawyering Skills

The Bar exam tests a bar candidate's ability to demonstrate fundamental lawyering skills related to legal knowledge combined with the capacity…

Bar Exam Essay Questions With Answers

Bar Exam Essay Questions With Answers

Passing the bar exam requires more than just knowing the law. Passing the bar exam also requires the ability to…

Take Care of YOU While Preparing for the California Bar Exam

Take Care of YOU While Preparing for the California Bar Exam

Preparing for the California Bar Exam is a grind. Taking the California Bar Exam is grueling. And passing the California…

A Good Preparation Strategy is Your Key to Passing the Bar Exam

A Good Preparation Strategy is Your Key to Passing the Bar Exam

With determination, self-discipline, and a tremendous amount of hard work in law school and during bar review, you will be…

Bar Examiners Give a Fleming’s Law Student a Perfect Score on His Essay Exam Answer

Bar Examiners Give a Fleming’s Law Student a Perfect Score on His Essay Exam Answer

Has anyone ever gotten a perfect score on the bar exam? Yes Have you ever seen an essay exam answer…

The Fleming’s Advantage – How to Pass the California State Bar or FYLSE Baby Bar Exams by Utilizing Our Unique Line of Study AIDS

The Fleming’s Advantage – How to Pass the California State Bar or FYLSE Baby Bar Exams by Utilizing Our Unique Line of Study AIDS

For students preparing to take the California Bar Exam or the FYLSE Baby Bar Exams, law school study aids are…

Diverse Opportunities – Fulfilling Your Dream of Being a Corporate Lawyer

Diverse Opportunities – Fulfilling Your Dream of Being a Corporate Lawyer

One of the most coveted positions in the practice of law is to become a corporate lawyer. Generally, it is…

Conquer the MBE and MPRE with Fleming’s as Your Guide!

Conquer the MBE and MPRE with Fleming’s as Your Guide!

What are the MBE and MPRE? The Multistate Bar Examination (“MBE”) is a six-hour, 200-question multiple-choice examination developed by the…

California Bar Exam Prep – Sample Questions With Answers

California Bar Exam Prep – Sample Questions With Answers

Every law student and bar candidate needs strong bar exam sample questions to use for regular exam practice - because…

Bar Exam Prep – The Pros and Cons of Self-Study as Compared to a Formal Bar Review

Bar Exam Prep – The Pros and Cons of Self-Study as Compared to a Formal Bar Review

Although most bar candidates take a formal bar exam course when initiating bar exam prep, self-study is a viable option…

Strategized Preparation is the Key to Passing the Bar Exam — Fleming’s Fundamentals of Law

Strategized Preparation is the Key to Passing the Bar Exam — Fleming’s Fundamentals of Law

Passing the California bar exam on the first attempt is the dream of every law student. Historically, the bar exam…

5 Tips For Success On Law School Exams — Flemings Fundamentals of Law

5 Tips For Success On Law School Exams — Flemings Fundamentals of Law

While the prospect of preparing for law school exams can seem daunting, there are a series of study techniques and…

Turn Studying Into Success On Your Law School Essay Exams

Turn Studying Into Success On Your Law School Essay Exams

To achieve a passing score on your law school essay exams, you must effectively brief your assigned cases, create carefully…

10 Tips to Level Up Your Bar Exam Training

10 Tips to Level Up Your Bar Exam Training

What you do between now and July 26th matters! You have just finished three or four years in law school. Now…

How To Write a First-Class Law School Essay Exam Answer

How To Write a First-Class Law School Essay Exam Answer

Every student wants to write a first-class law school essay exam answer.  To excel at law school essay exam writing,…

The Most Important Skills Course For Law Students to Pass Law Exams

The Most Important Skills Course For Law Students to Pass Law Exams

The most important exam skills required to pass law school exams combine legal knowledge with analysis, reasoning, organization, time management,…

I’m in Law School…What Now???

I’m in Law School…What Now???

Fleming’s has decades of experience helping students not just “get through” law school, but they will help you actually thrive.…

How To Survive Your First Year Of Law School

How To Survive Your First Year Of Law School

You are a first-year law school student. Now what? You know you have to earn passing grades to survive your…

The Performance Test: Your Arena for Bar Victory

The Performance Test: Your Arena for Bar Victory

The MPT and CPT are designed to test your practical legal skills, and thorough preparation is key to success. Resources…

Professional Responsibility Is More Than Just A Passing Grade On The California Bar Exam

Professional Responsibility Is More Than Just A Passing Grade On The California Bar Exam

Professional Responsibility is tested on every California Bar Exam. It is always tested as an essay. It is also frequently…

Professional Responsibility: Broadly Tested on the California Bar Exam

Professional Responsibility: Broadly Tested on the California Bar Exam

Professional Responsibility is tested heavily on the California Bar Exam. You might find PR the subject matter of its own essay…

Overcome Your Exam Anxiety to Achieve Passing Scores on Your Law School Essay Exams and the California State Bar Exam

Overcome Your Exam Anxiety to Achieve Passing Scores on Your Law School Essay Exams and the California State Bar Exam

Performance anxiety is not just for actors and athletes. It is a well-documented response to stress-driven situations, including taking law…

Another Fleming’s Student Aces the Baby Bar!

Another Fleming’s Student Aces the Baby Bar!

We are delighted to share that another one of our students has aced the Baby Bar exam with an outstanding…

Law Dawg Attacks Exams – “Yo quiero Fleming’s!”

Law Dawg Attacks Exams – “Yo quiero Fleming’s!”

Law school takes more than just barking out legal rules. Impressive as that may seem, any old dog can learn…

NCBE Statement on SCOTUS Decisions and the Bar Exam

NCBE Statement on SCOTUS Decisions and the Bar Exam

NCBE Statement on SCOTUS Decisions and the Bar Exam

It Is Never Too Early to Start Studying for the Bar Exam

It Is Never Too Early to Start Studying for the Bar Exam

Fleming's Edge Extended Bar Review There are actually three steps to becoming a lawyer: Go to law school and build…

How The Bar Exam Tests Your Fundamental Lawyering Skills

How The Bar Exam Tests Your Fundamental Lawyering Skills

For those who did not pass, it does not appear their results reflect a lack of legal knowledge. The vast…

Whodunit? Solving the Mystery of Writing a First-Rate Criminal Law Essay Exam

Whodunit? Solving the Mystery of Writing a First-Rate Criminal Law Essay Exam

I was leaving the post office one day and I saw a license plate that was an acronym for Nancy…

Effective Test-Taking Skills

Effective Test-Taking Skills

Being an effective and skillful test-taker is the bedrock to success in law school and on the bar exam.

Fleming’s Performance Exam Workshop – Online and Live

Fleming’s Performance Exam Workshop – Online and Live

The Fleming's Performance Exam Workshop is a four-day course that teaches you a step-by-step method with timing and strategy techniques for…

Strategize Your Way to Passing the California Bar Exam

Strategize Your Way to Passing the California Bar Exam

Taking and passing the California Bar exam will be one of the greatest achievements in your life. Due to the…

Nobody Said It Would Be Easy . . . But It Will be Worth It!

Nobody Said It Would Be Easy . . . But It Will be Worth It!

The Bar Exam The Bar Exam stands between you and your dream of practicing law. You have worked your whole life…

A Bar Examiner Clears Up Performance Exam Myths

A Bar Examiner Clears Up Performance Exam Myths

Myths abound about what is required to pass the Performance Exam, including: The importance of the Call of the Question…

Surviving Your First Year of Law School

Surviving Your First Year of Law School

Put simply, you survive your first year through the law school process, which requires two separate and distinct steps. Step…

Why Outlines are Imperative to Your Success During Law School and Bar Review

Why Outlines are Imperative to Your Success During Law School and Bar Review

The use of substantive outlines is one of the most essential skills for law school students to develop in their…

Calling All “Experienced” Bar Takers!!!

Calling All “Experienced” Bar Takers!!!

Taking the California bar examination once is hard enough. But, what if you find yourself in the position you hoped…

Interview with Bar Exam Readers

Interview with Bar Exam Readers

If you are preparing for the bar exam, you might be wondering what the examiners are looking for in your…

Jill’s Law School Success Story

Jill’s Law School Success Story

I attribute my success to Fleming’s. I practiced writing exams, even before I knew the rules (I just read the…

More Time to Study for the July 2020 Bar Exam

More Time to Study for the July 2020 Bar Exam

As the July 2020 Bar Exam approaches, nearly every one of our bar candidates says the same thing; “I wish I…

A Professor’s Insights About Legal Writing — Flemings Fundamentals of Law

A Professor’s Insights About Legal Writing — Flemings Fundamentals of Law

Have you ever found yourself wondering what the difference is between an ‘A’ student and a ‘C’ student in law…

Best Preparation Practices To Prepare For The July 2020 California Bar Exam

Best Preparation Practices To Prepare For The July 2020 California Bar Exam

Passing the CA Bar Examination requires proper CA bar exam preparation, together with the best preparation practices necessary to achieve success.

What’s Your Story?

What’s Your Story?

Fleming's provides live exam writing workshops throughout the year. You can participate in them either in person or online. These workshops are…

Revisiting a Classic: Law Dawg Attacks Exams – “Yo quiero Fleming’s!”

Revisiting a Classic: Law Dawg Attacks Exams – “Yo quiero Fleming’s!”

Law school takes more than just barking out legal rules. Impressive as that may seem, any old dog can learn…

February 2019 Bar Exam Results Improve By 4% over Last Year

February 2019 Bar Exam Results Improve By 4% over Last Year

According to The State Bar of California, 1,458 bar candidates who took the February 2019 Bar Exam passed. This represents…