Free Introductory Session
Covering Winter
2009 Bar Exam

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Saturday, May 30, 2009
11 AM - 1 PM
U.C. Berkeley, International House

2299 Piedmont Ave (at Bancroft)
Room: Home Room
Free introductory bar review session

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Sunday, May 31, 2009
1 PM - 3 PM
Los Angeles
Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
University Hall
Room 3226
Enter from Lincoln Blvd, ask guard for directions

Download LMU map with class location (PDF 450 KB)

Also see: Driving directions

Performance Test
Power

Free introductory session

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Saturday, May 30, 2009
11 AM - 1 PM
U.C. Berkeley, International House

2299 Piedmont Ave (at Bancroft)
Room: Home Room
Free introductory bar review session

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Sunday, May 31, 2009
1 PM - 3 PM
Los Angeles
Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
University Hall
Room 3226
Enter from Lincoln Blvd, ask guard for directions

Download LMU map with class location (PDF 450 KB)

Also see: Driving directions

On May 23 and 24 call Vivian Dempsey for 15 minutes of Free tutoring on your best plan for passing the bar.

Fax your applicant questionnaire first to: (510) 644-3041 or email Viv.

Please do not waste your session complaining about the course you took or venting anger at failing. For appointments other than May 23 and 24, call or email to schedule an appointment after faxing questionnaire.

• The Writing Edge Bar Review Course
• Performance Test Power
• BarBoost for First Time Takers
• Tutoring

The Writing Edge Bar Review Course

U.C. Berkeley
Evans Hall, Room 81
Saturdays: June 6, 2009 - July 25, 2009
9 AM - 6 PM
8 classes over 8 weeks

See: Map

Loyola Marymount University
University Hall, room 3226
Sundays: June 7, 2009  – July 26, 2009
11 AM – 7 PM
8 classes over 8 weeks

See: Driving directions

Videocourse

For those who cannot attend the Berkeley class. All lectures on videotape. Do the same exams, get the same detailed constructive feedback from Vivian and contact Vivian 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Start anytime.

Performance Test Power

More people fail the California Bar Exam because of the performance tests than to any other part of the bar exam—including attorney bar applicants. It makes sense to get the extra assurance you need for this crucial part of the exam. Many people have asked for a Performance Test course from Vivian. This is a brand new course and a cost-effective way to address most applicant’s greatest fear.

Performance Test Power is part of The Writing Edge Bar Review Course. In all live classes for four weeks, Vivian will introduce you to the way performance tests announce issues, give you case rules, and teach you how to read faster with better comprehension, organize to maximize reasoning and write high passing answers in 9 performance tests. She will personally grade 8 of your performance tests. You can learn more about this course by attending the free introduction to Performance Test Power.

*Notice to First-time Takers: Performance Test Power is available to first time takers as well and repeaters and attorney bar applicants. so you can master PT’s early before the intense final push to the bar exam.

BarBoost for First-Time Takers

First-time takers of the California Bar Exam may find the law in a full-service bar course is not detailed or focused and that they do not get meaningful feedback on essays. They may also find that they do not feel adequately prepared for performance tests. At the same time, first-time takers feel overwhelmed by classes in a full-service bar course, so anxiety builds and there is no time for the help they need. Vivian fills that need by giving first timers a course in a book plus her fine grading and access to her for all your questions by email. She gives you the law to focus, what to memorize, a method for analyzing essay questions and PT’s, and she personally grades 15 of your exams—11 essays and 4 Performance Tests. You can also get immediate answers to all your concerns and legal questions, all by email.

Course is limited to first time takers of the California Bar Exam who are currently taking a bar review course.

Tutoring

Vivian Dempsey tutors a limited number of students and is limited to graduates of The Writing Edge.

Through a combination of tutoring sessions by telephone and video conference, plus videotapes, you may take Performance Test Power in your home.

Every weekend for 8 weekends

Every class, there is an exam day, like Tuesday and Thursday of the Bar. Time permitting, you do two essay exams and one PT exam in class. You do any remaining exams for homework, for a total of 5 exams every week that Vivian grades. Vivian gives extensive detailed feedback on 3 essays and 2 PTs every week. Vivian Dempsey is a former California Bar Grader of both essays and Performance tests. In addition to thorough written critiques on each of your exams, she is available to answer questions and counsel you 7 days a week, 12 hours a day by email, phone and fax, and, of course, during every class.

Every weekend, Vivian lectures on the law, exam skills and Performance Test skills. She teaches all classes live in both Berkeley and L.A.

In class, Vivian immediately reviews the exams you wrote in the previous class and during the week. She has already given you personal comments, now in class she lets you in on how she thinks, how she finds the major issues, attaches significance to every word in the essay, and prioritizes issues and plans her time. She then shows you how to write a high passing answer in one hour. After reviewing the essays, Vivian repeats that process with the PT’s—showing you how to find the issues in any PT, how to quickly find the case rules and to put together a simple, logical plan that allows you to maximize reasoning and get high PT scores on the Bar.

The coursebook contains:

9 Performance Tests

100 Essay Exams

Vivian's law outlines on the essential essay law and tools to memorize it.

12 bonus law video classes you watch at home

Bonus tapes contain law lectures on every subject and review of Vivian's PT method
Order of study:

Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Torts & Torts Remedies
Contracts & Contract Remedies
Real Property and Community Property
Evidence
Constitutional Law
Business Associations and Civil Procedure
Wills & Trusts and Professional Responsibility

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