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I recently used this book to prepare for New York's bar exam essays. This book gives you a viable succinct format for writing bar exam essays. I took the BarBri workshop and this book was far more useful. It has many practice questions and essays (includes most states). For those of us who do not have the luxury of time to spend in endless workshops, this book allows you to learn the methodology at your own pace, and practice, practice, practice. Definitely worth every penny of the price.

Dr. Gallagher uses a "unique" style to help us understand where our writing is going astray. The Bar Examiners can be your friends, if you practice writing like a lawyer. Her method is made easy to understand, unlike other techniques which must be read and practiced without any support. Her CD gives helpful advice in general and helps you through the writing process.

If you can afford to spend thousands of dollars on additional Bar Prep, consider an alternative. Otherwise, try Dr. Gallagher's techniques and you WILL become a better legal thinker and writer.

This is a good product, and gave good insights into how to write bar essays. It is not specifically geared to CA, which is fine if you aren't in CA. I learned some techniques and strategies that I have applied and improved my essays. It does not provide a lot of samples that I found helpful, but the instruction part is good.

I took BarBri and PMBR. However, neither taught a SYSTEM for writing essay responses. So, I searched for a system and found this book. After practicing the author's "Under Here Therefor" method, and her question-outlining method, I felt much more prepared.

I just passed Nevada's bar exam...one of the more difficult exams. I used the system. I credit this book for making the exam manageable.

Spend the fifty bucks now, and avoid failing!

Very thorough well written exercise that helps prepare people for any bar exam question. I would recommend it for anyone taking the bar in any state. It covers several topics, and includes actual sample essays from a variety of states. THESE ARE ACTUAL BAR EXAM QUESTIONS THAT WERE USED ON PAST BAR EXAMS. No matter what state you are in, it will still be helpful. It is very beneficial to actually get hands on practice and write out the essays.

This will not get you through the bar exam alone, but it's a really good companion piece to other study materials I've found. You may not agree with everything in the book, but the more information the merrier. If you're looking for a cure-all, this is not it; but I do recommend it. There are a couple of other bar related tools that I think are worthy as well:A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar. Also: Barman: Ping-Pong, Pathos, and Passing the Bar

I found this book to be incredibly unhelpful. The author does not offer good strategies for approaching the exam, and includes essays from a range of jurisdictions, which can be confusing at worst and just unhelpful at best. i thought the Adachi books were much better.

This book serves multiple purposes: if you need help figuring out how to successfully compose essay questions on the bar, or even on law school exams, this book will give you great strategies as to how to frame issues, how to use outlines to guide you, and many more in-depth instructions; and if you are already a good writer and would just like some tips to improve the structure of your essays, this book will also address those issues.

Great book for law students to use to improve their structure and thought process for essay questions on exams AND for those who are preparing for the bar - this book will give you the instruction you need to confidently answer all the questions that will be presented to you on that big day.

I thought this book was pretty useful. It was more effective for me to learn writing bar exam essays in this manner in comparison to BarBri.

Great quick guide to teaching a simple method to approaching essays. Barbri and PMBR do not give to much guidance on writing style which is where this book nicely fills the void. There are also practice essays, but if you have Barbri's I would just use those (there are plenty).