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Here are two questions lots of graduating 3Ls are asking right now: "How do I study for the Exam and how important is it?"

A California attorney has answers to those questions.  Todd Stevenson is not only a practicing lawyer in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California, but he's also,"The Bar Exam Doctor."  He has been tutoring students over five years now for this critical part of the California Bar Exam, and he wrote the following as a response. 

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If you have not yet taken a law school exam, this gives you a view of what happens to your brain during the pre-exam study period.  Click Here.

"It behooves us," William Safire wrote, "to avoid archaisms.  Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do."

Safire (1929-2009) was an American author, New York Times columnist, and presidential speechwriter.

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Do you have some favorite mnemonic devices that you use to memorize rules, exclusions, elements and so on?

Here's an example . . . Res Ipsa Loquitur can be found in a PEA!

That's right!

P ... Probability that the plaintiff was injured through no fault of her own.

E ... Exclusive control over the instrumentality by defendant.

A ... Absent negligence, the injury most likely would not have happened.

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Referring to a lawyer's “...unwise and misplaced strategic choice to litigate, ostrich-like, with his head in the sand," the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision granting a dismissal of a lawsuit after a lawyer failed to respond to a summary judgment motion.

Why didn't the lawyer respond?  His computer wasn't functioning properly.

Start practicing now.  Double-check.  "Oops, I thought the final exam was on Wednesday" doesn't cut it.  "I didn't hear about the review session."  Ouch.

300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree (FREE Live Webcast - NO CLE).

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Not all lawyers are litigators.  If you are thinking your future is not in the courtroom or in the corporate counsel's office, you may benefit from this session.