gregh  2007-12-03 12:50  bar  Law_School  mpre   

Well, I wasn't horribly worried about the MPRE, but the test was crazy enough that I felt I couldn't be too sure. Alas, I passed with room to spare.

Even though my Legal Ethics professor insisted that the class wouldn't help us much to prepare for the MPRE, I think he was wrong. Ironically, most useful was my recently completed California Civil Discovery class, which focused on issues of conflicts and trusts and investigators and whatnot early on.

Otherwise, I did the BarBri lecture, ran through the sample questions on the MPRE website, and reviewed the Chemerinsky outline. So, I was a bit worried that I had been too lackadaisical.

Here's what I really learned. Having glanced at the "Professional Responsibility" BarBri outline, I am not looking forward to bar exam prep.

gregh  2007-10-27 17:19  Law_School  mpre   

It's a dream Saturday, for sure. Leave home by 8 AM to get to a hotel in Santa Clara, only to sit in a conference room watching a prominent constitutional scholar on DVD lecture on "all [we] need to know for the MPRE." The Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam is a real treat. Like the more ridiculous Multistate Bar Exam, it is an objective exam on made up law. Why made up? Because no state adopts the ABA's Model Code in whole; California's Rules of Professional Conduct are structure wildly differently.

If I've pitched it to be as fascinating as possible, I discovered this morning that one can apparently take the lecture for free. Despite the note on my registration confirmation email, there was no pre-registration required. However, I was to arrive with a copy of the email and a picture ID. Of course, no one ever looked at them, even when they asked if I had already received my MPRE study guide.

Of course, I did pay for all of this. But if you can think of no better way to spend 4 hours on a Saturday morning, just track the schedule for your area, too.