New York Bar Exam Essay Book

What NOT to Write: Real Essays, Real MPT's, Real Feedback (New York Edition)

What NOT to Write: Real Essays, Real MPT's, Real Feedback (New York Edition) by Tania N. Shah, Melissa A. Gill
No lecture on technique or the substantive law prepares you for writing bar exam essays like reading and critiquing actual scored essays and performance tests. All of the sample essays and performance test in What NOT to Write have been written by Read more >

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  • Author(s): Tania N. Shah ,  Melissa A. Gill
  • Media: Paperback
  • Pages: 156
  • Publish Date: 09/21/2009
  • Publication Frequency: N/A
  • Offer Number/PIN: 0735588139
  • ISBN: 9780735588134
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  • Product Line: Aspen Publishers
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No lecture on technique or the substantive law prepares you for writing bar exam essays like reading and critiquing actual scored essays and performance tests. All of the sample essays and performance test in What NOT to Write have been written by bar candidates. Nothing, not even grammar or spelling, has been changed. Through step-by-step instruction, examples, and critiques, What NOT to Write gives you insight into and practice writing consistently strong bar exam answers in the allotted amount of time.

Authored by the founder and head instructor for LawTutors, a highly respected bar exam preparation program, What NOT to Write features:

  • Real essay answers to real bar exam questions
  • Real performance tests answers to real bar exam questions
  • Step-by-step guidance on how to successfully write the answer to a bar exam essay question
  • Opportunities to practice writing bar exam answers and performance tests
  • Exercises in critiquing sample essays — both good and bad ones
  • Self-critiquing exercise
  • The authors' critical analysis of both high-scoring and low-scoring essays
    • Critiques highlight similarities between all bad essays and all good essays
  • Exam-taking advice and suggestions
  • A flexible organization from top-scoring essays to lowest-scoring essays, which can, alternatively, be covered from back to front
  • Rules of law are signposted and explained where applicable

Introduction
The New York Bar Exam

  1. Question 1: Torts
  2. ;Question 2: Contracts/Corporations
  3. ;Question 3: Domestic Relations
  4. ;Question 4: Domestic Relations
  5. ;Question 5: Conracts/Corporations
  6. ;Question 6: Wills and Trusts
  7. ;Question 7: Criminal Law
  8. ;Question 8: Wills and Trusts
  9. ;Question 9: Contracts/Corporations
  10. ;Question 10: Wills
  11. ;Question 11: SOL/Torts/No Fault Insurance
  12. ;Question 12: Corporations/Ethics
  13. ;Question 13: Torts
  14. ;Question 14: Corporations
  15. ;Question 15: MPT - IN RE Lisa Peel
  16. ;Question 16: MPT - Acme Resources, Inc. v. Robert Black Hawk et al.
  17. ; ;Question 17: MPT - IN RE Lisa Peel

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