Essay Success Express is a self-teaching, standalone workbook designed to aid in preparation for the essay portion of the Massachusetts Bar Exam. Essay Success Express offers a thorough top-to-bottom approach, focusing on issue-spotting and writing specific responses for each issue in a fact pattern, avoiding external topics or issues, and writing simply and quickly to gain the most points on each essay question. This workbook concentrates on a black-letter law approach to both MBE topics and to Massachusetts-specific essay subjects. This workbook can be used as a stand-alone home-study tool, integrated into a law school's bar curriculum, or in conjunction with a bar review course.
A fresh approach to deciphering Massachusetts essays, this easy-to-use workbook:
 Focuses practice time on the topics the state Bar Examiners test and re-test.
Outlines how to recognize and write a succinct essay answer through organization of concept clusters, rules, and definitions.
Provides the user maximum flexibility to arrange his/her study schedule and maximize learning.
Offers breakdowns of released Massachusetts Bar Exam essays.
Guides users through the process of writing issue-rich essays.
Supplies simple and effective techniques for identifying parties, key facts, and applying the appropriate rule.
Provides complete coverage of the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) subjects: Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Evidence, Real Property, and Torts; as well as the Massachusetts-specific subjects: 93A, Agency, Business Associations, Domestic Relations, Federal Jurisdiction, Massachusetts Civil Procedure, Guardianship, Landlord-Tenant, Professional Responsibility, Wills and Trusts, UCC Articles 3, 4, and 9.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction.
II. The Essay Success Express (ESE) Method.
III. Flash Practice.
IV. ESE Extras.
V. The Big Six – MBE Subjects.
a. Constitutional Law.
b. Contacts.
c. Criminal Law & Procedure.
d. Evidence.
e. Real Property.
f. Torts. |
