The Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast: Pass the Bar Exam with Less Stress
The Bar Exam Toolbox podcast helps bar takers pass with less stress and anxiety. Hosted by bar exam experts Lee Burgess and Alison Monahan, the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast covers a wide variety of topics, ranging from how to learn and memorize all the law you need to know for the bar exam, to how to write a passing essay, to how to get bar exam accommodations. If you're struggling with the bar exam, or work with students who are, tune in for practical strategies for bar exam success!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 326
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
126: Listen and Learn -- The Erie Doctrine
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're discussing an issue related to civil procedure -- the Erie Doctrine. We look at a step-by-step approach for answering questions in this area…
125: Best Practices for Studying for an Online Bar Exam
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about best practices for studying for an online bar exam, based on the two virtual exams that have been given so far.
In this episod…
124: Listen and Learn -- Duty of Loyalty (Corporations)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about the duty of loyalty owed by directors and officers of a corporation, and the main types of conduct they are prohi…
123: Listen and Learn -- First Amendment (Content-Neutral Restrictions)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing the First Amendment - in particular when, where, and how the government can reg…
122: Listen and Learn -- Easements (Real Property)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode of our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing easements, which is one of the more common Real Property topics on bar exam essay…
121: Listen and Learn -- Character Evidence
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about the Federal Rules of Evidence, and how to apply the rules of character evidence to both civil and criminal case hypos.
In this…
120: Listen and Learn -- Piercing the Corporate Veil
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review a substantive area of the law and apply that law to fact patterns. This …
119: Listen and Learn -- Anticipatory Repudiation (Contracts)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we're talking about anticipatory repudiation, which is an often-tested issue both on the MBE and…
118: More on Memorization for the Bar Exam
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're revisiting the best memorization techniques for long-term retention of material. There are many different ways to memorize, and you have to …
117: Listen and Learn -- Due Process and Equal Protection (Con Law)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this week's episode, as part of our "Listen and Learn" series, we're talking about an important area of Constitutional Law -- the Fourteenth Amendment…
116: California Bar Exam Results Are Out! What's Next If You Didn't Pass?
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Results from the latest California bar exam have just come out, and there's not a lot of time to prepare for the February 2021 exam if you failed. Is it …
115: Listen and Learn -- Dying Declaration vs. Excited Utterance
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In episode 101 we covered two hearsay exceptions, namely present sense impression and state of mind. Today, we'll discuss two more exceptions that are al…
114: Listen and Learn -- Non-Hearsay
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we cover a category of evidence called "non-hearsay," which is tested often on both the MBE and on Ev…
113: Lowering Stress While Studying for the Bar in COVID Times
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're looking at the telltale signs that you might be stressed out, the acute and chronic problems that stress causes, and some strategies for str…
112: Listen and Learn -- Property Crimes
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today's episode is part of our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review substantive areas of the law that you're likely to encounter on the bar exam. T…
111: Listen and Learn -- Introduction to Supplemental Jurisdiction (Civ Pro)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! This episode is part of our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review substantive areas of the law that you're likely to encounter on the bar exam. Toda…
110: Listen and Learn -- The Basics of Justiciability (Con Law)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an installment of our "Listen and Learn" series, we're tackling another Constitutional Law topic -- that is justiciability, or the issue of dec…
109: When to Start Studying for (Possibly) Retaking the Bar
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! This year, because of all the postponed bar exams you won't find out until quite late if you passed or not. When should you start to prepare for retaking…
108: Listen and Learn -- The Commerce Clause
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another installment in our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review substantive areas of the law that you're likely to encounter on the …
107: Listen and Learn -- Assumption of Risk (Torts)
Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we have another episode in our "Listen and Learn" series, where we review substantive areas of the law that you're likely to encounter on the bar …