Issue Identification!

Need some help on the essays on the Cal Bar Exam?  How do you improve on the essays?

Quality analysis is not enough.  Why?  If you can't spot issues, how can you possibly write up quality analysis?

Substantive law isn't enough either.  Why?  If you can't spot issues, how can you worry about if you know enough law?

Some tutors and even former graders will grade essays for you and will help you extensively on improving your analysis.  However, unless they attempt to help you spot issues better, the help you're getting is quite incomplete.

Complicating the problem is law school professors nationwide.  If you ask them to help you improve your issue-spotting, they'll say to look at enough essays and you're fine.  OK, you say, book's open.  I'm looking!  I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking! 

The advice is too broad.  Nobody's fault, nobody's trying to give you bad advice.  After all, it's better to review essays than to avoid them, right?

HOWEVER, there's a better way.  The Essay Review method provides a more systematic model.  It's worked well for over a decade for law students and bar applicants alike.  Check out The Trigger List in the store today!

If you're looking for 1-on-1 tutoring, I have four spots left.  Evidently I'm rare in that I provide help with issue-spotting, rules, memorization, and analysis.  Are you getting that help with your tutor?  Ask your prospective tutor if they cover all of this!