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- If your jurisdiction is not on the list, odds are that you’ll still be interested in our MBE Suite. Every U.S. jurisdiction except Louisiana and Puerto Rico administers the MBE as part of its bar exam.
- If you’re planning on practicing in Louisiana or Puerto Rico, you may still be interested in purchasing individual audio and written outlines for the subjects that you struggle with to supplement a course more catered to your jurisdiction’s exam.
Every U.S. jurisdiction except Louisiana and Puerto Rico administers the MBE as part of its bar exam.
- If you’re planning on practicing in Louisiana or Puerto Rico, you may still be interested in purchasing individual audio and written outlines for the subjects that you struggle with to supplement a course more catered to your jurisdiction’s exam.
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All the business associations-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered when it comes to related essay questions on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Agency and Partnership
- Agency relationships
- Power of agent to bind principal
- Vicarious liability for agent’s acts
- Fiduciary duties in an agency
- Partnership creation
- Power, liability of partners
- Rights of partners among themselves
- Termination
- Special rules
Corporations and LLCs
- Formation
- Pre-organization transactions
- Veil piercing
- Financing the organization
- Management and control
- Fiduciary duties
- Close corporations
- Changes in organizational structure
- Shareholder, member litigation
All the civil procedure-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Jurisdiction, Venue
- Subject matter jurisdiction
- Personal jurisdiction
- Service of process and notice
- Venue, forum non conveniens, and transfer
Pretrial Procedures
- Preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders
- Pleadings
- Rule 11 Sanctions
- Joinder
- Discovery
- Pretrial conference and order
Motions
- General motion requirements
- Pretrial motions
- Post-trial motions
Laws Applied
- State law in federal court
- Federal common law
Jury Trials
- Right to jury trial
- Selection and composition of juries
- Requests for and objections to jury instructions
Verdicts and Judgments
- Defaults and dismissals
- Jury verdicts
- Judicial findings and conclusions
- Effect of Judgments
Appealability, Review
- Final judgment rule
- Interlocutory review
- Standards of review
All the conflict of laws-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered when it comes to related essay questions on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
General Principles
- Domicile
Jurisdiction
- Types of personal jurisdiction
- Notice and opportunity to be heard
- Other jurisdictional limits
Choice of Law
- Basic concepts
- Choice-of-law theories
- Most significant interests test
- Governmental interest analysis
- Traditional approach
- Defenses against application of foreign law
- Constitutional limitations
- Federal-state conflicts
Recognition and Enforcement
- Full faith and credit
- Claim and issue preclusion
- Defenses to recognition or enforcement
- Family law judgments
All the constitutional law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Individual Rights
- Nature and protection of rights
- State action
- Due Process
- Equal protection
- First Amendment
- Takings
- Other protections
Separation of Powers
- Powers of Congress
- President’s powers
- Federal interbranch relationships
Judicial Review
- Organization and relationship of state and federal courts
- Jurisdiction
- Judicial review in operation
Relation of Nation and States
- Intergovernmental immunities
- Federalism-based limits on state authority
All the contracts law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Formation
- Mutual assent
- Consideration
Performance, Breach
- Breach
- Anticipatory repudiation
- Rescission
- Non-occurrence of a condition
- Impracticability or frustration of purpose
Defenses to Enforceability
- Incapacity
- Duress
- Undue influence
- Misrepresentation and nondisclosure
- Mistake
- Misunderstanding
- Public policy violations
- Statute of frauds
Remedies
- General damages
- Special damages
- Incidental damages
- Liquidated damages
- Restitution
- Other damages considerations
- Equitable remedies
- Statutory remedies
Parol Evidence, Interpretation
- Parol Evidence Rule
- Impact on interpretation
Third Parties
- Beneficiaries
- Assignment and delegation
All the criminal law and procedure-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Constitutional Protections
- Searches and seizures
- Confessions
- Privilege against self-incrimination
- Identification procedures
- Right to counsel at trial
- Fair trial
- Guilty pleas
- Double jeopardy
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- Burdens of proof
- Appeal and error
General Principles
- Voluntary acts
- State of mind
- Responsibility
- Causation
- Justification and excuse
- Jurisdiction
Homicide
- Murder
- Manslaughter
Other Crimes
- Property-related crimes
- People-harming crimes
Inchoate Crimes, Parties
- Inchoate (or incomplete) crimes
- Parties (or accomplices) to crime
All the evidence law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Relevance, Reasons for Excluding
- Probative value
- Authentication
- Expert testimony
- Demonstrative and experimental evidence
- Character and related concepts
Presentation of Evidence
- Introduction of evidence
- Presumptions
- Mode and order of presentation
- Impeachment
Hearsay Admissibility
- Defining hearsay
- Exceptions
- Strong exceptions
- Weak exceptions
- Less tested exceptions
- Right to confront witnesses
Privileges, Policy Exclusions
- Privileges
- Policy Exclusions
Writings, Recordings, Photos
- Original records
- Summaries
- Completeness rule
All the family law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered when it comes to related essay questions on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Getting married
- Pre-marriage controversies
- Who can marry
- Procedural requirements
- State-of-mind requirements
- Common law marriage
- Premarital contracts (or prenups)
Being married
- Rights and duties
- Family privacy
- Marital interference
Ending Marriage
- General rules
- Divorce
- Annulment
- Dissolution
- Separation
- Child support
- Alimony determination
- Property division
- Jurisdiction
- Enforcing decrees
- Modifying decrees
Child custody
- Standard for decision
- Joint custody
- Visitation
- Relocation
- Procedural issues
- Enforcement
- Modification
Unmarried cohabitants
- Rights of cohabitants
- Unmarried parents and their children
Parent, child, and state
- Legal disabilities of childhood
- Duty to support
- Intra-family immunities
- Loss of consortium
- Parental rights and limitations
- Custody disputes between parents and third parties
Adoption
- Jurisdiction
- Agency versus independent placements
- Parental consent
Alternatives to adoption
- Artificial insemination by donor
- Surrogacy, in vitro fertilization, and embryo transplantation
All the subjects covered on the MPRE and most of the topics covered in typical professional responsibility law school classes.
Conflicts
- General rules
- Screening
- Third-party compensation and influence
- Acquiring an interest in litigation
Client-Lawyer Relationship
- Formation
- Representation scope, objective, and means
- Decision-making authority—actual and apparent
- Counsel and assistance within the bounds of the law
- Termination of the client-lawyer relationship
- Client-lawyer contracts
- Client communications
- Fees
Litigation, Advocacy
- Expediting justice
- Fairness to opposing party and counsel
- Impartiality and tribunal decorum
- Trial publicity
- Lawyer as witness
Client Confidentiality
- Attorney-client privilege and work-product protection
- Confidentiality—general rule
- Expressly or implicitly authorized disclosures
- Exceptions to confidentiality
Regulating the Profession
- Powers that regulate
- Reporting attorney misconduct
- Unauthorized practice
- Multijurisdictional practice
- Nonlawyer fee division
- Forms of practice
Competence, Legal Malpractice, Liability
- Competence, diligence
- Civil liability
- Limiting malpractice liability
- Malpractice insurance
Communications about Legal Services
- Advertising, other public communications
- Solicitation—direct contact with prospective clients
- Group legal services
- Referrals
- Practice areas, specialization
Different Lawyer Roles
- Advisor, evaluator, negotiator, third-party neutral
- Nonadjudicative appearances
- Organizational clients
- Prosecutors
Safekeeping Property
- Client trust accounts, safekeeping assets
- Disputed claims
Communications with Non-Clients
- Truthfulness
- Respect third-party rights
Duties to Public
- Voluntary pro bono
- Accepting appointments
- Legal services organizations
- Avoid impropriety
Judicial Conduct
- Performing judicial duties
- Administrative Appointments
- Ex parte communications
- Disqualification
- Extrajudicial activities
All the torts law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Negligence
- Introduction
- Duty
- Breaching the standard of care
- Actual cause
- Proximate cause
- Damages
- Liability based upon other people or things
- Defenses
Intentional Torts
- Introduction
- Torts that harm people
- Torts that harm property
- Defenses
Strict Liability, Product Liability
- Strict liability
- Product liability
Additional Torts
- Nuisance
- Defamation and invasion of privacy
- Misrepresentation
- Interference with business relations
All the property law-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered for the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) and the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Ownership
- Present and future interest
- Special rules affecting different ownership types
- Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP)
- Cotenancy
- Landlord-tenant law
- Conflicts of law
Mortgages
- Types of security devices
- Security relationships
- Transfers
- Mortgage discharge
Titles
- Adverse possession
- Transfer by deed
- Transfer at death
- Title assurance systems
- Special problems
Property Rights
- Easements, profits, and licenses
- Fixtures
- Zoning
- Restrictive covenants
- Other rights
Real Estate Contracts
- Brokerages
- Contract creation and construction
- Marketable title
- Equitable conversion
- Options and rights of first refusal
- Fitness and suitability
- Merger
All the wills, trusts, and estates-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered when it comes to related essay questions on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Intestate succession
- Share of surviving spouse
- Share of children and others
- Share of ancestors and collaterals
- Advancements
- Simultaneous death
Wills
- Execution requirements
- Integration
- Incorporation
- Facts of independent significance
- Codicils
- Revocation
- Revival
- Contractual wills
- Construction problems
- Will contests
- Nonprobate Transfers
- Powers and duties of personal representative
Family protection
- Omitted spouse
- Elective share
- Pretermitted children
Living wills, durable health care powers
- Execution requirements
- Revocation
- Authority of agent
Trusts
- Classification
- Creation
- Types of trusts
- Alienability of interests
- Protective trusts
- Trustee powers and duties
Future interests
- Common types of interests
- Appointment powers
- Acceleration of future interests
- Rule Against Perpetuities (RAP)
Construction Problems
- Children and issue
- Death without issue
- Survivorship problems
- Gifts to classes
- Worthier Title
- Gifts by implication
All the secured transactions-related subjects tested on the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE). That means they have you covered when it comes to related essay questions on the Multistate Essay Exam (MEE). Plus, they cover most of the topics discussed in related law school classes.
Collateral Basics
- Classes of goods
- After-acquired property
- Future advances
- PMSI and consignments
- Title irrelevant
- Debtor flexibility
- Duties of possession
- Accessions versus commingled goods
Attachment and Perfection
- Attachment
- Perfection
- Financing statement amendments
- Request for accounting
Collateral Sold by the Debtor
- Buyers normally take subject to perfected interests
- Proceeds
- Shelter Rule
- Assignment
Priority
- Priority based on security interest type
- Priority based on timing
- Special priority rules
- Subordination
Enforcement, Termination
- Repossession
- Foreclosure sales
- Account debtors
- Termination
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