Washington Practice

This three-credit, elective course is designed to provide an intensive experience with the essay-type bar examination questions utilized on the Washington bar examination and to focus on the subjects and issues most frequently tested on the Washington bar examination. The course will emphasize techniques for writing high-scoring answers to bar exam questions as distinguished from the type of exam question typically encountered in law school. The course will emphasize Property, Civil and Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Torts, and Contracts. It will also highlight distinctive features of Washington law that bar examiners will expect applicants to be familiar with. The course will address substantive law only to the extent necessary to prepare students to write answers to the test questions. The course is designed to be of primary value to students intending to take the Washington bar examination, but will (to a lesser extent) benefit students taking other bar examinations featuring similar essay-type questions. Instead of taking a final exam at the end of the course, students will answer a bar-exam question following each course subject segment. This is a graded course as determined by aggregating the performance on all of the individual exam questions. This course is not subject to the lower end of the mandatory mean grade point average range for an upperclass course. This course is not intended as a substitute for the commercial bar reviews available for bar examination preparation in Washington and other states.