Barwinners
Encyclopedia
Barwinners is a company in the United States
that offers a bar exam preparation course. The program is a comprehensive seven-week course covers the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) — torts, contracts, real property
, evidence
, criminal law
, and constitutional law
— along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state, specializing in the California Bar Examination, repeat bar exam takers.
started a bar prep course in 1983 and called the "Karney Writing Course." She began the company to supplement her income while trying the incest survivor cases but it has developed into her main source of income when she stopped practicing in order to educate attorneys and the public about their rights under SB 108.
Over the years, the company name changed to Barwinners and the course specializes in helping repeat takers pass the exam, particularly for the California Bar Examination.
. Other faculty includes an on-staff specialist who offers help with stress management techniques, testing anxiety, and time management skills. The course offers group and individual tutoring.
Barwinners also provides bar preparation for the California First Year Law Students’ Examination, also known as the Baby Bar.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
that offers a bar exam preparation course. The program is a comprehensive seven-week course covers the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) — torts, contracts, real property
Real property
In English Common Law, real property, real estate, realty, or immovable property is any subset of land that has been legally defined and the improvements to it made by human efforts: any buildings, machinery, wells, dams, ponds, mines, canals, roads, various property rights, and so forth...
, evidence
Evidence
Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either presumed to be true, or were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth...
, criminal law
Criminal law
Criminal law, is the body of law that relates to crime. It might be defined as the body of rules that defines conduct that is not allowed because it is held to threaten, harm or endanger the safety and welfare of people, and that sets out the punishment to be imposed on people who do not obey...
, and constitutional law
Constitutional law
Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....
— along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state, specializing in the California Bar Examination, repeat bar exam takers.
History
Shari KarneyShari Karney
Shari Karney is an American attorney, incest-survivor activist, and bar exam review company owner.-Early life and education:...
started a bar prep course in 1983 and called the "Karney Writing Course." She began the company to supplement her income while trying the incest survivor cases but it has developed into her main source of income when she stopped practicing in order to educate attorneys and the public about their rights under SB 108.
Over the years, the company name changed to Barwinners and the course specializes in helping repeat takers pass the exam, particularly for the California Bar Examination.
Course
Barwinners focuses on preparation courses for the California Bar Exam but has tutored students for bar exams in other states including New York, Nevada, Washington. The California course offers lectures in person in Santa Monica, CA and remotely by DVD or online. The lectures are taught by faculty from local ABA-accredited law schools and by Shari KarneyShari Karney
Shari Karney is an American attorney, incest-survivor activist, and bar exam review company owner.-Early life and education:...
. Other faculty includes an on-staff specialist who offers help with stress management techniques, testing anxiety, and time management skills. The course offers group and individual tutoring.
Barwinners also provides bar preparation for the California First Year Law Students’ Examination, also known as the Baby Bar.