California Bar Exam
Study Guide
Comprehensive coverage of all 13 essay subjects with California-specific rules, issue-spotting checklists, and exam-day strategies.
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Torts
Intentional torts, negligence, strict liability, defamation, privacy, and products liability.
✓Remedies
Legal damages, equitable remedies, restitution, and the interplay across all subjects.
✓Contracts
Common law contracts, UCC Article 2, formation, performance, breach, and third-party rights.
✓Business Associations
Agency, partnership, corporations, LLCs, and fiduciary duties.
✓Criminal Law
Homicide, theft crimes, inchoate offenses, accomplice liability, and defenses.
✓Criminal Procedure
Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights, exclusionary rule, and identification.
✓Evidence
Relevance, hearsay, character evidence, privileges, and California distinctions.
✓Constitutional Law
Federal powers, individual rights, equal protection, due process, and First Amendment.
✓Civil Procedure
Jurisdiction, pleading, discovery, summary judgment, and California procedural rules.
✓Real Property
Estates, future interests, easements, covenants, landlord-tenant, and recording acts.
✓Community Property
Characterization, management, division at death and divorce. California-specific subject.
✓Wills & Succession
Intestate succession, will execution, revocation, trusts interaction, and will substitutes.
✓Trusts
Trust creation, types, trustee duties, modification, termination, and charitable trusts.
✓Professional Responsibility
Duties to clients, confidentiality, conflicts, competence, and the California RPC.
✓Exam Approach & Strategy
IRAC method, time management, issue spotting, and essay writing techniques.