Re: NWCU Law
Posted by Sean Gaynor on 9/28/08

I'm glad (sorry) to hear that you and I shared a similar
experience. How long until one of these correspondence schools
makes a deal with Fleming's to provide a Baby Bar Review
course. From what I gather, most of those in-house reviews that
these schools do is of mediocre quality at best. I'd negotiate
a better rate with Fleming's, and then pass the savings of not
having to pay attorneys to give the reviews onto the
students...something like Taft has done in more recent years,
but make it more of a requirement than an option.

Sean


On 9/28/08, steve wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> I attended Taft back in 1997 and took Baby Bar only once in
> 1998. I didn’t learn about Fleming’s until one month before
> the Baby Bar. I passed the essays but failed the multiple
> choice portion. I simply did not have time to practice more
> MC questions. I think I only did about 100 questions in each
> subject.
>
>
> On 9/28/08, Sean Gaynor wrote:
>> Here is a little about my experience there back in '97-'98.
>> (Note: this was before the internet became such a valuable
>> resource to law students)
>>
>> I past the first year school exams, but came up just short
>> on the Baby Bar Exam. Discouraged, I did not bother to re-
>> take the exam, nor return to NWCU.
>>
>> The NWCU program has always been cost-effective, and the
>> staff and attorneys were friendly enough. However, I felt
>> afterwards that they had not provided enough guidance, and
>> that the materials they provided were poorly organized and
>> overwhelming in quantity. Most importantly, they did not
>> tell me precisely what I should be spending my scarce time
>> studying.
>>
>> If I knew then what I know now. I have no doubt that I
>> would have succeeded the first time. The good news is will
>> the CBE's liberal rules, I am still eligible to sit for the
>> Baby Bar Exam. So, I am going to take Fleming's advice and
>> concentrate primarily on memorizing and applying the rules
>> of law. Most, importantly I am going to work on my
>> analytical writing skills through making review outlines and
>> doing many, many practice exam questions. Read Fleming's
>> article, "The Law School Process" at:
>>
>> http://www.clsj1994.com
>>
>> Once I pass the Baby Bar, I'll be able to transfer to
>> another correspondence school, probably West Coast (which
>> has had a couple of the most high-profile, recent
>> correspondence school graduates--one who is a successful DC
>> lawyer, and another who is suing the
>> Massachusetts/Connecticutt bars to allow correspondence
>> graduates to sit for the bar exam in those states.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On 6/10/08, C wrote:
>>> Anyone attended or heard anything...??
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance

Posts on this thread, including this one

• NWCU Law, 6/10/08, by C.
• Re: NWCU Law, 7/10/08, by N.
• Re: NWCU Law, 8/13/08, by Patrick.
• Re: NWCU Law, 8/17/08, by Ryan.
• Re: NWCU Law, 8/19/08, by Patrick.
• Re: NWCU Law, 8/31/08, by C.
• Re: NWCU Law, 8/31/08, by Ryan.
• Re: NWCU Law, 9/28/08, by Sean Gaynor.
• Re: NWCU Law, 9/28/08, by steve.
• Re: NWCU Law, 9/28/08, by Sean Gaynor.
• Re: NWCU Law, 11/02/08, by Dolphin.