Registration Guide 2012-2013

Bar Preparation Courses

As an additional aid to you in your bar examination preparation, Suffolk Law School offers to third year day and fourth year evening students, a bar examination preparation program offered in the spring and fall. This course is not a substitute for a commercial bar review course. Indeed, we fully expect that virtually all of you will take a bar review course prior to the bar examination. Suffolk University Law School does not endorse any bar review course and you should not consider our participation in this program as an endorsement of any specific bar review course. Our bar examination preparation program is designed to provide extra assistance to our students. Who Should Take the Fall 2012 Program? The following students should consider enrolling in the fall 2012 program: 1. Students who intend to sit for the February 2013 bar examination, whether in Massachusetts or in another state. For those students who intend to take the Massachusetts bar, Suffolk will make available tapes of lectures (and accompanying materials) recorded in May 2012 on both Massachusetts Civil Procedure and essay writing on the Massachusetts bar exam.

2. Students who intend to sit for the July 2013 bar examination in a state other than Massachusetts (in order to obtain a full semester’s worth of preparation for the MBE portion of the examination in the other state).

3. Students who intend to sit for the July 2013 bar examination in any state and who presently have a low cumulative grade point average should enroll in the fall 2012 course to have additional opportunities to learn the subject matter tested on the MBE and the skills needed to answer multiple choice questions. If these students intend to take the July 2013 Massachusetts bar examination, they should also enroll in either of the courses to be offered during the spring 2013 in order to prepare for the Massachusetts essay examination.