Master Essay: Real Property

Real Property is an intimidating subject, but it is not the hardest subject on the bar examination. I suggest you spend 10-20 minutes outlining your answer and the rest of the hour writing. When you review each of your answers, keep track of your mistakes. Issue spotting is an art, and it takes practice. The good news is that the key issues in every subject are tested in fairly common ways.

When you make a legal error, it is useful to note it on the Micro Review outline. Keep in mind that annotating an outline with your legal errors is extremely useful. It is “active learning” that reinforces new knowledge. The idea is to waste as little time as possible on reviewing stuff you don’t know. Instead, you want to learn new material and place it in the proper context.

Here are the fact patterns and issue outlines – and one model answer – for our Master Essay Method Real Property Seminar.

Here is the video seminar with the essay approach and a discussion of each of the fact patterns. Remember that if you click on the playlist button in the upper-left corner you can skip around within the seminar.

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Here is a list of the videos that make up the seminar:

          1. Property Approach
          2. Property, July 2008
          3. Property, July 2007
          4. Property, February 2007
          5. Property, February 2006
          6. Property, February 2005
          7. Property, February 2004
          8. Property, July 2002
          9. Property, July 2000
          10. Property, July 1999
          11. Property, February 1997
          12. Property, February 1991
          13. Property, February 1989
          14. Property, February 1980

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