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— ANNOTATIONS —
Mtrch/April 1988
Which Bar Review?
by Carolyn Espeseth
Becoming an attorney can be
compared to an Olympic event
with four major hurdles. First, the
L-SAT, then admission to law
school, followed by graduation
from law school, and lastly, pass-
ing THE BAR.
THE BAR (a phrase spoken by
law students as if it were in caps),
merely one more examination, is
governed by rules promulated by
the Texas Supreme Court. Offered
in February and July, the exam
lasts for 2Vi days and consists of
two parts. Part I, also known as
the Multistate, covers six subjects,
i.e. Constitutional Law, Contracts,
Criminal Law, Evidence, Real
Property, and Torts. Part I con-
stist of 200 multiple choice ques-
tions taken in two three hour
sessions.
Day 2, the second part, an essay
exam, covers six Texas subjects,
i.e. Oil and Gas, the Uniform
Commercial Code, Business Associa-
tions (Agency and Partnership,
Corporations),Family Law, Trusts
and Will Administration. Part II
or Day Three covers Civil Proce-
dure (Federal and State), Criminal
Procedure and Evidence in a short
answer format consisting of 75-80
short hypos and questions.
After deciding when to take
THE BAR, before or after gradua-
tion, the question becomes how
to prepare to sit for the bar.
Should you take a review course
and if so, which bar review course
is best?
The front runner in the field
appears to be BAR/BRI, a full
service Bar review which covers
all three Bar days. BAR/BRI is
offered as a six week course, three
hours per class with 29 classes. It
encompasses multistate summar-
ies, Texas summaries, essay and
multistate questions. It begins
about eight weeks before THE
BAR with live presentations. The
current tuition is $745.00 plus a
$45.00 book deposit until March
30th.
Supplementing the basic course,
BAR/BRI offers two other courses
The HBJ is a 3-day video presen-
tation, concentrating on various
areas with more past bar ques-
tions. The cost is $125.00 for die
person enrolled in die core course.
BAR/BRI Also offers die Har-
brace, Part II Workshop, a 2-day
live workshop concentrating on
the Day Three test. This course is
taught by STCL Professors Peter
Lewis and Byron Davis. The full
tuition is $225.00 and $145.00
for students enrolled in BAR/BRI.
The next contender to cover all
three days of THE BAR is the
Finklestein Texas Bar Review,
which has its office in Austin.
Finklestein offers its 26 night
course ending 2 weeks before
THE BAR. The course employs
lectures, past exam questions, and
outlines at a tuition of $645.00 as
of November 1, 1987.
Apart from THE BAR exam, a
candidate for the Texas Bar must
also pass the MPRE (Multistate
Profesional Responsibility), an
objective test of 50 questions
offered in March, November and
August. Both BAR/BRI and Fin-
kelstein offer MPRE review
STCL Services
PMBR also offers a supplemen-
tal 3-day course after the BAR/-
BRI review and two weeks before
THE BAR. It concentrates on the
Multistate exam, with fact pattern
analysis and substantive law review
along with test taking strategies,
presented by qualified instructors.
The enrollment fee is $395.00 or
$195.00 if enrolled in the Early
Bird course.
In conclusion, it should be
noted that all companies offering
review courses have prices that
change which may or may not
include refundable charges for
book deposits. They, also, offer
various discounts. With the
exception of Finklestein, all com-
panies have local offices or local
representatives with whom prices
and services can be discussed.
A variety of services are avail-
able to students, faculty and staff
through STCL's Audio-Visual
Department. Audio and video
productions, videotape library
access and tape playback services
are only a part of AV's offering.
"Most of our work is for the
classroom," said Kathy Gres ham,
Director of Audio-Visual Services
in a recent interview. "We partic-
ularly service the Advocacy
classes and competitions. Students
are taped during their different
practices, and then they come in
to our office to watch the tapes
and critique themselves.
Gresham pointed out that the
department also facilitates outside
users of the STCL including the
State Bar and the Houston Bar
Associations. Likewise, expansion
is being made into video enhance-
ment of computer instruction for
Legal Research and Writing
classes, as well as taping faculty
and student projects for various
classes.
"We are involved in doing spe-
cific projects for instructors,"
Gresham noted. "These projects
are increasingly requiring a much
more advanced form of produc-
tion, and we are very excited
about working with the professors
Southwest Premiere/March 5-April 9
Directed by
Ted Swirtdley
CONTINENTAL
Charge Tickets
test
Standard of
Living
by Keith Beddin
STAGES
Repertory Theatre
Ted Swindle)', Artistic Director
Tickets S6-S15 3201 Allen Pkwy.
S T A G E
on videos designated for out-of-
school publication. All in all, I
think our project list has just
about tripled from where we
started two years ago."
In addition to Gresham, the
Audio-Visual Department is
staffed by Casey Massey, a full-
time AV technician, and part-time
work study employees. "By spreading
our times out, we make our office
hours meet the time needs of stu-
dents," Gresham said. Office
hours are Monday - Thursday
from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and
Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Arrangements can be made
in advance to expand those hours
or to service week-end needs.
Gresham stressed the need for
students to call ahead to schedule
appointments for viewing tapes or
production work. The phone
number for the office is 659-
8040, extension 333. "A phone
call from the student is all it will
take to reserve the equipment and
personnel required to meet his/-
her needs. There is a possibility
that the equipment might be
checked out to another student or
our personnel might be in class-
room taping if people don't
reserve in advance. We will do
just about anything we can to
meet the AV needs of the stu-
dents," Gresham added.
This includes making copies of
tapes for STCL students. If stu-
dents supply their own videotape,
the AV Department will copy any
tape in the AV inventory for free,
with the exception of a few copy-
righted videos. A $10 service
charge is assessed if the students
wish to use an AV supplied tape.
A list of die videotape inventory is
available in the AV office.
Other services include camera
work, video playback, audio
cassette copying, public address
systems, overhead transparencies,
video projections in the auditori-
ums, closed circuit programming
between auditoriums and class-
rooms, and help with various
forms of production work.
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Much More Than Movies
GRAVITS
continued from page 1
What Did It Prove?
One is tempted to regard it all as amedia event, stage business, a bit of
Broadway or West end Sheik for the plebes in the pit. Confirmation of
this might be the reaction of Senate majority leader Robert Byrd, Demo-
crat of West Virginia. Huffing and puffing his way back to Andrews Air
Force Base from a seven-day tour of five European capitals—what's
wrong with St. Thomas?—he rendered the somber judgment that such
incidents "feed upon and contribute to the kind of skepticism Europeans
and Americans have about Soviet leadership."
But there was more to it than entertainment. Consider: customary
international law evolves by a kind of Hegelian dialectic—thesis, antithe-
sis and synthesis. There is an ongoing process of accommodation, of
reciprocal tolerance and mutual restraint. Customary law is created by
practice. The United States engages in this sort of probing at the peripher-
ies some 30 to 40 times a year, almost always without incident. Dep't
State Bull. May 1986, at 79. In this case both United States and die
Soviet Union acted with finely calibrated restraint. The United States
because its authority was ambiguous at best. And the Soviet Union
because, as a major world naval power, its national security interests
could actually coincide with some aspects of the American claim. By that
I mean this: if Soviet warships in Tom Clancy's best seller had been
permitted to penetrate die three-mile U.S. territorial sea off Norfolk
Naval Base in Virginia, the hunt for Red October might well have had a
different outcome. How would Senator Byrd like that?
Stages Announces
Highest Standard
of Living
With the lunacy of "I Love Lucy"
and the chill of 1984, playwright
Keith Reddin has created a comic
nightmare in HIGHEST STAN-
DARD OF LIVING. Given recent
American-Soviet summits and on-
going news headlines of the CIA,
FBI, KGB and "glasnost," Stages
Repertory Theatre's presentation
of HIGHEST STANDARD OF
LIVING is particularly timely. The
play continues through April 9,
1988.
HIGHEST STANDARD OF
LIVING is a ferociously funny spy
thriller about a young American
graduate student who gets caught
up in a web of intrigue, first as a
visitor to the Soviet Union and
then on his return to what he
expects to be the safety and free-
dom of the United States. He inno-
cently finds himself trapped in a
surreal world in which he experien-
ces the worst both countries have
to offer. Ultimately, for the audi-
ence, the play allows "us against
them" issues to surface: individual
trust, freedom, oppression.
Performances of HIGHEST STAN-
DARD OF LIVING are Thursdays
through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and
Sundays at 5:00 p.m. Ticket prices
are $12.00 on Thursdays and Sim-
days, and $15.00 on Fridays and
Saturdays. Student rush at $5.00 is
available fifteen minutes before
curtain; groups and senior citizen
receive discounts. Half price "Day-
lights Savings Tickets" are sold at
Stages between 11:00 a.m. and
1:00 p.m. on the day of the perfor-
mance if tickets are still available.
Tickets can be purchased at the
Stages Box Office, all Rainbow
Ticketmaster outlets, and at Show-
Tix.
Stages is located at 3201 Allen
Parkway, one block west of Waugh
Drive; the entrance to the theatre is
on Rosine Street. Free, lighted
parking is available directly behind
the theatre. For reservations and
information, please call Stages at
52-STAGE (527-8243).
VOTE
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