Tag: Florida Bar Exam

Should I Retake the Bar Exam?

Encouragement for Bar Exam Repeaters Should I re-take the Bar Exam? Failing the bar exam can be a devastating experience. It can feel like the halting of one’s legal career, a roadblock to fulfilling one’s hopes, goals, and dreams. Humiliation, embarrassment, discouragement, and self-doubt can too easily creep in and attempt to overtake one’s...

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FL Professional Responsibility

Florida Rules of Professional Responsibility — Concise Notes Florida Bar Exam test-takers are responsible for knowing the black letter law for Florida’s Rules of Professional Conduct (Chapter 4) and Florida’s Rules Regulating Trust Accounts (Chapter 5). Indeed, practicing Florida attorneys are definitely responsible for knowing these Rules. Too often, practicing attorneys become arrogant (or maybe...

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FL Homestead Exemptions

Florida Homestead Exemptions The Florida Constitution, Article X, Section 4, controls Florida’s Homestead Exemption Laws. The following information is quoted from Article X, Section 4. To view an example of how Florida Homestead Exemption Laws have been tested on the Florida Bar Exam, see the… SECTION 4. Homestead; exemptions.— (a) There shall be exempt from forced sale...

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2017 MBE Real Property Changes

Beginning February 2017, there will be changes to the MBE Real Property questions. The NCBE recently announced that the 2017 MBE Real Property “topics will be slightly reordered and revised,” and will include some “minor modifications”. The new “slightly reordered and revised” topics will include: 1. Conflicts of law (I.D.4.); 2. Property owners’ associations and...

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