Endnotes

• Author: Sara J. Berman
• Profession: Concord's Assistant Dean of Bar Support Programs and is also the Assistant Dean of Academic Support and Bar Support at Whittier Law School in Costa Mesa, California
• Pages: 121-123

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1. Keith A. Kaufman, V. Holland LaSalle-Ricci, Carol R. Glass & Diane B.

Arnko, Passing the Bar Exam: Psychological, Educational, and Demographic Pre-

dictors of Success, 57 J. L E. 20, 218 (2007).

2. http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/academic_support/; owner-asp-I@chicago

kent.kentlaw.edu.

3. For an extremely helpful resource on assessment that uses performance testing

as an illustrative springboard for program assessment, see A. Susnir Funk and

K.M. Mauerman, Startng from the Top: Using a Capstone Course to Begin Program

Assessment in Legal Education, 37 O. C U. L. R. 3 (2012).

4. Jane Yakowitz, Marooned: An Empirical Investigation of Law School Graduates

Who Fail the Bar Exam, 60 J. L E. 1 (August2010).

5. Derek Alphran, Tanya Washington & Vincent Eagan,Yes We Can, Pass the Bar.

University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law Bar Passage

Initiatives and Bar Pass Rates—From the Titanic to the Queen Mary,14U.D.C. L.

R. 9(2011) at 40: “Once students are admitted, there is an obligation to help

them prepare for and pass the bar exam. As the ABA has since recognized, law

school bar preparation and academic support programs do help students fulll

that mandate.”

6. AALS Sur vey of Law Schools on Programs and Courses Designed to Enhance Bar

Examination Performance, 52 J. L E. 453, 464–65 (2002).

7. See B Z. T, F L S 32 (2012), discussing hierar-

chies of law professors.

8. What might be shocking to my dear friend Professor Arthur Miller, my civil

procedure professor (a former student of Miller’s) told our class he was skipping

Erie. He said we would need to learn it for the bar exam but that we just did not

have time to adequately cover it in class. is was honest, and helpful. Professors

cannot cover everything, nor should we. But when we skip something that is

heavily tested on the bar exam we can do our students a great favor by making

that explicit so they know they will have to master the area on their own.

9. See Kaufman, LaSalle-Ricci, Glass & Arnko, supra note 1, citing earlier stud-

ies such as Stephen P. Klein & Roger Bolus,e Size and Source of Dierences in

Bar Exam Passing Rates Among Racial and Ethnic Groups, 66 B E

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