The bar
We have not built a bar course
Anywhere. After that there is one exam, it tests seven lawyering skills rather than a subject list, and it is not the one your mentors sat. Some of you already have no choice about which one you take.
Find out which exam you will sitFebruary 2028 is the final legacy sitting anywhere.
Fewer subjects does not mean less work. It means the work moved.
The old exam rewarded holding an enormous amount of doctrine in your head for eight weeks. The new one narrows the list, then asks you to use what is in front of you.
Legal research, legal writing, issue spotting and analysis, investigation and evaluation, client counselling and advising, negotiation and dispute resolution, and client relationship and management.
Conflict of Laws, Family Law, Trusts and Estates, and Secured Transactions are no longer required as foundational knowledge. Family Law returns from July 2028. Material can still turn up inside performance tasks.
These are skills built across three years, not eight weeks in a summer. What you do in first year now matters more to bar passage than it used to.
One administration has happened. The second wave has not sat. Passing scores in several jurisdictions are still unset. Anyone selling certainty about this exam right now does not have it.
Two exams run alongside each other until February 2028. After that there is one.
Not at once, and not on the same date. Step through it and watch the legacy exam empty out.
Two questions decide which exam you sit. Most students have never been asked either one.
Your jurisdiction and the year you finish. That is all it takes, and for some of you there is a real choice in there worth thinking about now rather than in third year.
Why there is nothing to buy here
Building a bar course today would mean guessing at what the exam rewards, publishing the guess confidently, and charging for it during the highest stakes eight weeks of somebody's professional life.
We would rather build the three years in front of it properly, watch what the exam actually does, and turn up with something that works. When there is a date, this page will carry the date instead of a promise.
Bar readiness gets built in first year, in how you learn to read a problem and write an answer somebody can act on. That part exists now.