Florida Bar Exam Essay Prep: Strategies and Study Material

Book Synopsis: Florida Bar Exam Essay Prep: Strategies and Study Material helps students cultivate the legal writing skills necessary to craft effective responses to the essay portion of the Florida Bar Exam. The text covers essential rules for a variety of subjects and equips students with tools and strategies for studying, memorizing, and retaining large amounts of information. The Florida Board of Bar Examiners identifies a long list of subject areas from which they create the questions on the Florida Bar Exam. This books focuses on the subject areas that have been tested more frequently than others and emphasizes rules specific to Florida. Opening chapters provide an overview of the Florida Bar Exam, basic skills for writing a bar essay, and proven study strategies. Additional chapters address intentional torts, negligence, strict liability and product liability, Florida constitutional law, contracts, real property, landlord-tenant law, family law, trusts, and professional responsibility. End-of-chapter checklists, sample essay questions, and introductions reinforce key learnings. Florida Bar Exam Essay Prep is an essential resource for law students preparing for the bar or attorneys licensed in other states who wish to practice in Florida.

Linda S. Anderson is a professor of law within the Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, where she teaches courses in legal research and writing, non-litigation drafting, communication and leadership skills, Florida law, and reproductive technology and the law. She earned her Juris Doctor at the Franklin Pierce Law Center (now UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law). In addition to more than 20 years of law teaching experience, she has worked as a legal professional, serving as an associate attorney, clerk of court, and assistant director/assistant contract officer in various private practice, court, and medical settings.