Programs

After 20 years of designing and implementing bar review and law school study courses which were meant to be taken by dozens, hundreds, or even thousands at a time, Mr. Josephson takes a completely different, more flexible approach in his one-on-one tutoring.  While large bar review courses and even smaller "specialty programs" try to squeeze each one of their students into "their" systems, Mr. Josephson tailors specific, highly-individualized programs for each individual that he tutors.

It's not that Mr. Josephson has stopped believing in structured programs.  Indeed, for the most part, and for most people, such courses are the most efficient and cost-effective methods of getting one through the process.  However, Mr. Josephson is acutely aware that not everyone is "most people" and that there are literally thousands who slip through the cracks each year on just the California Bar Exam alone.

The likelihood that doing "what everyone else is doing" is particularly risky for certain kinds of people:

• Those who have already failed the bar exam on one or more occasions ("repeaters," whose bar results are traditionally well below those of "first-timers" or "all takers")



• Those at or near the bottom of their law school classes



• Those who went to law schools with traditionally low bar passage rates



• Those who have been practicing law in another state before taking their current bar exam



• Those who otherwise graduated from law school a year or more before the bar exam that they are taking



• Those who feel that they are just "out of synch" with the rest of their law school or bar review classmates



• Those who are particularly uneasy about the process

For these people, the question is (or at least ought to be) whether it makes sense for them to take "courses" and/or "programs" that may have worked for others, but which have not historically worked well for them or people like them.  After all, Albert Einstein is reputed to have defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

The fact that Mr. Josephson doesn't try to squeeze those with whom he works into pre-existing rigid programs doesn't mean that he is simply "winging it" or re-inventing the wheel for each tutee, however.  Instead, he has developed and perfected highly-effective methodologies which he uses to successfully diagnosis and remedy virtually any type of problem that any individual bar applicant or law school student might have – whether that problem relates to one or more "examination technique" problems (there are numerous kinds for each type of test – essay, multiple choice, or "performance" – that plague various individuals), "substantive law" problems (again, there are many different types), "study and retention" problems (you guessed it, there are many different types), or any combination of them.