Essay Advantage is an intensive essay writing program designed to help you overcome the obstacles that often prevent students from passing the Nevada Bar examination. Developed in California in 1984, the program has helped thousands of bar exam applicants succeed on the difficult essay examination portion of the California bar exam and since 2001 has been offered for the Nevada exam.

Your score on the essay portion of the Nevada Bar Exam will depend on not only your knowledge of the general rules and Nevada law, but also on your ability to quickly organize and effectively write a superior answer. Since each of your bar exam essay answers will be graded in relation to everyone else's answers, the key to passing the Nevada Bar Exam is making your essays stand out as well written and clearly reasoned.

Essay Advantage can help you maximize those skills!

Coverage
The program includes a brief substantive review of key topics followed by discussion of an essay approach. The essay approach is then implemented by practicing each component and finally writing out complete practice exams under timed conditions. The Essay Advantage is directed at essay technique and is not intended as a substitute for bar review.

Writing sessions
Students will write practice exams in class, most of which will be critiqued individually with extensive comments.

Teaching sessions
Video study aids reinforce substance on the most heavily tested subjects. Live lecture sessions teach essay writing strategy and exam approach skills specifically tailored to the Nevada bar exam. To reinforce the skills instruction, in-class outlining and issue-spotting exercises are included as well as graded simulated essay exams. Nevada law and nuances specific to the Nevada essay exam are emphasized.

Simulated exam
The final session of the course is a 4 hour graded simulated essay exam consisting of recent past Nevada bar exam essay questions.

Tutorial conference
A tutorial conference with the resident tutor is arranged as part of your course without extra charge.

Written materials
The Essay Advantage Workbook is heavily relied upon by students over and above the bar review materials to learn and organize the myriad of testable essay subjects on the bar exam. The book contains bar exam questions and full answers. The materials are Nevada specific.

Faculty
The live lecture sessions are taught by Mary Goza, a director with BAR/BRI Bar Review for over 17 years. Ms. Goza has been teaching Nevada essay workshops since 1996 and has taken and passed 8 bar exams, all on her first attempt.

The video portion is taught by nationally recognized experts in exam analysis and instruction:

Professor Richard Conviser (IIT Kent)
National Director and Founder of the BAR/BRI program. A graduate of Boalt Hall, he has been preparing students for the bar exam for over 20 years.

Associate Dean Richard Freer (Emory Law School)
A graduate of UCLA law, he is a five-time recipient of the Most Outstanding Professor Award and won the Johnson Award for Faculty Excellence. He has co-authored two volumes of Moore's Federal Practice and a casebook on Civil Procedure.

Format
Full day sessions are held from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on two consecutive weekends (both Saturday and Sunday) followed by a half-day morning simulated exam session the third weekend. A small group tutorial session will be scheduled during the days following the simulated exam. Classes are held at UNLV Boyd School of Law and are scheduled as best as possible so as not to conflict with the BAR/BRI Bar Review program. The tutorial conferences are small group sessions, however direct access to the instructor is available each session of the program.

Cost
The tuition is $1195 or $895 for current or past BAR/BRI alumni. Essay Advantage is limited in size and seats are reserved on a first to pay in full basis.