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I knew that law school would be a steep mountain to climb. It turned out to be more than the challenge I expected. Instead, my law school experience profoundly shook my confidence in my academic abilities. I am a son of working class immigrants. My parents never had the opportunity to pursue much formal education. But, as a child, my parents did instill in me the drive to never give up when facing a challenge.

Yet, I earned terrible grades my first year of law school, and that, along with the culture shock of being around so many students from backgrounds much more privileged than mine, gave me imposter syndrome before it was a recognized term. Those experiences led me to seriously reconsider my goal of become a lawyer. However, I began focusing my free time during law school on helping the under-served. As a result, I regained my focus, and greatly improved my grades during the second and third years of law school. Yet, due to my poor grades in my first year classes, I could not crack a top 50% ranking amongst my peers by the time I graduated in June 2006.

After graduation, and facing the bar exam, I knew I would be seriously challenged once again. I took a generic commercial bar review course, but quickly found that a lot of time and energy in the course was wasted. A couple of weeks into the program, after performing poorly on several practice essays in a row, I became terrified of not passing the bar exam. I needed to develop a personalized approach that would ensure my success. Here you can learn about the methods I used to study for my bar exams, and the methods I currently employ at Superior Bar Exam Coaching.

Using my methods methodically and consistently for six weeks, my performance steadily improved. I was finally getting confident about the bar exam. In July 2006, I took and passed the California bar exam. I was so excited about the methods I employed, that once I got the good news about California, I registered to take the New York bar exam in February 2007.

By early 2007, I was interning full-time at a small Southern California legal aid organization. Therefore, I was only able to study part-time for four weeks for the New York exam. However, I was again systematic about using all of the methods I used to study for the California bar exam. Consequently, I passed the New York bar exam on the first try.

Then, because I was even more excited about the study method I had developed for myself, I decided to take the Nevada bar exam. I registered for the July 2007 administration of that test. Soon after registering, I was hired as the executive director of the legal aid organization where I had been interning. I was working more hours, and could only study for the Nevada bar exam in my free time. I studied less that 14 days total, and only full-time the final three days before the exam. However, I employed the same methods I had used to study for, and pass, the California and New York bar exams. Again I was successful in passing the bar exam.

Since passing my last bar exam in July 2007, having proven my methods, I accepted it as a personal obligation to my fellow law school graduates, especially repeat exam-takers, to assist them with passing the bar exam. In the years since making that commitment, I provided bar exam coaching services pro bono to dozens of friends and acquaintances studying for the California, New York, and Nevada bar exams. I did this while I was an attorney working in private practice or working at non-profit legal aid organizations.

In 2021, I opened my coaching business to expand my reach to help more law school graduates attain their goals of becoming attorneys. I take a personalized approach to assisting all my students. It shall be my privilege to serve you as your coach and tutor, and guide you through the inevitable challenges you will face along the way to becoming an attorney and counselor-at-law licensed in California, Nevada, or any Uniform Bar Exam jurisdiction.

I look forward to helping you make your professional dreams a reality by passing the next bar exam!

Enrique