Steven Harris has truly come up with a logical and effective way to conquer the California Bar Examination. His whole course focuses on point generation, which is exactly what students need when tackling the bar. The materials he provides are comprehensive and very straightforward. His strategies for essay writing and the performance tests are extremely helpful. The workload he assigns for each day is very realistic, as opposed to many other programs that drown students with more work per day than they can meaningfully complete. Steven Harris is an exceptionally encouraging and supportive tutor. He works with each student based on their individual learning styles and weaknesses. I highly recommend Steven Harris as a tutor for the California Bar Exam. – Nafisa Khwaja, Esq., passed the February 2015 California Bar Examination

Hi Steven!

I just wanted to drop you a line to say “Thank You” and let you know that I passed the July 2013 CA Bar Exam!

As you know, this was my third consecutive attempt, and I think that taking your Performance Test Workshop and utilizing your step-by-step essay review plan during the last 10 days prior to the bar exam REALLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE!

I also purchased both of your books, WINNIN’ TIME! and The Trigger List and found those aids to be an essential part of my study repertoire.

Basically, what I learned through this year-long process of repeat bar exams is that knowing the law ISN’T enough – you have to know THE TEST – BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS – and you teach your students how to do just that!

With gratitude,

Molly Franck, Esq. (PASSED the July 2013 California Bar Examination!

WINNIN’ TIME! helped me excel during 1L. This book is a must have for first year law students. Indeed, because I used Steven’s book, I easily moved from the top half of my class in my first semester to the top 15% of my class in my second semester. Steven’s succinct formulation of the rules and compartmentalization of the information through issue clustering make this book a winner. WINNIN’ TIME! made organization of material in my own course outlines almost effortless. I saved time outlining, but more importantly, I made outlines that were useful to me.

I will continue to use Steven’s method throughout my law school career. If you are getting ready to start your first year of law school, it is a mistake not to own this book. — Mike Olsen, UC Hastings 2L

Had it not been for Steven, I don’t know if I would have passed on my second try. In fact, I really do believe that had I hired Steven the for my first try, I likely would’ve passed!

Let me start by saying that, before law school, I taught for five years — all during this era of assessment-driven learning. During that time, I learned three things on the topic of standardized assessments: 1) any one of them can be mastered; 2) mastery requires a specific set of test-taking skills; and 3) while some students already have those skills before test day, those skills are learnable — and therefore teachable. In retrospect, it’s on the last factor where my first Bar prep program was lacking and where Steven’s program excelled, because I was a student who badly needed to learn those skills.

With Steven’s course, I learned how MBE topics are tested and how to quickly spot bad answer choices; how to essays are graded and how to present a topic; how to manage my time during bar prep and on the test.

On test day, it felt like I had encountered almost every possible scenario and therefore knew what to do when things didn’t go as planned — like when I had my brief panic attack and lost out on a precious 5-6 minutes during the first essay, like where to allocate any extra time I had left over (yeah, it happened and it was weird), or like how to answer a question where I hadn’t a clue about the black letter on the topic.

In short, I don’t regret taking the course at all. And if I have a regret, it’s that I didn’t hire Steven sooner. — Saul Rodriguez, Esq., passed the February 2020 California Bar Examination

I was referred to Steven by my sister who had enlisted Steven as a tutor and had passed the Bar on her first try. She was adamant that Steven’s individualized calendar of assignments had kept her on track during the summer when she was not only studying for the Bar but also planning her wedding. Furthermore, she was convinced that Steven’s well-planned week of systematic memorization before the Bar had been crucial to her success in passing the Bar when her computer crashed during the test and she was forced to write her answers by hand. I too only wanted to endure those three months of studying for the Bar once – that is why I chose Steven.

Unlike my sister I had different areas of weaknesses in studying for the Bar. Whereas she used Steven’s calendar to keep up with her work when she was tempted to fly to Vegas for her bachelorette party, I used the calendar as a way to make an overwhelming task seem manageable. Whereas my sister’s Achilles’ heel lie in Performance Tests, mine lie in Essays. Not only did Steven’s feedback tailor to both of our needs, but Steven provided the individualized help that BarBri could not and a hand-selected and manageable calendar of the most pertinent assignments from the gargantuan list which Bar/Bri provided. Furthermore, Steven’s book WINNIN’ TIME!, a collection of short and easy to memorize rules, allowed me to learn the material with time left to do what I felt was most important – practice. Having Steven as a tutor as well as using his book WINNIN’ TIME! were crucial tools to my first time success.

Looking back on my three days of taking the Bar I was fairly calm, cool, and collected. This was because I had been following Steven’s calendar of assignments the three months prior – practicing Essays, Performance Tests and MBE’s, receiving Steven’s individualized feedback, and memorizing WINNIN’ TIME! In those few moments of panic which I did have during the exam, I would take a deep breath or a quick walk to the bathroom (per Steven’s advice), refer back to the outlines which I had memorized the week before, and then be back on track.

I would give the same advice to anyone I know who wants to pass the Bar for the first time that my sister gave to me – call Steven Harris! — Ariel Guggenheim, Esq., Santa Clara alum, passed July 2010, 1st timer

STEVEN’S METHOD WORKS!! After taking Bar/Bri, many hours burning the midnight oil studying, and failing the bar in July, I knew I had to do something different in order to succeed in February. In our first conversation, Steven Harris made me feel competent and capable of passing the bar. All I had to do was follow directions! He provided the schedule, the books, boilerplates, enthusiasm and all the secrets that you haven’t heard before. He even showed me exactly how to write for the bar examiners. I was pleasantly surprised at how less stressed I was this time around. Yet by February, I never felt more prepared in taking a test. I knew the law and knew how to convey it. And I PASSED! Steven Harris was an invaluable investment I will gladly look back upon throughout my entire career. — Anna Evans, Esq., passed the February 2011 Cal Bar Examination

WINNIN’ TIME! is everything that you need to know and nothing you don’t to pass the California BAR exam delivered in a format that is easy to read and memorize. I could not believe how confident I felt going into the exam after working with this book. – Alex Eagle, Esq., passed the February 2011 Cal Bar Examination

I have spent an embarrassing amount of money on multiple bar preparation courses and materials so I can tell you from experience that The Trigger List is the most groundbreaking bar exam preparation tool out there. It shows you how to spot issues by teaching you the (not always intuitive) language used by the California BAR examiners. — Alex Eagle, Esq., passed the February 2011 Cal Bar Examination

After dealing with the agony of hiring several other bum tutors, I finally found Steven. He delivered for me on every level and I know that had I found him earlier I would have passed the first time. — Alex Eagle, Esq., passed the February 2011 Cal Bar Examination

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If Steven’s tutoring program needed a poster child, then hands down, that would be me. I had everything stacked against me. Repeater, non ABA school, and special student, which means no undergrad degree and I had to take and pass the baby bar during law school.

Memorizing endless outlines, does not work for me, but the way Steve’s book WINNIN’ TIME! lays out all the rules for you makes it easier to manage and to compartmentalize the information in your head.

Essays can be difficult for some. Law school does not necessarily teach you to write the way the bar wants you to. Spend some time with Steven and his program and it will all click. He has spent countless hours pulling apart past essays, he has figured it out and you will be amazed at how simple it really can be once you are focusing your energy in the correct area.

PT’s might as well have been a brick wall, without a doubt the one thing that was standing between me and passing the bar. However I took Steven’s PT seminar, in January before the February 2012 California Bar Exam, and without a doubt this was the best thing I had done in preparation for my test. Once I saw his method of how to pull apart a PT exam, the light bulb clicked and the result was a letter from the State Bar of California telling me that they were delighted to inform me that I had passed their test!

I had tried other bar prep courses, they were good, but they were not for me, I felt like I was spinning my wheels and pulling information from everywhere. I needed more individualized attention and better focus. With Steven’s program I felt that my study time was more productive.

When I say individualized I am not kidding. You are not just a number with Steven, he truly cares whether or not you pass. Now, of course he has a vested interest in whether or not you pass, but I believe he really does personally care separately from a business interest. Case in point, the July 2011 bar exam. The Bar Gods were not liking me. During day one of the exam I had a medical problem which flared up and rendered one arm unusable, and caused a great deal of pain. Everyone told me to quit I called Steven for advice and Steven was the only one that said “keep going if you can, what do you have to lose at this point?” (I did not want to quit.) He gave me a pep talk, built up my confidence and I pushed through and finished it.

A couple of months later I received notification from the bar that only two of my answers had uploaded and that I would be receiving a grade of zero for the other six. After some inquiry I discovered that there had been a technical problem and indeed the bar did not have my answers. They found my answers and were able to see that there was a technical problem. Great right? Now they can grade my essays, right? Wrong. Although the bar is not out to punish anyone, and they truly are not, they still have rules that they have to follow otherwise it would be mayhem and in order to have my answers graded I was going to have to appeal to the committee of Bar Examiners and time was of the essence because results at this point were due out in two weeks. I called Steven for guidance and even though I had only signed on for his “A la Carte” program he stepped up and helped me write the letter to the committee. He kept in constant contact with me until I had heard from them. Eventually we won the appeal and my answers were graded. Steven went above and beyond what he had signed up for, because he cared about whether or not I passed on a personal level. I did not pass that time, I knew it was a long shot with one arm, but if I had not had my essays graded then I was failing for sure. In the end I just missed it, but he gave me some good advice and told me to shake it off, and get going for the next one, which I did with his help and I passed. I highly recommend video taping the uploading process of your answers!

If you do exactly what he tells you, then there is no reason that you would not pass. If you don’t pass you need to ask yourself, “Did I do everything he told me?” and if you answer honestly then the answer would be NO.

I am very grateful to my friends for referring me to Steven Harris. I would not have passed the bar without his help.

Shirley Boyd, Esq. (passed the February 2012 Cal Bar Examination)