I passed Feb. 2014!! With only a couple weeks left before the exam, I reached out to Steven and decided to take his PT course as well as get feedback on CA essays. I was a transplant attorney from the east coast and a single mother trying to study, work and raise a six month old, all on my own. Failing simply wasn’t an option for me. I would have been out of a job and not be able to support my child. The stakes were really high! Steven was very real with me right from the start. He told me to study now and sleep after I passed the bar. His PT course was absolutely crucial to me passing. I also found his advice regarding essays and memorization schedule really helpful. I signed up too late to take the PT course in person, but Steven allowed me to participate remotely and watch it on my own time. I used every one of his tips during the exam. While people around me were painstakingly reading every section of their library, I was crossing out huge portions as I had learned to do and not wasting time. His method works. I’m proof. Thanks Steven!! — Nicole Clark, Esq., passed the February 2014 California Bar Examination

Time is Money. Your time is about to become increasingly valuable to those around you. Get ahead of the curve. Steven helped me pivot my mindset and position myself for success in my approach to the Bar “in a lawyer-like manner” from start to finish. Steven provided me with the tools and confidence to focus MY efforts to efficiently and effectively attack and anticipate the challenge before me. The day of the exam I felt ready to meet anything the examiners might throw at me head on, with confidence and resolve. The mystery was gone. It feels good to win. Don’t waste any more of your time. The time I spent preparing with Steven will continue to pay dividends long into the future. — Brett Baker, Esq., passed the July 2019 California Bar Examination

There are many bar prep programs and tutors out there that will give you a schedule and a bunch of material to study to prep you for the exam. Steve Harris aims to get you inside the mind of the grader and break down the inside baseball of what the examiners actually want you to give them so you can see past the tricks, avoid frequent pitfalls, pass the exam, and get on with your career.

That’s not to say that you don’t get a rigorous and comprehensive study schedule. In the months before the July 2015 Bar Exam I traveled frequently and Steven engineered a challenging, but realistic study schedule that he knew would get me where I needed to be on exam day.

One of the most helpful things you’ll get from Steven is something you can’t get anywhere else: the essay review program. I’m sure someone else would offer something similar if not for the fact that Steve Harris invented the program. By following his instructions to the letter, I learned to accurately predict the essay issues for which points would be awarded in each subject.

Working with Steven and equipped with a strategy for side-stepping the examiners’ games, you can then turn off your brain and stop guessing about which rule statement’s to use because he gives you the rules. I only used his rule statements and I am now a member of the State Bar of California.

Finally, I have to recommend Steven Harris’ program because getting re-familiarized with all the black letter law you learned in law school, learning how to read the examiners’ minds, and pushing through an absolutely agonizing memorization process takes resolve. When you’re studying for the bar there isn’t time for you to feel defeated and take a break and there definitely isn’t time to question whether or not you’re learning what you need to know for the exam. Steve serves as a capable, firm, confident guide through the process. Sometimes he’ll give you some tough love, but that’s because he won’t mince words – you don’t have time for that either. Steven is really committed to helping his students pass the Bar. Put him in your corner. — Brooks Allen, Esq., passed the July 2015 California Bar Examination

I highly recommend Steven Harris’ program if you are taking the CA bar exam, particularly as a repeat taker. I enrolled in Steven’s tutoring program, which included his innovative individual study plan, copies of his books, and instruction in completing both his Essay Review week, and Memory Work. I struggled with information overload with the my bar prep program for the November exam, and found that the final crucial weeks leading to the exam were essentially left unguided. I followed Steven’s program for my second attempt, and am happy to say I was successful and passed! I would highly endorse both Steven’s program as well as his books. WINNIN’ TIME! provides an excellent time-saving method for the essay portion of the bar exam, and includes easy to remember templates that follow a formula proven to generate points from the graders. I also found that Steven’s MBE flowchart book helped me to identify patterns in the MBE questions, which had been my biggest weakness on the first exam.

But it was Steven’s comprehensive program that worked for me, addressing each portion of the exam individually with the focus on generating points on the actual exam day. The schedule was manageable while I was working at my law firm part-time, and built upon the foundation that my prior bar prep course provided. I would highly recommend this program to everyone who is willing to put in the time, because the method does work. Good luck and thank you Steven! — Brianna Penna, Esq., passed the February 2013 California Bar Examination

I found Steven Harris’ tutoring program and the WINNIN’ TIME! study aid to be perfect for passing the California Bar Examination while minimizing the time required to study. I had recently unsuccessfully tried to pass the exam and had no time off from work to study for my second try. I also had a young family with little time to spare. The study aid was succinct and perfect for helping me remember exactly what I needed to know, and the one-on-one attention helped me fine-tune my exam writing skills, both for the essays and for the performance tests. By the time I took the bar exam I was well prepared to write in a concise, on-point style that covered all the issues presented. The result was a passing score on the Attorney’s Exam. — Neal Jagtap, Esq. (passed the July 2014 Cal Bar Exam)

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