Barbri (styled BARBRI or barbri) is a company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, whose primary product offering is a bar review course.[1] Because of the general difficulty of state bar exams, a majority of law school graduates choose to take some form of preparation course.[2] Barbri offers law school graduates a six to seven week review course[3] which features lectures by law professors on the seven major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) – torts, contracts, real property, evidence, criminal law, civil procedure and constitutional law – along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state in which the participant plans to take the bar.
History
The company's predecessors were founded in the 1950s by William A. Rutter in California and in 1967 by three Chicago attorneys – Richard Conviser, Lewis Collens and Beardsley Ruml. The Southeast was developed by Steven H. Levine, and the Northeast was developed by Stan Chess. In 1974,