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Who We Are

The Bar Secrets^® TJSL California Bar Program offers a personal, cutting-edge approach to mastering law school and ultimately the bar exam. And because the school subsidizes it, it’s available to you at less than half the cost of the corporate conglomerates. With all the personal attention and individualized feedback you receive, you basically get double the service, at less than half the price.

Who We Are NOT

Bar Secrets^® is not a large, corporate-backed bar prep course with high name recognition that offers a cookie-cutter approach to law school and the bar exam. “Cookie cutters” boost the bottom line (and they work well in baking), but they ignore the top priority — you, the individual student and bar candidate. Because Bar Secrets^® is not paid per student, the program focuses on people — not profits.

What You Get

• Great Results
  • (Feb. 2012 CA Bar Exam TJSL Pass Rate: Bar Secrets^® — 64 % vs. “Other” — 57 %)
  • (Feb. 2011 CA Bar Exam TJSL Pass Rate: Bar Secrets^® — 60 % vs. “Other” — 34.5 %)
• Multiple Structured Essay and PT Writing Sessions
• Minimum of 5 Full Mock Bar Essay Exam Days
• 3 Full Mock MBE Days
• Access to Multistate Edge^®
• Access to Bar Secrets^® Video Lecture Series Online Dashboard
• Structured Final Study and Memorization Plan
• Voice-Annotated, Multi-Media Feedback on Essays and PTs
• Access to Sit-Down Meetings with the Instructors Who Teach the Subjects
• Unlimited Email Inquiries
• Free Face-to-Face Consultations in Person, iChat, or FaceTime
• Accurate Bar Essay Subject Predictions
• Stress Management
• Emotional Support

What You Don’t Get

• A Tiered Pricing Structure with Different Classes of Service
• Consultation Charges
• Nickeled-and-Dimed with Hidden Costs
• Limits on Essay and PT Feedback
• Limits on Free Email Questions or Face-to-Face Consultations
• Minimal and Generalized “Canned” Feedback on Essays and PTs
• Hard Sales from Reps Who Work on Commission
• “Celebrity” Lecturers Who You Don’t Ever Get to Talk To

What You Will Receive

1L Student

• The 1L Book (Covering all first year subjects)
• A video program – A subscription to online videos for your computer, smartphone, and tablet for the entire 1L academic year

2L Student

• The 2L Book (Covering all second year subjects)
• A video program – A subscription to online videos for your computer, smartphone, and tablet for the entire 2L academic year

3L Student

• The Multistate Subjects Book (Includes all subjects covered in Legal Synthesis I)
• Single subject books for all subjects covered in Legal Synthesis II when you enroll in LS II
• A video program – A subscription to online videos for your computer, smartphone, and tablet for all subjects covered in Legal Synthesis I & II and more

The Bar Secrets^® TJSL Program provides you with the tools you need to pass the bar exam. What’s even better is that federal rules allow TJSL to extend your student budget loan limit in your graduating semester to finance in-house programs like the Bar Secrets TJSL program. Federal rules do not, however, permit this extension to finance outside programs like BarBri or Kaplan PMBR.

Admissions Requirements for LL.M. in International Trade & Investment and American Legal Studies

Thomas Jefferson does not provide conditional admission to its programs. In order to apply to the program LL.M., you must complete and submit the following information:

1. An application
   1. Please complete and submit an LLM application.
   2. Deadlines
      1. Fall Admission – August start
         • Must submit application by June 1st
      2. Spring Admission – January start
         • Must submit application by November 1st
2. Application Fee - $50

3. An official and English translated and evaluated copy of your transcripts. – Students are encouraged to submit their transcripts to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC - www.lsac.org) or the World Education Services (WES - www.wes.org). You must have your transcripts evaluated and sent to us. In most instances, to have your transcripts evaluated may take up to 5 weeks.

   NOTE – you must have your transcript sent to an outside evaluation company who will not only translate your transcript to English (if necessary), but will also evaluate the degree and grade equivalency to the US grading system. Transcripts not formally evaluated by an outside company will not be accepted.

4. A resume.
5. A personal statement / statement of interest. The statement should be generally 2-3 pages double spaced.
6. Two (2) letters of recommendation.
7. LSAT – An LSAT score is not required for the LLM program.
8. Interview – All students will be required to interview. Interviews may be done in person or via Skype.
9. International Students
   1. TOEFL score - Average test scores:
      1. 92 (internet based);
      2. 240 (computer based);
      3. 590 (paper based)
   2. IETLS score – Average test scores:
      1. (6.5) Reading
      2. (6.5) Writing
      3. (6.0) Listening
      4. (6.0) Speaking

      NOTE – if you received your college / university degree from a foreign school, you are required to submit a TOEFL, regardless of citizenship or residency, unless you seek permission to waive the requirement. To waive the requirement, you must request a telephone or SKYPE (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/home) meeting with an admissions counselor.

Applicants applying to either the LL.M. program in International Trade and Investment or American Legal Studies should submit all application documents to the following:

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

c/o Michelle Allison – Residential LL.M.

1155 Island Avenue

San Diego, CA

92101

Thomas Jefferson School of Law