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Law professors Gafar E. Lutian and Manuel R. Riguera had long wanted to do something about the dismal pass rates in the bar examinations. They were deeply disturbed by the usual experience of law students assiduously studying and preparing for the bar but still failing to make it. In trying to pinpoint the cause of the high mortality rate in the bar, they observed that legal education consisted in the main of conveying, through lectures and readings, legal knowledge to law students and then having them regurgitate the same through recitations and examinations. The same system continued in the bar review where the reviewees continued to be bombarded with a myriad of laws and cases with the expectation or hope that they would somehow be able to disgorge the same in the bar examination room.
The two professors noted that while such input-based learning was doubtless essential to passing the bar, there was a felt need to further train law graduates in the equally vital test-taking competencies of problem analysis, issue-spotting, logical reasoning and argumentative writing. Desirous of helping the bar examinees, Professors Lutian and Riguera drew up plans for a bar review center that would offer not only bar-review lectures but more importantly provide a system of coaching and performance-monitoring that would equip the examinee with the indispensable skills to hurdle the bar. The guiding objective was to reboot the bar review paradigm from a conclusion-driven to a logic-driven approach.
In late 2004, after extensive brain-storming sessions, in which Professors Riguera and Lutian were joined by their respective spouses Attys. Hazel and Gina, the core group was able to design and finalize a novel and revolutionary bar review program that included mock bar exams, one-on-one coaching, and performance monitoring. In 28 January 2005, Jurists Review Center, Inc. was incorporated with Professor Manuel R. Riguera as the President and Atty. Hazel R. Riguera as the Chief Financial Officer.
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Jurists Bar Review Center prides itself in providing reviewees with a challenging and excellent bar review program almost invariably leading to passing the bar exam and achieving their dreams
Jurists is only one of the few law review centers in the country that conducts mock bar exams. This helps the examinee prepare for the pressure that will beset him in the actual bar exams.
Law professors Gafar E. Lutian and Manuel R. Riguera had long wanted to do something about the dismal pass rates in the bar examinations. They were deeply disturbed by the usual experience of law students assiduously studying and preparing for the bar but still failing to make it.
The aim of the Jurists coaching program is the scientific and rigorous training of the bar reviewee so that he or she can properly analyze a bar exam problem, identify the issues, and logically organize and present the answer in order to gain the most points from the bar examiner.