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Student Stories

Hear from our students as they recount their experiences studying with BARBRI. Our student stories feature a diverse range of students from various backgrounds, each sharing their experiences with our courses, materials, and assessments.

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  • Gerry W. Beyer

    Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law at Texas Tech University School of Law

    Subject: Wills and Trusts

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    Gerry Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in 2005 as the first holder of the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professorship. Prior to establishing himself in Texas, he taught as a professor or visiting professor at Boston College, The Ohio State University, SMU Dedman School of Law, and other law schools.  Recognized as an expert in estate planning, Gerry was inducted into the National Association of Estate Planning Councils’ Estate Planning Hall of Fame in November 2015. He presents dozens of continuing legal education presentations each year for many state and local bar associations, universities, and civic groups.

  • Samuel P. Jordan

    Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law

    Subject: Conflict of Laws

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    Samuel Jordan joined the Saint Louis University School of Law faculty in 2007 to teach in the areas of civil procedure, federal courts, and conflict of laws. He graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and went on to serve as a law clerk to the Honorable Milton I. Shadur, Senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. He then spent two years teaching at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law before establishing roots in Missouri.

  • Monica Hof Wallace

    Dean Marcel Garsaud, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

    Subject: Family Law

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    Monica Hof Wallace graduated first in her class at Loyola University School of Law. After graduation, she was a law clerk for the Honorable Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Monica joined the Loyola law faculty in New Orleans in 2002 after practicing at Correro Fishman Haygood Phelps Walmsley & Casteix (now Fishman Haygood). She teaches in the areas of family law, successions, donations, trusts, community property, and appellate advocacy. 

  • Douglas K. Moll

    A.A. White Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center

    Subject: Agency and Partnership, Secured Transactions

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    Douglas Moll came to the University of Houston Law Center in the fall of 1997 after spending two years practicing commercial litigation in Houston, Texas. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1994 and then went on to complete a clerkship with Judge Carolyn King on the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is the co-author of a treatise on closely held corporations, three casebooks on business law, and a concise hornbook on business organizations. He has also written numerous law review articles.

  • Roger E. Schechter

    Professor Emeritus of Law at the George Washington University Law School

    Subject: Torts

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    Roger Schechter has been a national bar review lecturer on torts for over 30 years. Additionally, he has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and NYU Schools of Law, and an adjunct professor at Cardozo School of Law. He is a two-time recipient of GW Law's Distinguished Faculty Service Award and was awarded the Pattishall Medal, a national award for excellence in the teaching of trademark law. Roger has participated in several training programs for new law teachers and was featured in an Above the Law interview about his work with BARBRI.

  • Paula Franzese

    Peter W. Rodino Professor of Law; Special Counsel for Attorney Ethics, Leadership and Professionalism; and Director of the Leadership Fellows Program at Seton Hall University School of Law

    Subject: Real Property

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    Nationally renowned for her excellence in public law teaching, Paula Franzese is the unprecedented ten-time recipient of the Student Bar Association’s Professor of the Year Award. In 2019, the award was renamed the Paula A. Franzese Professor of the Year Award in her honor. Paula is a leading scholar in property law, fair housing, and government ethics. She pioneered the cause of law-related and civic education during her tenure as President of the Justice Resource Center, the largest non-profit provider of law-related and civic education for grades four through twelve. In 2020, she was named one of the Top Women in Law by the New Jersey Law Journal. 

  • Jeremy Counseller

    Dean & Abner V. McCall Chair of Evidence Law at Baylor Law School

    Subject: Evidence

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    Jeremy Counseller joined the faculty of Baylor Law in 2003. Following his graduation with honors from Baylor Law, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Reynaldo G. Garza of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then entered private practice in Houston, Texas, working as an associate in the trial section for Bracewell & Patterson LLP (now Bracewell LLP). He also served as an Assistant Criminal District Attorney in McLennan County, Texas, where he prosecuted both misdemeanors and felonies. Jeremy has authored articles and presented papers on various evidentiary and procedural issues.

  • Chad Noreuil

    Clinical Professor of Law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

    Subject: Criminal Law and Procedure

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    Chad Noreuil has taught at ASU since 2001 in the areas of legal method and writing, legal advocacy, criminal law, prisoner rights, and passing the bar exam. He also teaches The Zen of Passing the Bar Seminar at law schools throughout the United States. Before joining ASU, Chad taught legal research and writing at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Mo. He was an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Illinois from 1996-2000, where he successfully litigated more than thirty jury trials.

  • Carliss Chatman

    Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law

    Subject: Contracts

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    Carliss Chatman specializes in corporate law, commercial law, ethics, and race and entrepreneurship. For over a decade in legal practice, she served as a commercial litigation attorney in Houston, Texas, focusing on trial law appeals and arbitration in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors; mass torts; product liability; and oil, gas, and mineral law. Carliss’ scholarship has appeared in journals such as UCLA Law Review, Michigan Journal of Race and the Law, Texas Law Review, UC Irvine Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and SMU Law Review.

  • Richard D. Freer

    Dean & Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law

    Subject: Civil Procedure and Corporations

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    Richard Freer is a noted scholar of civil procedure, federal jurisdiction, and complex litigation. Eleven Emory Law graduating classes have named him Most Outstanding Professor. Richard has authored or co-authored 17 books and dozens of journal articles and essays — with his work being cited by state and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is an elected life member of the American Law Institute and the only person to serve as contributing author to both standard multivolume treatises on federal jurisdiction and practice: Moore’s Federal Practice and Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice and Procedure.

  • Erwin Chemerinsky

    Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Law

    Subject: Constitution Law

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    In January 2017, National Jurist magazine named Erwin Chemerinsky the most influential person in legal education. He is considered an expert in constitutional law, First Amendment law, federal practice, criminal procedure, and appellate litigation. He has frequently argued appellate cases, including several in the U. S. Supreme Court. Prior to joining UC Berkeley Law, Erwin was the founding dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law at UC Irvine Law. He is the author of multiple books, including the leading text on constitutional law and over 200 law review articles.