CA LPC Juris study plan
CA LPC Juris · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Rules of Professional Conduct and Attorney Regulation
Map every California Rule of Professional Conduct rule to its triggering fact pattern and state the duty it creates in one sentence each
Draft a one-page decision tree for conflicts of interest covering current-client, former-client, and prospective-client scenarios
Write 20 original fact patterns and label the specific rule each implicates
Identify the attorney-regulation bodies (State Bar, Office of Chief Trial Counsel, California Supreme Court) and the discipline each can impose
Your checkpoint
Conflicts-of-interest decision tree plus a 20-item rule-identification log with self-graded answers
Rules of Professional Conduct and Attorney Regulation
Distinguish duties of confidentiality, loyalty, competence, and communication by writing a fact pattern where two of them collide and resolving it
Outline the discipline process from complaint through State Bar Court hearing to Supreme Court review
List the elements of a fee agreement and flag which fee arrangements require written disclosure or written consent
Compare the treatment of client property, trust accounts, and third-party funds in a table with the governing rule cited per row
Your checkpoint
Closed-book 25-question self-test on Domain 1 with a written error log for every missed question
Civil Procedure and Litigation Practice
Diagram the California pleading sequence from complaint through answer and demurrer, noting each filing deadline
Build a timeline table of service-of-process methods and their due-date consequences
Write a short-answer response to a discovery dispute that identifies the device, the objection, and the sanction available
Distinguish demurrer, motion to strike, and motion for judgment on the pleadings by the defect each targets
Your checkpoint
One-page litigation flowchart with all deadlines annotated, plus a 15-question deadline-calculation drill scored to 80% or better
Civil Procedure and Litigation Practice & Evidence
Apply each evidence rule of admissibility to a hypothetical exhibit and state the exclusionary basis if inadmissible
Match hearsay exceptions to fact patterns without looking at notes
Explain how pleading and pre-trial rulings shape what evidence reaches the jury
Draft a short motion-in-limine style argument tying a procedural posture to an evidentiary objection
Your checkpoint
Midpoint cumulative exam of 40 mixed questions across Domains 1, 2, and 5, with a scored breakdown by domain
Contracts, Torts, and Remedies
Outline the elements of the major contract doctrines (formation, breach, defenses) and pair each with a remedy
Write 15 original tort fact patterns and identify the controlling standard of care and damages theory
Distinguish compensatory, equitable, and restitutionary remedies by applying each to one fact pattern
Identify the statute-of-limitations issue in each of five short scenarios
Your checkpoint
Remedy-selection matrix plus a 30-question Domain 3 self-test with a written rationale for each answer
Criminal Law and Procedure & Business Associations and Real Property
Trace a criminal case from arrest through preliminary hearing to trial, naming the constitutional right triggered at each stage
Distinguish the exclusionary rule, Miranda, and voluntariness as separate grounds for suppression
Compare the governance and liability rules of corporations, partnerships, and LLCs in a single comparison table
Identify the recording, priority, and title-transfer rules for real property in five short scenarios
Your checkpoint
Two comparison tables (criminal procedure stages; entity and property rules) each with rule citations, plus a 20-question mixed self-test
Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics & Rules of Professional Conduct and Attorney Regulation
Summarize the major jurisprudential schools and pair each with an argument it would endorse in a professional-responsibility dispute
Apply an ethical framework to a hard hypothetical where the rule outcome and the moral outcome diverge, and defend the resolution
Re-review the three most-missed Domain 1 rules from the Week 2 error log and write a corrected explanation for each
Draft a short essay connecting attorney-regulation goals to one jurisprudential theory
Your checkpoint
One timed 45-minute essay on a jurisprudence-and-ethics prompt, self-scored against a rubric you write
Rules of Professional Conduct and Attorney Regulation & Civil Procedure and Litigation Practice & Contracts, Torts, and Remedies & Criminal Law and Procedure & Evidence & Business Associations and Real Property & Jurisprudence and Legal Ethics
Take two full-length timed mixed practice exams under exam conditions
Re-drill every question missed in Weeks 2 through 7 and log the rule behind each miss
Rank all seven domains by practice accuracy and spend remaining time on the two weakest
Write a one-page exam-day strategy covering time allocation, guessing, and flagging
Your checkpoint
Full-length practice exam score report with a per-domain accuracy table and a one-page exam-day strategy sheet
Milestones
Week 2: Score 80% or better on the closed-book Domain 1 self-test and show an error log with a written correction for every miss
Week 4: Score 75% or better on the 40-question cumulative exam across Domains 1, 2, and 5, with no domain below 65%
Week 6: Complete both comparison tables with rule citations and score 75% or better on the 20-question mixed self-test
Week 8: Complete two full-length timed exams and submit a per-domain accuracy table and exam-day strategy sheet