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CA LPC Juris study plan

CA LPC Juris · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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

Week 2

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

Week 3

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

Week 4

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

Week 5

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

Week 6

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

Week 7

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

Week 8

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