Oregon Bar study plan

Outline Civil Procedure from scratch in your own words, organized around the litigation timeline from pleadings through appeal, and flag the three subtopics you understand least.

Drill personal and subject-matter jurisdiction plus venue by writing the one-paragraph rule statement for each from memory, then checking it against your outline.

Build an Evidence framework that separates relevance, the Article IV policy exclusions, and the hearsay sequence (definition, exemptions, exceptions, confrontation), and label each branch with its leading case or rule number.

Complete 40 mixed Civil Procedure and Evidence multiple-choice questions and log every miss with the reason it was missed (rule unknown, rule misapplied, or misread call).

Work through Erie and the choice-of-law problem set: for each of ten hypotheticals, state whether state or federal law governs and why in two sentences.

Practice joinder, counterclaims, cross-claims, impleader, intervention, and interpleader by drafting the procedural posture for one fact pattern from each angle.

Master hearsay exceptions by reciting the elements of the business-records, present-sense-impression, excited-utterance, and prior-testimony exceptions without notes.

Write two full essay answers under 30-minute timed conditions, one Civil Procedure and one Evidence, and self-grade against a checklist of required rule statements.

Review the week's error log and re-do every question you missed without looking at the prior answer.

Map Constitutional Law into judicial review, federalism and the commerce power, due process, equal protection, and First Amendment, and write the tier-of-scrutiny test for each suspect and quasi-suspect classification.

Distill the incorporation doctrine and the state-action requirement into a short checklist you can apply to any fact pattern in under two minutes.

Outline Criminal Law offenses (homicide, theft crimes, inchoate offenses, accomplice liability) and defenses (insanity tests, self-defense, duress, entrapment) with the elements written out.

Build a Criminal Procedure flowchart covering the Fourth Amendment seizure analysis, the exclusionary rule and its exceptions, the Fifth Amendment custodial-interrogation rule, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and identification procedures.

Answer 50 mixed Constitutional Law and Criminal Law/Procedure questions and tag each wrong answer to the doctrine it tested.

Write four timed essays, two Constitutional Law and two Criminal Law/Procedure, in 30 minutes each, and grade them against required-rule checklists.

Practice issue-spotting on multi-defendant criminal fact patterns by listing every charge each defendant could face and the defense available to each.

Recite the levels of police intrusion and the warrant exceptions (search incident to arrest, automobile, plain view, consent, exigency, inventory) with the limiting case for each.

Re-work every missed question from weeks 1 through 3 and confirm you can now state the governing rule without notes.

Outline Contracts and Sales around formation, consideration, defenses to formation, Statute of Frauds, third-party rights, performance and breach, remedies, and UCC Article 2 gaps, marking where the common law and UCC diverge.

Write the parol-evidence and UCC battle-of-the-forms rules from memory and apply each to two short hypotheticals.

Outline Torts by intentional torts, negligence (duty, breach, causation, damages), strict liability, and products liability, and write the elements of each intentional tort as a list.

Practice negligence per se, res ipsa loquitur, and comparative versus contributory negligence by classifying ten one-line fact patterns.

Answer 40 mixed Contracts and Torts questions and log misses by cause.

Write four timed essays, two Contracts/Sales and two Torts, and self-grade against rule checklists.

Outline Real Property around estates in land, concurrent ownership, landlord-tenant, transfers (deeds, recording acts, adverse possession), servitudes, and mortgages.

Distinguish present and future estates by writing the full classification of fee simple absolute, fee tail, life estate, fee simple defeasible, remainder, and executory interest with one example of each.

Apply the recording-act analysis to three priority disputes, naming the jurisdiction's act type and the outcome.

Recite the elements of adverse possession and the creation requirements for easements, covenants, and equitable servitudes.

Outline Business Associations around agency, general and limited partnerships, LLCs, and corporations (formation, governance, shareholder rights, fiduciary duties, and piercing the veil).

Outline Family Law around marriage and its requirements, divorce grounds, property division, spousal and child support, custody standards, and the UCCJEA and PKPA jurisdictional rules.

Outline Wills, Trusts, and Estates around intestacy, will execution and revocation, will contests, nonprobate transfers, trust creation and types, fiduciary duties, and powers of appointment.

Write two timed essays from these domains and grade them against required-rule checklists.

Answer 40 mixed questions across domains 6, 8, 9, and 10 and tag each miss to a doctrine.

Memorize the Professional Responsibility core: competence, confidentiality and its exceptions, conflicts of interest (current, former, and third-party), fees, safekeeping client funds, and the duty to report misconduct.

Practice the performance-test method by completing two timed performance tasks (90 minutes each), focusing on extracting the task memo's instructions and organizing the answer around them.

Run two full-length simulated exam days under timed conditions and score them.

Re-read every error log from weeks 1 through 7 and re-state the governing rule for each miss out loud without notes.

Build a one-page pre-exam sheet of the rules you most often misstated.