{"id":2507,"date":"2005-12-03T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/12\/03\/the-barbri-monopoly\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T16:15:20","slug":"the-barbri-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"the-barbri-monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAR\/BRI<\/a> has been sued! Strangely enough many in the industry are not surprised when the course costs close to $3000, and the would be lawyer isn’t even guaranteed a live lecture. Are the claims it makes even true?
\nThe Times article focuses more on the company’s tendencies to eliminate all the competition.<\/p>\n

In 2003, BAR\/BRI and L.S.U. agreed that BAR\/BRI would provide a bar review course in place of one that L.S.U. offered. BAR\/BRI promised to pay L.S.U. $100,000 over a three-year term, as well as $20,000 annually for use of L.S.U.’s facilities. BAR\/BRI agreed to charge discounted tuition of between $545 and $645 to L.S.U. law students who had signed up for the school’s bar review course. But for new review students, tuition was set to rise to $1,095 in the first year, $1,195 in the second year and $1,295 in the third year.
\nThe agreement also contained this provision: "L.S.U. Law Center agrees that it shall not, without the prior consent of BAR\/BRI, undertake for itself or engage any third party to manage or administer any course that could be competitive with BAR\/BRI."
\nJohn J. Costonis, the chancellor of the L.S.U. law center, said the deal with BAR\/BRI made sense. Before he arrived at the school in 1998, he said, "The student bar association at the law school in past years had offered a bar review course and frankly it wasn’t very good."
\nHe said he tried to overhaul and improve the program, but his efforts rested heavily on the ability to attract students in New Orleans in addition to those at L.S.U.’s campus in Baton Rouge. When few students enrolled, he said it quickly became clear the program was not viable.
\nMr. Costonis, who said that as a practicing lawyer he had gotten to know executives at BAR\/BRI, called the company to see if they could work out a deal. Raising the percentage of students who pass the bar was a top priority, he added. "My concern was reasonable price and best quality," Mr. Costonis said, adding that the agreement had a three-year term so that if the bar passage rate did not improve, then L.S.U. could get out of the arrangement.
\nThe move did not go over well with students, said Ms. Gintz, the L.S.U. law graduate. "They kind of just announced it to us all of a sudden: ‘L.S.U. is no longer going to have a bar review, all you guys are going to have to take BAR\/BRI,’ " she said. "There was a huge uprising among the students."<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I was at St. Mu the school advertised two review courses: BAR\/BRI and PMBR. If you considered not taking either you were told flat out by the administration that you were going to fail. Frankly, I know people who passed without those course, but it makes you wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BAR\/BRI has been sued! Strangely enough many in the industry are not surprised when the course costs close to $3000, and the would be lawyer isn’t even guaranteed a live lecture. Are the claims it makes even true? The Times article focuses more on the company’s tendencies to eliminate all the competition. In 2003, BAR\/BRI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}