Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 280: Why Do People Fail the Bar Exam? BET Tutors Weigh In (Part 1)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 279: Quick Tips -- Retaking the Bar Exam After Failing
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 277: California Is Outsourcing the Bar Exam to Kaplan?!?
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 276: Listen and Learn -- General, Special, and Quitclaim Deeds (Property)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 275: Bar Exam Challenges and Strategies for International Attorneys
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 274: Listen and Learn -- UCC Expectation Damages (Contracts)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 273: Quick Tips -- Mastering the Bar Exam as an ESL or Foreign-Trained Student
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 272: Coping with Anxiety During Bar Prep and on Exam Day (w/Angela Corbett)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 271: Quick Tips -- Optimizing Studying for the MBE
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 270: How to Approach MBE Questions (w/Examples)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 269: Listen and Learn -- Creation of Partnerships
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 268: How to Avoid Common Bar Essay Writing Mistakes (w/Kelsey Lee)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 266: Quick Tips -- Pre-Writing Outlining for Bar Essays
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 265: Quick Tips -- What If You Run Out of Time While Writing a Bar Essay Answer?
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 452: Standardized Testing Equity (w/David Klieger from Aspen Publishing)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 263: Navigating Accommodations and Self-Advocacy in the Legal Field (w/AJ Link)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 258: Keys to Bar Exam Success with Themis (w/Rebecca Petrilli)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 256: Quick Tips -- Budgeting for the Bar Exam
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 443: Bar Exam Basics for Law Students
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 255: Quick Tips -- Best Bar Exam Study Habits for Takers w/ ADHD
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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently signed a new bill into law requiring commercial health insurers in the Hawkeye State to cover health care services provided via telehealth to the same extent those services are covered via...more
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Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently signed into law SB 726, establishing new telemedicine practice standards, including explicitly allowing doctors to create valid physician-patient relationships via telemedicine without...more
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Texas telehealth requirements will significantly change in the near future if Texas Senate Bill 1107 is passed into law, which removes the controversial “face-to-face” or in-person consultation requirement to establish a...more
Arkansas currently has one of the most restrictive telemedicine environments in the country, and was one of the last states to require an in-person examination to form a provider-patient relationship. Prior to September 2016,...more
Michigan is ringing in 2017 with a new telehealth law. Governor Rick Snyder signed into law SB 0753 on December 21, 2016, imposing new telehealth practice standards, including restrictions on prescribing controlled substances...more
On October 17, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the Texas Medical Board’s (“Board”) motion to voluntarily dismiss its appeal of the District Court’s decision on sovereign immunity in its latest...more
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