Welcome to Bar Essay Assistant!

Hi! My name is Robb. I live in Santa Barbara, California, now. I consider myself quite lucky.

I went to law school in Canada, a long time ago! I am a lawyer in Canada and New York (since 2017). I practice law every day for great clients on both sides of the border. I first wrote the ‘Attorney’s Exam’ (i.e. the Essays and Performance Tests) for the California Bar in July 2023. Unsuccessfully.

I was totally bummed. I thought I had prepared well, for 4 straight months, studying and writing essays and performance tests every day, with the Themis prep materials. I had prepared fully and completely, and also thought that I had performed well on the day! When I got my negative result, I wanted specific feedback on why my perfectly good essays failed to make the grade. I found it really hard to find good solid input and guidance. And I also found it really weird that a cottage industry of ‘coaches’ and mentors has sprung up, often charging $10 Thousand bucks, and more. I honestly found the ones I spoke with to be somewhat unhelpful, and this kinda pissed me off.

So I put on my coding hat, and trained up an LLM and a ChatGPT with all the old Calbar Essays and Performance tests, and optimized it with a little code, and training, as a California Bar Essay Assistant. I then uploaded my own essay answers, and started asking questions, further training my model.

In time, and with training, my little AI-project has become quite helpful, and a super powerful assistant. I am using it myself every day. I hope you will benefit from it too! I think of it as an excellent complement to some of the amazing services that are already out there, including BarEssays.com (highly recommended!), Adaptibar (also highly recommended) and the other usual suspects.

I look forward to hearing any comments you may have. We have tons of ideas for improvements, and really want you and your colleagues to do well on the Exam, and to help others wherever possible!

Please be in touch with any feedback through our Contact Us page!