Building Bar Skills Initiative

Led by our Center for Legal Education Excellence^®, this initiative represents a significant research and development investment into future methods of bar preparation.  

Through its broader Building Bar Skills Initiative, AccessLex Institute is expanding its existing bar preparation offerings by actively working to bridge the gap between standard methods of legal education and future approaches to legal training.

AccessLex Institute’s Bar Skills Modules are a series of easily adapted Modules, aligned with bar-tested doctrinal subjects. Bar Skills Modules introduce law students to the skills tested on the NextGen bar exam through formative assessments and exercises. Developed by Module Building Teams comprised of law school skills and doctrinal staff and faculty, each set of Modules was utilized in a classroom setting and updated based on law student response and performance. Each Bar Skills Module set includes associated skills-based student learning outcomes, professor’s notes, assessment exercises and rubrics, and model answers to support easy adoption by law faculty and instructors.

Bar Skills Modules are available at no cost to faculty and instructors at AccessLex Member Law Schools.

Request access to the Bar Skills Modules.

Hear from faculty drafters about the potential to leverage these free Modules to achieve your formative assessment goals across the curriculum.