<p>if you go to law school at say, BU, does that help you prepare for being admitted to the MA state bar?? or is that a whole other issue that you have to tackle once you graduate from law school? say i want to live and work in Florida to be close to relatives after i graduate from BU, do i have to take a prep class of some sorts to become acquainted with Florida law? just curious as to how law school prepares you for the state bar, because at the end of the day, the state bar is what ya need.</p>
<p>It depends on the state. Many states use a bar examiantin that does not require knowledge of much law specific to that state. Some states, however, do require some specific knowledge. Law schools in most states will have courses in ___ State practice or procedure, but they might be electives. In my opinion if you plan to take the bar exam in a state that requires a knowledge of state-specific law or procedural rules, you should take such a course, even though it might not be very exciting. Otherwise you will have to learn all of it in a bar review course that you will take in preparing for the bar exam.</p>
<p>dadofsam is correct that you can often find a law school course that teaches state specific laws (though my law school certainly didn't offer any such class), but you can also choose to do like thousands of other law students do each year and learn what you need to know for the bar exam from a preparation course like BarBri. In a state that covers much more than just the multistate topics (torts, real property, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, contracts and evidence), it would actually be unusual for someone to have studied in depth every topic covered by the bar exam. Even if one had actually studied each of the bar exam topics in law school, often the bar exam tests those topics and expects different answers to be given than what you may have learned in law school. </p>
<p>A lot of first time learning typically takes place in that all important bar review course!</p>
<p>Therefore, my answer would be that no, it doesn't matter in what state you attend law school in terms of preparation for the bar exam.</p>