In another spectacular showing, five Jurists bar candidates barged into the top ten of the 2018 bar examinations. The 2018 bar examination was one of the toughest in recent memory with only 1,800 out of 8,158 bar candidates (22%) being granted leave by the Supreme Court en banc to sign the roll of attorneys.
On the afternoon of 4 July 2018, a composite team of the DOJ Cybercrime Division, the NBI Special Action Unit, and the NBI Laoag District Office arrested in Laoag City a third-year law student of Northwestern University, Jake Bryson Dancel, after a successful entrapment operation. Dancel was caught in flagrante selling to the poseur-buyer lecture videos and other review materials of Jurists Bar Review Center, contained in a flash drive, which he had illegally obtained or downloaded without the consent of Jurists.
Preparing for the 2017 Bar Examination requires that bar reviewees should be cognizant of the recent trends and developments in the bar examination, to wit:
