MD BAR Study Guide 2026
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📋 MD BAR Exam Format at a Glance
📚 MD BAR Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample MD BAR Questions & Answers
1. Under Maryland Rule of Professional Conduct 1.8(a), before entering a business transaction with a client, a lawyer must:
Rule 1.8(a) requires fair and reasonable terms disclosed in writing, advisement that the client may seek independent counsel, and the client's informed written consent.
2. In an essay answer, what does the 'A' in the IRAC structure require you to do?
Application means analyzing how the legal rule operates on the fact pattern's specific facts.
3. In a murder trial, the prosecution offers evidence that the defendant previously committed an unrelated burglary to show the defendant is a criminal by nature. Is the evidence admissible?
FRE 404(b) prohibits using other crimes or bad acts to prove character in order to show action in conformity, though such evidence may be admitted for non-propensity purposes like motive, intent, or identity.
4. A tenant with two years left on a lease transfers "all of my remaining interest" in the leasehold to a friend. The friend fails to pay rent. Can the landlord recover rent directly from the friend?
Transferring the entire remaining term is an assignment, creating privity of estate that makes the assignee liable for rent.
5. Under Maryland law, when does child support generally terminate?
Maryland support continues to 18, extended while the child remains in high school up to age 19.
6. Hearsay evidence in a Maryland administrative hearing:
In Maryland administrative proceedings, reliable and probative hearsay may be admitted and may alone support a factual finding.