Built by people who've actually passed the hardest bar exams in the country — to make the essentials you need to pass affordable for everyone, not just the people who can drop $2,000+ on a course.
Bar prep shouldn't cost as much as a semester of tuition. Most courses bundle thousands of dollars of extras around the handful of things that actually move your score: the rules, real practice with explanations, and a way to remember it all under pressure. Rule the Bar strips it down to those essentials and prices it so every examinee can walk in ready.
A non-traditional law student, Rich graduated with honors in 2024, ranked 4th in his class, then passed the February 2025 Florida Bar — scoring in the top 10% nationwide on the MBE. He took on the California Bar, one of the toughest in the country, while working full-time as an attorney — preparing exclusively through rule memorization and multiple-choice practice. It worked: he passed the February 2026 exam, which had a 30.9% pass rate.
Rich built Rule the Bar as the resource he wished he'd had preparing for both bars. He's also the author of Bar Necessities and shares his law-school and bar journey on social media, where his videos have reached millions — and he's been featured on a national ABC/Disney program, local news, and in People and Newsweek.
Blake, a Florida-barred attorney, drives the development side of Rule the Bar — turning the method into the product. His focus is rule recall, exam strategy, and the memory techniques that make legal concepts actually stick, so what you study is what you remember on exam day.
He also serves as General Counsel of Beyel Brothers, Inc. — one of the ten largest crane companies in the United States — where he develops internal tools that turn the company's own data into decisions, drawing on insight across both its legal and financial operations. With an MBA and a strong finance background, he brings that same systems-builder approach to developing Rule the Bar.
A few of his videos reviewing and answering MBE-style and essay questions — with a short writeup of his approach and why it works.
Rich reads a classic MBE trap — a woman shoots her husband six times, but he'd already died of a heart attack seconds earlier. What crime, if any?
Answer: B — attempted murder. The takeaway he drives home: take the facts as given, and don't let factual impossibility talk you out of attempt.
Rich takes a Con Law favorite — the Dormant Commerce Clause — and shows how to turn it into an easy, high-scoring essay with very few rules to memorize:
His essay tip: because the test is all balancing, there's a ton to write about — so walk the steps, do the analysis, and commit to a conclusion. On essays, recognizing the framework and reasoning through it earns the points — the exact conclusion matters less.
A wife wants to testify that her husband told her the neighbor had said "I'm going to blow your head off." Admissible?
Answer: A — hearsay, not within any exception. Takeaway: spot multi-level hearsay and clear every level — don't let a valid party-opponent statement at one layer trick you into admitting the whole thing.