We are proud to present our Bar Exam Team:

Meet BARWINNERS Exam Experts …

Our Professors

Our professors are experts in helping you PASS the Bar Exam.

Because we believe so strongly in personalized attention and assistance, every one on the BARWINNERS TEAM, from Shari Karney to our faculty and staff, are personally available to you by e-mail and/or phone to answer your questions.

We are here to help you get through this stressful time in your life easily and successfully.

BARWINNERS' Faculty and Staff have been helping enrollees pass the Caifornia Bar since 1981 using compassion, motivation and "tough love."

Meet BARWINNERS Creator and Owner…

Shari Karney, Esq. Creator--BARWINNERS

Through her life’s experiences, Shari has learned compassion and understanding. And because of this, she is able to understand students on a personal level so they can pass the Bar Exam more easily.  It’s one of the reasons why BARWINNERS’ pass rate is so high. 

With her good and caring heart, fiery teaching style, and energetic motivating personality, Shari and the BARWINNERS' team will get you successfully through the Bar Exam. You can trust us.

Shari has been helping people pass the California Bar Exam for 26 years. She is the author of the BARWINNERS’ APPROACH BOOK, The “Bar Exam Bible,” and all of BARWINNERS books and materials. She is an expert on the California Bar Exam.

She has taught Professional Responsibility, Evidence, Constitutional Law, Torts, Contracts, Remedies, Community Property, Legal Writing and Analysis, and Lawyering Skills, for BARWINNERS and for law schools in California.

A television movie was made about Shari’s life, called Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story. She has been a legal analyst on television. Shari has been interviewed by Oprah and appeared on Larry King Live, ABC Primetime, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Journal, Glamour Magazine, and hundreds of others. Shari is one of the nations 15 most notable attorneys that led to her being selected as talent for Twentieth Century Fox Televisions’ syndicated court show, Power of Attorney.

Shari was a civil litigator for 10 years representing victims of child sexual abuse. She changed the law so that victims now have rights. Once the law changed in California, 41 other states followed suit. Shari is one of the reasons the Catholic Church is being held accountable.

Today, Shari focuses her time, energy and attention on BARWINNERS’. She loves teaching and working with Bar Students.

BARWINNERS is thrilled to have Shari Karney as our Team Leader. She is an inspiration to us all. Ater all, what could be better than this.

Meet BARWINNERS Performance Exam Expert…

Professor Christine Kelton

Professor Kelton is an expert on the Performance Exam and knows what the Bar graders are looking for. Professor Kelton has been invited to and actively participates in live grading calibration sessions with the Bar Examiners who grade your Performance Exams. She has been able to observe first-hand how the California Bar Exam grades and evaulates your Performance Tests.

As a result of her experience, Professor Kelton brings a specialized knowledge of the skills required to succeed on the Performance Exam.

Her expertise is in Performance Exam techniques, strategies, and Legal Writing. As a full time Legal Writing Professor at Whittier Law School for the past twelve years, Professor Kelton teaches students the skills essential to passing the Performance Exam. In addition to the Performance Exam, Professor Kelton also teaches Legal Writing, Legal Research, Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation, and Professional Skills.

In addition to her academic expertise, Professor Kelton practiced law in Los Angeles and Orange County. Professor Kelton worked as a trial lawyer in both the Los Angeles and Orange County Public Defender’s Offices. She also has extensive civil litigation experience specializing in defending mental health professionals.

Combining her academic expertise with her professional experience, Professor Kelton will show you exactly how to succeed on the Performance Exam.

She will show you how to read, organize, outline and write a passing Performance Exam in the allotted three hours. Unlike other Bar Performance instructors who tell you “there is no way to get better at the Performance Test,” we show you exactly how to pass the Performance Tests on the Bar Exam. We care and are here for you.

BARWINNERS is proud to have Professor Christine Kelton teach our Performance Exam Workshops.

Professor Paul Fredrix

Professor Fredrix is extremely familiar with the MBE fact patterns, nuances, tricks, and red herrings. A graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia undergraduate, Professor Fredrix has helped thousands of BARWINNERS' students dramatically increase their MBE scores from raw scores of 115 and 120 to MBE SCORES OF 143, 145, 151 and even 155!

He is an expert on the MBE and will show you how to immediately eliminate two of the four choices and then, out of the remaining two, how to easily pick the correct answer.

Professor Fredrix also lectures BARWINNERS' students on the substantive law for every Multistate subjects while going over practice MBE questions. He is thorough and precise.

Professor Fredrix has been teaching and privately tutoring Bar students for the Multistate for the past 20 years.

BARWINNERS is privileged to have Professor Fredrix teaching our Multistate (MBE) Workshop for the last 8 years.


Meet BARWINNERS Essay Experts…

Professors from Loyola Law School, USC, Whittier, UCLA…

Our team of professors (including Shari Karney, Esq.) are cherry-picked for their outstanding teaching skills and knowledge of the California Bar Exam. We only select the best for you. These instructors are usually "Teacher of the Year", "Voted School's Most Outstanding Instructor" with the highest student evaluations at their respective law school.

Our faculty are EXPERTS ON THE CALIFORNIA BAR EXAM including substantive knowledge, as well as experienced in teaching you the writing and organizational skills necessary to get a passing score. Compassionately understanding what you are going through in preparing for the Bar Exam is essential to be a part of the BARWINNERS' team.

BARWINNERS is delighted these Professors will be teaching you to pass the essay portion of the Bar Exam.

Meet one of BARWINNERS' Secret Weapons…

Leonard Ludovico, "Bar Exam Fix-It Specialist"

Meet one of BARWINNERS’ SECRET WEAPONS… Leonard Ludovico, "The Bar Exam Fix-It-Specialist" and Hypnotherapist.

Leonard is a highly trained stress management expert with 16 years experience. He works with BARWINNERS' students ensuring their Bar Exam success. Since Leonard has started working with us, our pass rate has increased 25%.

Whether a repeater or first time taker, Leonard believes, you need to know what to fix in order to pass. And sometimes it’s more than how much law you know, your writing or memorization abilities. Leonard has helped our students improve their memory and concentration, reduce anxiety, get rid of test-taking jitters, and other stress-related issues such as panic attacks and sleep problems.

Leonard can help you pass the bar easily. He believes that you need to first understand it, before you can fix it.

BARWINNERS is blessed to have Leonard Ludovico on our team helping students deal with the stress of taking the California Bar Exam.

Contacting our Expert Team:

Once you are enrolled in BARWINNERS all of our faculty are available to answer your questions by e-mail or phone. We will be happy to provide you with information on how to contact our team.