ABOUT BARWINNERS-ABOUT SHARI KARNEY

Meet BARWINNERS Creator and Primary Instructor… Shari L. Karney, Esq.

Shari has 26 years experience with one of the highest Bar Exam pass rates in California --*94% first-time takers, *87% repeaters. 

Through her life’s experiences, Shari has learned compassion and understanding. And because of this, she is able to understand each and every student on a personal level.  Where they are now and where they would like to be. Shari makes passing the Bar easy and do-able.  It’s one of the reasons why BARWINNERS’ pass rate is so high.

Shari has dedicated her life to getting you through the Bar Exam and help realizing their dreams.

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. 

Essays are her special strength. She loves showing students how do-able the essays are if they use the right study materials and follow her format. Shari designed and wrote THE APPROACH Book, (click here to sample Approach Book) the foundation of the BARWINNERS/Karney Course and one of the keys to her high pass rate.

BARWINNERS APPROACH BOOK is an answer blueprint to passing the Bar Exam. It is a programmed Approach designed to take you step-by-step through every issue and area tested on the Bar Exam so you will be able to write exceptional answers to essay exams or whatever is presented to you.

Shari started out tutoring bar students one-on-one in 1981 and went on to create BARWINNERS/The Karney Course. Shari has been grading, teaching and a historian of the California Bar since 1981. She has reviewed every question that’s been on the Bar since 1972, and every Performance Test. She has identified what issues the Bar tests most frequently and she knows what the graders are looking for. With compassion, intensity, humor and energy, she is committed to doing whatever it takes to help you reach your goal.

Shari loves teaching. She believes great teachers are born not made. She enjoys getting to know her students and diagnosing what they need to do differently. Shari has the ability to see the greatness within you that other people may not see. She is able to understand your unique and special gift. She believes in you with all her heart. Her goal is to guide you to be what you were born to be. She helps you uncover who and what you are so you can get out of your own way and pass the Bar.

Many of her students have overcome serious obstacles such as learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, English as a second language, physical and medical impediments, and any other difficulties that may get in your way.

Shari Karney teaches Bar Exam writing skills, organization, outlining, structure, format, analysis, and substantively teaches Evidence, Constitutional Law, Torts, Contracts, Real Property, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure and practical Lawyering Skills.

As a Bar Exam Consultant to several major law schools in California, Shari has been able to work with students and faculty with wonderful results. Bar passage rates at these schools have greatly improved.

Shari graduated J.D. Loyola Law School with honors, and was Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from UCLA. She is licensed to practice law in California and before the Supreme Court.

She devotes her time exclusively to BARWINNERS and does not maintain a law practice anymore.

However, when Shari was practicing law, she championed legal reforms on behalf of sexual abuse victims. Her work resulted in innovative laws now on the books in 40 states. She has served as counsel in some of the most controversial issues and cases making news today.

Her legal work was the subject of an NBC Television movie "Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story” which currently airs on Lifetime Television.

She was the lead attorney on Fox TV’s syndicated court show, Power of Attorney, which featured the 10 most skilled and influential trial attorneys in the United States. Shari has appeared on Oprah, ABC Primetime and on Larry King Live and has had her own radio and television shows.

MEDIA/NEWS APPEARANCES:
Appearances on: Oprah, Larry King Live, Peter Jennings World News Report, ABC Primetime with Diane Sawyer, Court TV, The View, The Today Show
Legal Analyst, NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC
Subject of news stories, CNN, KCBS, KNBC, KABC, FOX 11, KABC TalkRadio.

PRINT CREDITS: Subject of numerous articles in the Los Angeles Times Profiles; New York Times Sunday Magazine Section article; TV Guide; Variety Magazine; Los Angeles Times View Section; Los Angeles Daily Journal; California Magazine; Women’s World Magazine and much more.

We are a team, you and I.  We can achieve anything.  

After all, what could be better than this?