BARGO — The NextGen Bar Audio Course
The NextGen bar exam syllabus, one topic per episode — the rules, the leading doctrines and the traps examiners set, in focused lessons. 11 episodes · ~4 hours · free on every podcast app.
Narrated by an AI voice from a script written and checked by the editors at nextgenbargo.com. Educational content only — not legal advice. BARGO is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NCBE or any bar examining authority.
Season 1 — Civil Procedure
11 episodes · practice this subject
A company writes two paragraphs about a federal statute into its own complaint, and those paragraphs are exactly why the federal court has to hand the case back.
2. Personal Jurisdiction
22 minA blogger in Columbia writes one article about a Franklin restaurant, and a Franklin court gains the power to make her defend it.
A credit union published a legal notice in a newspaper while the borrower's address sat in its own loan file, and that one shortcut cost it the judgment.
4. Erie & State Law
19 minA federal courthouse sits across the street from a state one, and the whole point of Erie is that it should not matter which door your client walks through.
A grove falls at dawn unless a judge acts by midnight, and the whole of Rule 65 lives inside that gap.
6. Pleadings & Rule 11
19 minMaya sues the wrong company on the last day of her limitations period, and the rules hand her a way to win anyway.
A three-car pile-up could become five lawsuits, and one set of rules decides which claims must be made today and which can wait forever.
8. Discovery
19 minA $40,000 collision draws a demand for ten years of records on an entire national fleet, and one word in Rule 26 decides how much of it gets handed over.
Most lawsuits die long before a jury ever sees them, and four motions do the killing.
A restaurant ignores a lawsuit, loses by forfeit, and the winner still cannot touch a dollar.
A trial judge makes a ruling you are certain is wrong, and the law's answer is that you must lose the whole case before anyone upstairs will listen.
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