Jay Chavkin, Founder and Director

Attorney Jay Chavkin founded Personal Bar Prep over sixteen years ago and has worked successfully with students from law schools all over the country, preparing them to pass the California bar exam.  He lectures on fourteen subjects for the program, but his primary focus is on running the small group sessions with students.  His dedicated time with small groups has enabled everyone from first-time takers from top-tier law schools to students struggling with disabilities to multiple-time repeaters to pass the exam.

Jay Chavkin earned his J.D. at Loyola Law School where he published in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.  He then passed the California bar exam on his first try.  He worked as a research attorney for Los Angeles Superior Court and a civil litigator.  He has an active private appellate practice and has appeared before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.