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BarBri

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Bar exam education company

Barbri (styled BARBRI or barbri) is a company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, whose primary product offering is a bar review course. Because of the general difficulty of state bar exams, a majority of law school graduates choose to take some form of preparation course.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1967Founded1
  • Industrybar examination1
  • HeadquartersDallas1
  • Websitewww.barbri.com
  • Legal formCorporation3
  • LEI254900A3E4Y81UYX71783
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressC/O Corporation Service Company, 19808 Wilmington, United States3
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 49730003

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Barbri (styled BARBRI or barbri) is a company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, whose primary product offering is a bar review course. Because of the general difficulty of state bar exams, a majority of law school graduates choose to take some form of preparation course. Barbri offers law school graduates a six to seven week review course which features lectures by law professors on the seven major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) – torts, contracts, real property, evidence, criminal law, civil procedure and constitutional law – along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state in which the participant plans to take the bar.2

The story

The company's predecessors were founded in the 1950s by William A. Rutter in California and in 1967 by three Chicago attorneys – Richard Conviser, Lewis Collens and Beardsley Ruml. The Southeast was developed by Steven H. Levine, and the Northeast was developed by Stan Chess. In 1974, New York City-based publisher Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich bought San Francisco-based Bay Area Review (BAR) and Chicago-based Bar Review Inc. (BRI) and promptly merged them together. The new subsidiary was officially known as "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal and Professional Publications," but was marketed under the brand name BAR/BRI. William A. Rutter became chairman and CEO.

In 2001, Reed Elsevier (owner of LexisNexis), as part of its acquisition of Harcourt, sold off certain Harcourt assets like BAR/BRI to its rival Thomson Corporation (owner of Westlaw). In April 2011, Barbri was sold to Leeds Equity Partners. In March 2021, Barbri was sold to Francisco Partners.

In July 2022, Barbri acquired Strafford, an online education company for attorneys, accountants, and other professionals.

From Wikipedia’s article on Barbri, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

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