Obviously, you’ve got to know a lot of black letter law to pass the California Bar Examination. “Law Knowledge” is more subtle than the ability to recite long and complicated passages of law like a trained parrot.
You also have to be able recognize the relationship between issues, both within a subject area (e.g. torts) and between multiple subjects (e.g. torts and real property and Constitutional law).
Finally, you have to be able to explain how the legal result arises from a specific set of facts.
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