Terms of Service

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Bar Exam Command Center, accessible at barexamapp.czerwonkalegal.com, together with its companion applications including the Law School Resource Center at lawschoolhub.czerwonkalegal.com and other educational tools we operate (collectively, the "Platform"), all of which are operated by Czerwonka Educational Consulting, LLC ("CEC," "we," "us," or "our").

By creating an account on the Platform or by using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Platform.

CEC is a Delaware limited liability company with a registered address in Delaware. The Platform is operated by Christopher Czerwonka, J.D., a licensed attorney admitted in the State of New York.

2. Platform Access and Fees

The Platform is in active development. Features, content, performance, and operational practices change over time, sometimes with limited notice. Occasional bugs, downtime, content gaps, and feature changes are inherent to a platform that continues to be built and refined.

The Platform is not sold separately and cannot be purchased on its own. Access is provided to students as part of a preparation package under a separate Live Services engagement agreement, within which $500 of the package price is allocated to Platform access, and to the beta-period users described immediately below, whose access is complimentary. There is no standalone paid Platform tier.

Any user who registered for the Platform during the beta period—that is, before July 1, 2026—will retain free, perpetual access to the Platform as a thank-you for helping CEC build and refine it during that period. This complimentary beta-period access does not expire and is not contingent on any future payment. Neither the retirement of the beta designation nor any change in how Platform access is provided has any effect on the access of beta-period users. This grant is retrospective and vested; it survives amendment of these Terms.

Separately, paid services offered by CEC, including live teaching engagements, tutoring, essay review consultations, and similar services (collectively, "Live Services"), are provided under separate engagement arrangements and are not governed by these Terms. Any payment made to CEC for Live Services is consideration solely for Live Services rendered or to be rendered.

CEC reserves the right at any time, with or without notice, to add, remove, or modify Platform features; to change content; to suspend or terminate the Platform in whole or in part; and to discontinue offering the Platform at no charge. CEC will use reasonable efforts to provide notice of material changes affecting active users.

3. Eligibility and Accounts

3.1 Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account on the Platform. By creating an account, you represent that you meet this requirement and that you are using the Platform for lawful purposes related to your own bar examination preparation, pre-law readiness, or continuing legal education.

3.2 Account Registration

To use the Platform's features, you must create an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information when registering and to keep that information updated. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

3.3 Account Security

Notify us immediately at chris@czerwonkalegal.com if you suspect unauthorized access to your account. CEC is not responsible for losses you incur as a result of someone else using your credentials, whether or not you authorized the use, except to the extent that those losses are caused by our gross negligence or willful misconduct.

3.4 One Account Per Person

You may not maintain multiple accounts on the Platform. The Platform's adaptive practice engine relies on a continuous record of your responses to calibrate your ability estimate, and multiple accounts undermine this calibration.

4. Acceptable Use

4.1 Permitted Use

You may use the Platform for your personal, non-commercial bar examination preparation, pre-law readiness studies, or continuing legal education. You may not use the Platform for any other commercial purpose without our prior written consent.

4.2 Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

• Reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or create derivative works of Platform content (including practice questions, explanations, lectures, outlines, and other materials) except as expressly permitted by these Terms;
• Use automated tools, scrapers, or bots to access the Platform or extract content from it;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code of the Platform, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• Share your account credentials with another person, or permit another person to use your account;
• Use the Platform to harass, threaten, or harm any other person, including other users, Platform staff, or third parties;
• Submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, fraudulent, or that infringes the rights of others;
• Interfere with or disrupt the Platform, its servers, or its networks;
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the Platform, to other users' accounts, or to any related systems;
• Use the Platform in violation of any applicable law or regulation, or in violation of professional responsibility rules applicable to law students or attorneys.

4.3 Bar Examination Integrity

The Platform contains original practice questions and content. Some questions and content are designed to mirror the format and difficulty of the actual bar examination, but they are not actual bar examination questions and they are not based on confidential or unauthorized materials from the National Conference of Bar Examiners or any state bar examination authority.

You agree not to use the Platform during the actual administration of a bar examination, MPRE, or other licensure examination, and not to attempt to use the Platform to circumvent any bar examination integrity rule.

You acknowledge that the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE) and state bar examination authorities impose content-security obligations on examinees that continue after the examination administration ends. These obligations include, without limitation, prohibitions on disclosing, reproducing, or transmitting actual examination content (including MBE questions, MEE prompts, MPT materials, and MPRE questions), whether verbatim or in substance, whether from memory or from any other source, before, during, or after the examination, and regardless of whether you have received your examination results.

You agree that you will not submit, type, paste, dictate, upload, or otherwise transmit to the Platform any content that you know or reasonably should know was, is, or contains an actual bar examination question, MPRE question, or other licensure examination content. This prohibition applies in full during the period after you have sat for an examination, including while awaiting results, and continues indefinitely. Incidental memorization of examination content does not relieve you of this obligation; if you recall such content, you must not enter it into the Platform under any circumstance, including in the form of essay practice, free-response inputs, feedback prompts, suggestion forms, or any other Platform interface.

If CEC has reason to believe that content you have submitted to the Platform may include actual examination material, CEC may remove the content, suspend or terminate your account, and take such other action as CEC determines appropriate. CEC may, but is not obligated to, notify the relevant bar examination authority. You acknowledge that violations of NCBE or state bar content-security obligations may result in serious consequences for you, including revocation of bar admission, character and fitness consequences, and other discipline, and that those consequences are entirely your responsibility.

5. Intellectual Property

5.1 Platform Content

All content provided by CEC through the Platform, including practice questions, answer choices, explanations, distractor analyses, lectures, outlines, study materials, the score prediction engine, the adaptive practice engine, the user interface, and all related software and design, is the property of CEC or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.

CEC grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use Platform content for your personal bar examination preparation, pre-law readiness studies, or continuing legal education purposes. This license does not permit any of the prohibited uses listed in Section 4.2.

Duration of the license — package students. For a student whose access was granted with a preparation package, this license is not revocable at will, and runs for the examination cycle for which the student was registered at the time of purchase, together with any later cycle in which the student is exercising the Pass Guarantee. A successful Pass Guarantee claim restores access for the retake cycle at no further charge, including where access had previously ended on a refund and the allocated $500 was returned to the student; CEC does not re-charge for Platform access on a guaranteed retake. The license does not extend to any other examination cycle. Within those cycles CEC may revoke it only (a) for a violation of Section 4, or (b) where the student has requested a refund of the package price, in which case access ends because the refund returns the amount allocated to it.

Duration of the license — beta-period users. For a beta-period user holding the perpetual grant described in Section 2, this license is not revocable at will and does not expire. That grant is retrospective and vested; the cycle limits in the preceding paragraph do not apply to it and nothing in these Terms reduces it.

Everyone else, and common terms. For any other user, the license is revocable and continues during the term of the account. Every license under this Section ends if CEC discontinues the Platform entirely, as described in Section 2. This Section controls over any inconsistent statement elsewhere in these Terms.

5.2 Your Submissions

You retain ownership of the written submissions you create on the Platform, including your essay (MEE) and performance task (MPT) responses, your responses to feedback prompts, your testimonials (if any), and other content you submit ("Your Submissions").

By submitting Your Submissions to the Platform, you grant CEC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to:

• Store, reproduce, and display Your Submissions to you through the Platform;
• Process Your Submissions through the AI feedback drafting pipeline described in our Privacy Policy;
• Allow Christopher Czerwonka, J.D., to review, annotate, and provide feedback on Your Submissions in his capacity as your instructor;
• Use de-identified and aggregated information derived from Your Submissions to evaluate and improve the Platform.

This license is limited to the purposes above. CEC will not publish Your Submissions publicly, will not provide them to other users, and will not use them for any commercial purpose other than the operation and improvement of the Platform. Without limiting the foregoing, CEC will not use Your Submissions as student-facing exemplars except with your express opt-in consent under Section 5.5. The license terminates when you delete the relevant submission or when your account is deleted, except that aggregated and de-identified information may be retained as described in our Privacy Policy.

5.3 Testimonials

If you submit a testimonial through the Platform's alumni tier, you grant CEC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to use, reproduce, display, and distribute your testimonial in connection with the marketing and operation of the Platform and CEC's practice. CEC will not publish your testimonial without administrative approval, and you may withdraw your testimonial at any time by contacting us at chris@czerwonkalegal.com, after which CEC will cease using the testimonial in new materials.

5.4 Feedback and Suggestions

If you provide CEC with feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Platform, you grant CEC a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that feedback for any purpose without compensation to you. This provision is intended to allow CEC to act on user feedback freely, not to claim ownership of users' independent intellectual property.

5.5 Use of Outstanding Submissions as Exemplars (Opt-In)

From time to time, Christopher Czerwonka may identify a particularly excellent written submission (such as an MEE or MPT response) that, in de-identified form, could serve as an instructive exemplar for other students. CEC will use Your Submissions as exemplars ONLY with your express, opt-in consent obtained on a per-submission basis.

If Christopher wishes to use your work as an exemplar, he will contact you directly with a description of the proposed use. Your consent is entirely voluntary. You may decline without providing a reason and without any adverse consequence to your standing on the Platform, your relationship with Christopher, your access to live teaching engagements with CEC, or any other aspect of your engagement with CEC. CEC will not infer consent from silence, from continued use of the Platform, or from any other passive conduct; consent must be affirmative.

If you consent, you grant CEC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to reproduce, display, and distribute the de-identified version of the consented submission for educational purposes connected to the Platform and CEC's practice. CEC will de-identify the submission before any use as an exemplar, including removal of your name and any other personally identifying information that you have not separately consented to attribute. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting Christopher at chris@czerwonkalegal.com, after which CEC will cease using the exemplar in new materials, although CEC cannot recall copies that have already been distributed.

6. AI Processing and Attorney Review

The Platform uses AI assistance in two principal ways:

• Many practice questions on the Platform are generated with AI assistance under the direction and review of Christopher Czerwonka, J.D. AI-generated content is reviewed before publication, and Christopher retains full editorial authority over what appears on the Platform.
• Feedback on essay (MEE) and performance task (MPT) submissions is drafted by AI and may be made visible to you soon after submission as preliminary feedback. Any AI-drafted feedback that has not yet been reviewed by Christopher is clearly marked as preliminary and is not the final feedback on your submission. Christopher reads every submission personally and will provide his own feedback, which may confirm, modify, expand, or replace the preliminary AI-drafted feedback in whole or in part. Christopher's personal feedback is the authoritative feedback for your submission.

CEC believes that combining transparent AI-drafted preliminary feedback (which gives you something to work with quickly) with personal attorney review and authoritative feedback (which ensures every submission receives professional judgment) represents the responsible application of AI in legal education. The Platform is not a substitute for the judgment of a licensed attorney in matters involving your own legal interests.

7. Important Disclaimers

7.1 Not Legal Advice

Content on the Platform, including practice questions, explanations, model answers, lectures, outlines, and AI-drafted feedback, is provided for educational purposes only. It is not legal advice and does not establish an attorney-client relationship between you and Christopher Czerwonka, CEC, or any other person. For legal advice about your particular situation, including questions about your character and fitness for bar admission, consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

7.2 No Guarantee of Bar Passage

The Platform is a study tool. CEC does not guarantee, represent, or warrant that use of the Platform will result in your passing the bar examination, the MPRE, or any other examination. Bar examination outcomes depend on many factors, including your prior preparation, your effort, your jurisdiction's standards, and circumstances on the day of the examination. CEC's role is limited to providing study materials and educational support. The "Pass Guarantee" offered with certain tutoring packages is a limited contractual remedy—a further round of tutoring at no additional charge for a qualifying student who does not pass—provided under the separate Live Services engagement agreement, which is published in full. It is not a representation or warranty that any student will pass any examination. Its qualifying conditions are recited publicly at czerwonkalegal.com/services, and are intended to state the engagement agreement accurately rather than to summarise it loosely. The remedy is a single further round of tutoring, which may be used in connection with any future administration and is subject to no deadline for its use. Two different periods are involved and should not be confused: there is no deadline on using the further round, but the student must give notice of the claim within the period the engagement agreement specifies — fifteen days of the official release of results, under Section 10.3 of that agreement. That further round does not itself carry the remedy again.

7.3 Educational Purpose Only

The Platform addresses bar examination preparation. It does not address character and fitness, application process logistics, ADA accommodation request procedures with bar authorities, or other non-substantive aspects of bar admission. For guidance on those matters, consult your jurisdiction's bar admission authority and, where appropriate, a licensed attorney.

7.4 Accuracy and Completeness

CEC takes care to ensure that Platform content is accurate and reflects current law. However, the law changes, and content may occasionally contain errors or become outdated. You agree that you are responsible for verifying any legal proposition before relying on it for any purpose other than your own study.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CEC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ACCURACY OF DATA.

CEC DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

9. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CEC AND ITS PRINCIPALS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND AFFILIATES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, WHETHER ARISING UNDER CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF CEC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

CEC'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE PLATFORM OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($500.00), BEING THE AMOUNT ALLOCATED TO PLATFORM ACCESS WITHIN A PREPARATION PACKAGE AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2. THIS CAP APPLIES TO ALL PLATFORM USERS, INCLUDING BETA-PERIOD USERS WHOSE ACCESS IS COMPLIMENTARY. THIS LIMITATION CONCERNS THE PLATFORM ONLY. IT DOES NOT LIMIT, WAIVE, OR OTHERWISE AFFECT ANY REMEDY AVAILABLE UNDER A SEPARATE LIVE SERVICES ENGAGEMENT AGREEMENT, INCLUDING ANY PASS GUARANTEE OR REFUND TERMS SET OUT IN THAT AGREEMENT.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. To the extent that any such limitation is prohibited, CEC's liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CEC and its principals, employees, agents, and affiliates from any claims, losses, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use of the Platform in violation of these Terms; (b) Your Submissions, to the extent they violate the rights of any third party; or (c) your violation of any law or regulation in connection with your use of the Platform.

11. Termination

11.1 By You

You may terminate your account at any time by contacting us at chris@czerwonkalegal.com. Termination will result in deletion of your account and associated data as described in our Privacy Policy.

11.2 By CEC

Subject to the duration limits in Section 5.1, which control over this Section, CEC may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms, conduct that we determine to be harmful to other users or to CEC, prolonged inactivity, or discontinuation of the Platform. For a package student or a beta-period user, prolonged inactivity is not a ground for termination: access granted under Section 5.1 is not forfeited by not using it. We will use reasonable efforts to provide notice except where notice would be impractical or where immediate action is required to protect the Platform or other users. Suspension or termination of your Platform account by CEC under this Section does not create any refund obligation under these Terms, and does not affect any separate engagement for Live Services as described in Section 2 — including any refund, deferral, or guarantee available under that engagement agreement, which is unaffected by action taken under this Section. Nor does it affect the vested perpetual access granted to beta-period users under Section 2.

11.3 Effect of Termination

Upon termination, your right to access and use the Platform ends. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.4, 12, and 13.6) will survive termination.

11.4 Refunds

The Platform is not sold separately, so there is no standalone Platform purchase to refund. Refunds, deferrals, and guarantees relating to a preparation package — including the portion of the package price allocated to Platform access under Section 2 — are governed solely by the separate Live Services engagement agreement, which sets out its own payment, refund, deferral, and guarantee terms and is published in full at czerwonkalegal.com/agreement. Its principal refund and guarantee terms are also recited in plain English at czerwonkalegal.com/services, so that both the summary and the agreement itself can be read before purchase. CEC does not claim any priority for the engagement agreement over that public statement: the two are intended to say the same thing, and any divergence is an error to be corrected rather than a conflict to be resolved against the student. In outline, and without limiting that agreement: students do not prepay for teaching. $500 of the package price is payable at the start, which unlocks Platform access immediately and is credited against the earliest hours delivered; every session after that is invoiced only once it has been delivered, up to the package price for the tier purchased, which operates as a ceiling. A refund is therefore available at any time, is not cut off after any particular session, and returns whatever the student has paid in excess of the hours actually delivered — which is why Platform access ends when a refund is requested, as provided in Section 5.1, the $500 allocated under Section 2 being the amount principally at stake. A student who simply stops booking owes nothing further. Taking a refund does not forfeit the Pass Guarantee where its conditions were met. It reduces the scale of the remedy to the hours the student retained, and does not require the student to pay again for Platform access if the guarantee is later claimed. Beta-period users receive Platform access at no charge and have made no payment to refund; nothing in this Section affects the perpetual access granted to them under Section 2.

The Command Center Satisfaction and Quality Guarantee described in earlier versions of these Terms applied to standalone paid Platform access, which CEC no longer offers. Any user who purchased standalone Platform access while that offering was available retains every right that guarantee gave them, on its original terms, notwithstanding its removal here.

12. Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

12.1 Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. CEC has selected Delaware law because CEC is a Delaware limited liability company. That choice does not displace, and is not intended to displace, any consumer protection that the law of the jurisdiction in which you reside makes non-waivable; where such a protection applies, it applies notwithstanding this Section.

12.2 Informal Resolution

Before initiating arbitration or any formal legal action, you agree to first contact us at chris@czerwonkalegal.com with a description of the dispute and your desired resolution. We will attempt in good faith to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. This informal step is a condition precedent to arbitration under Section 12.3.

12.3 Binding Individual Arbitration

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or to the Platform that is not resolved under Section 12.2 will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis, administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

What it costs you to bring a claim. CEC will pay all filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees that exceed what you would have paid to file the same claim in the court of the jurisdiction where you reside. You are never required to spend more to arbitrate than you would have spent to sue.

Where it happens. You may elect to participate by telephone or videoconference. If you elect an in-person hearing, it will be held no further from you than the federal judicial district in which you reside. You will not be required to travel to Delaware, or anywhere else CEC finds convenient, to be heard.

What the arbitrator can do. The arbitrator may award any relief a court could award on the same individual claim, including any remedy available under a separate Live Services engagement agreement, and may determine their own jurisdiction and the arbitrability of a claim.

What is carved out. Either party may instead bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and electing to do so is not a breach of this Section. Either party may also seek injunctive relief in court to protect intellectual property or to prevent unauthorised access to the Platform, without first arbitrating.

12.4 No Class Actions

Any dispute will be resolved on an individual basis. You agree that you will not bring or participate in any class, consolidated, collective, or representative action against CEC.

This waiver is part of, and inseparable from, the agreement to arbitrate in Section 12.3. If it is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim is severed and proceeds in court under Section 12.5, and the remaining claims continue in arbitration. No class, consolidated, collective, or representative proceeding will be arbitrated under any circumstances.

12.5 Where Court Proceedings Are Brought

Where these Terms permit a court proceeding — to compel arbitration, to enter or vacate an award, to seek the injunctive relief described in Section 12.3, to bring an individual small-claims action, or to hear a claim severed under Section 12.4 — that proceeding will be brought in the state or federal courts of the jurisdiction in which you reside at the time the proceeding is commenced. CEC consents to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts and waives any objection to them, including on grounds of forum non conveniens. CEC will bring any claim against you in those same courts. This Section runs in both directions and gives CEC no forum it does not also give you.

13. General Provisions

13.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and CEC regarding your use of the Platform. They supersede any prior or contemporaneous understandings or agreements concerning the Platform, except that they do not modify or supersede separate written engagement agreements between you and CEC governing paid services.

From time to time, CEC may make specific features, programs, or invitation-only previews of features not yet released for general availability accessible to selected users through the Platform. Where CEC presents supplemental terms and conditions of participation for such a feature, program, or preview—for example, through an in-Platform modal that prompts you to agree or decline—those supplemental terms apply to your participation in addition to these Terms, and the privacy-facing implications described in any such supplemental terms are incorporated by reference into our Privacy Policy. Participation is voluntary; if you decline the supplemental terms, you simply will not have access to that feature, program, or preview, and your access to the generally available Platform is unaffected. In the event of a direct conflict between supplemental terms and these Terms as to the specific feature, program, or preview they govern, the supplemental terms control for that limited purpose; in all other respects these Terms remain in full force.

13.2 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full effect. The invalid or unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable while preserving its intent.

13.3 Waiver

Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of our right to enforce that provision later or to enforce any other provision.

13.4 Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. CEC may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to the protections described in our Privacy Policy.

13.5 Modifications

CEC may modify these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will notify users by email and by posting the updated Terms on the Platform with a revised effective date. For users with active accounts, continued use of the Platform after the effective date of updated Terms constitutes acceptance of the changes. If you do not accept updated Terms, your remedy is to stop using the Platform and request account deletion.

13.6 Notices and Service of Process

14. Contact Information

Questions about these Terms may be directed to: