Shari Karney's BARWINNERS' Announces the Launch of an Interactive Virtual Classroom for Law Students Inside Second Life

Santa Monica, CA (PRWeb) March 28, 2007 -- Law students from all over the United States will be able to create a membership in Second Life (www.secondlife.com) Students will be able to enter the BARWINNERS' virtual classroom where Shari Karney, ESQ. will provide personalized training on the secrets of law school success. Each student will have their own avatar and be given 5,000 "Lindens" to purchase study aids and clothing to personalize their own avatar. The Linden Dollar is an "in-world" currency used by Second Life buyers and sellers to provide goods and services.

The course is entitled "The Secrets of Law School Success - How to be in the top 10% of your class so you can land a top law firm job." This virtual course will show law students how to make their hard work pay off and how to spend less time to receive better results. The top law firms only hire the top 10%. By using Second Life as the technology and teaching platform for the course we will be offering a very realistic course interaction between Shari Karney and her students.

The course will feature topics like how to write a top law school essay exam, how to wow your law school professor and how to beat out the competition. Students will also learn tips to scoring high on multiple-choice exams.

Second Life currently boasts over 4,000,000 residents, with an average of 30,000 members online at any given time.

Says Shari Karney of BARWINNERS, "This is the first time law students can learn on a national level the secret to law school success incorporating the advantages of remote learning via the leading virtual reality platform, Second Life. We bring our 25 years of real world experience helping law students and bar students master the skills necessary to be a successful lawyer. This includes writing skills, test prep skills, time management, focused study skills and a host of other tools they need to succeed."

Second Life was developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, a privately held company founded in 1999 to create a revolutionary new form of shared 3-D entertainment. It offers a collaborative, immersive, and open-ended entertainment experience where residents can create and inhabit a virtual environment of their own design.

BARWINNERS' has 25 years experience with one of the highest Bar Exam pass rates -- 94% first-time takers, 87% repeaters -- for one of the hardest Bar Exams in the country, California. Shari Karney, ESQ. started out tutoring bar students one-on-one in 1981 and went on to create BARWINNERS/The Karney Course. Over the past 25 years, thousands of students have passed the Bar taking the BARWINNERS/The Karney Course.

Shari Karney was the lead attorney on the Fox Networks syndicated reality show, Power of Attorney. She has appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live, and a TV movie was made about her life on NBC, currently airing on Lifetime called The Shari Karney Story. Shari has been a legal expert for such celebrity cases as Michael Jackson's Child Molestation Trial, Robert Blake's Murder Trial, and O.J. Simpson's Murder Trial.

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