Attorney Jay Chavkin founded Personal Bar Prep, the small group bar review course, and has worked successfully in his bar review course and as a private bar exam tutor since 1995. He has taught students from law schools all over the world, preparing them to pass the California bar exam. His dedicated time with students has enabled everyone from first-time takers from top-tier law schools to students struggling with learning disabilities to multiple-time repeaters to pass the bar exam.

Jay Chavkin earned his B.A. in political science from UC Berkeley and earned his J.D. at Loyola Law School where he published in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.

Jay passed the California bar exam on his first try and became a member of the State Bar of California. He worked as a research attorney for Los Angeles Superior Court, did some civil litigation work, but spent most of his time as an attorney in his private criminal appellate practice and has appeared before the California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He now dedicates all his time to preparing students to take and pass the California bar exam. 

Jay has guest lectured at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles and Irvine University Law School.