LEX PARETO NOTES

Vital few . . . Trivial many

" . . . This work is an example of the seed that has been planted that fell on good ground. The authors of this work have not merely opted to listen and wait for somebody else to do something, but rather they were pro-active and decided to take the challenge I had been posing throughout the years. . . "

- PROF. ABELARDO T. DOMONDON
4th Placer, 1985 Bar exams
Author, Bar Exam Reviewer

"Superb!!! One of the best statistical, bar problem-based, codal-based reviewer today!"

-PROF. GAFAR LUTIAN
7th place 1991 Bar exam
Bar exams reviewer



WELCOME TO THE LEX PARETO NOTES BLOGSITE

Hi ! Welcome to the Lex Pareto Notes website.

THE LATEST EDITION IS THE 2014 EDITION (Blue color for Volume 1, Red for Volume 2, Green for Volume 3 and Yellow for Volume 4) AND IS NOW AVAILABLE IN NATIONAL BOOKSTORES NATIONWIDE.

If you are new here, you might want to click on the welcome message first from the book project team leader.You might also want to read the article below to learn more about the Pareto Notes. Information on where to buy the Lex Pareto Notes is provided below. 

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The Lex Pareto Team 
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What started out as a student project is now a popular 4 volume publication. Inspired by the original idea by bar top notcher and bar reviewer Prof. Abelardo Domondon that the bar exams has a "pattern," the Lex Pareto Notes is based on the "Pareto Principle" laid down in the late 1800s by Italian Economist Vilfredo Pareto and popularized by Dr. Joseph Juran in 1941. In 2006 the Pareto principle is once again popularized in legal circles as it's application is found in the preparation for the bar exams.

The four volume work contains, graphs, statistics on how many times a question has been asked on a particular article. It will point out the applicability of the Pareto law in the bar exam questions. It also discusses the doctrines that were asked in the bar exams. The first four volumes corresponds to the subjects that will be given for the 4 Sundays of the bar exams. Volume 1 will be on Political law and Labor law. Volume 2 will be on Civil law and TAXATION. Volume 3 will be about Mercantile law and Criminal law while Volume 4 will be on Remedial law and Legal Ethics and Practical exercises.

So what is the Lex Pareto notes and what is the Pareto principle ? How does this apply to the preparations for the bar exams ?



A famous bar reviewer once said, that only 25 % of the articles in the Civil code are going to be asked in the bar exams. The rest of the 75 % will never be asked or if they will be, they will seldom be asked. He quipped “Magiging ka tawa-tawa ang bar exam pag kinuha sa 75 % sa civil code ang mga questions.”

Prof. Ablerado Domdon said that one of the reason why he topped the bar exams is because he studied the previous bar exam questions and saw a “pattern” in the questions that are being asked. Other bar topnotchers can also attest to this fact. Prof. Domondon is one of the original and strongest proponent of the pattern approach in the reviewing for the bar exams.

This is what the Lex Pareto Notes is all about. The Lex Pareto Notes is based on the foundation laid down by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. If Pareto were alive today he could say that 20 % of the law are the questions that will most likely be asked in the bar exams, while approximately 80 % of it will rarely be asked or never asked at all.

The Pareto principle was originally used and applied by Pareto in his economic models. It was Dr. Joseph Juran who found a “universal” application for the Pareto principle. He can also be credit as being the one who coined the phrase “Pareto principle” or the “Vital few, trivial many” principle.

The 80/20 Rule means that in everything there is a “vital a few” (20 percent) that results in the “trivial many” (80 percent) For Pareto it meant 20 percent of the people owned 80 percent of the wealth. In Juran's work he identified 20 percent of the defects causing 80 percent of the problems Project managers know that about 20 percent of the work consume 80 percent of time and resources. 80 percent of company sales will come from 20 percent of the sales people. 20 percent of the employee will cause 80 percent of the problems. The 80/20 Rule applies to almost anything, from management to science. So why can’t we apply it in preparations for the bar exam?

WHERE TO BUY

The Lex Pareto Notes 2014 edition is now available at all NATIONAL BOOKSTORES Nationwide !!!


In case it is not available in your local National bookstore, please inform them so that they can order it from our publisher. (Sometimes the supply gets depleted fast because of the demand. Your local NBS bookstore needs to be reminded to reorder)

If you would like to purchase it directly from our publisher you can visit the Conanan Educational Supply bookstores (This is the same publisher that prints Professor Domondon's books)or visit their main office at this address:

Conanan Educational Supply
(Besides the McDonalds near the University of the East)
2019 Claro M. Recto Manila
Tel. No: (02)-735-55-82, 735-55-86

(They are just 5 minutes away by foot from the Rex Bookstore in Claro M. Recto, you just walk straight in the direction to the University of the East. They are also about 3 minutes away from the University of the east.)