Effective Date: June 1, 2026
These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the LexBar online bar-preparation course and the website located at virginiabarexamtutor.com (collectively, the “Service”). The Service is operated by Brightlex LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“LexBar,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
Please read these Terms carefully. They include a binding individual arbitration provision and a class-action waiver (Section 16) that affect your legal rights. Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. By acknowledging these Terms in any manner, including by making a purchase or by visiting or using the Service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
1. Who We Are; Educational Services Only
LexBar is an independent, private company that offers educational services to individuals preparing for the Virginia Bar Examination. No part of the LexBar program — including its content, materials, and any communications with LexBar staff or instructors — constitutes legal advice or the provision of legal services. All communication is strictly for educational purposes in preparing students to take the Virginia Bar Examination.
The opinions expressed on the Service are the personal opinions of the authors. LexBar has no official connection to, affiliation with, or endorsement by the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, the Virginia State Bar, the Texas Board of Law Examiners, or any other agency, department, board, or organization.
2. Eligibility and Permitted Use
You must be at least 18 years old to use the Service. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old.
You agree and represent that you are studying to take the Virginia Bar Examination and that you are enrolling in LexBar solely for that purpose, and not for any other purpose. You agree that you will not use or enroll in LexBar for any commercial, research, or marketing purpose for yourself or for any third party, whether individual or corporate. You agree to use the LexBar course materials solely for your own personal study during the period that your enrollment is active.
3. The Course and Plans
LexBar is offered in several plans that provide differing levels of access to course features, which may include practice essays, model answers, video explanations, quizzes, flashcards, an AI study tool, expert essay grading, and live online classes. The specific features included in each plan, and the price of each plan, are described at the point of purchase. We may add, modify, or discontinue features, plans, or materials at any time.
Each enrollment provides access for a fixed term of 183 days (approximately six months), beginning on the date of your purchase. The Service is self-paced.
4. Payment; One-Time Purchase; No Auto-Renewal
LexBar enrollments are a one-time purchase. We do not automatically renew enrollments and we do not engage in any recurring or automatic billing. You will never be charged again unless you affirmatively and manually purchase a new term of access. When your access expires, you must re-enroll at the then-current price to regain access.
All purchases are processed by our third-party payment processor. Prices are stated at the point of purchase and are exclusive of any applicable taxes unless otherwise stated.
5. Refund Policy
If you are not satisfied with the program, we will refund your purchase if you request a refund within the first 30 days after your purchase date. After that 30-day period, there are no refunds for any reason. To request a refund, email support@virginiabarexamtutor.com.
There are no refunds, discounts, or free re-takes for students who do not pass the bar examination, and no refunds or discounts for re-enrolling in LexBar.
6. Chargebacks
If you initiate a chargeback, payment dispute, or reversal with your bank or card issuer after the 30-day refund period described in Section 5 has passed, or in lieu of requesting a refund through us as provided in these Terms, you agree that doing so constitutes a material breach of these Terms. In that event, we may immediately suspend or terminate your access to the Service, and we reserve all rights and remedies available to us, including the right to recover amounts owed and related costs.
7. Access Term, Expiration, and Deletion of Progress
LexBar agrees to provide you with reasonable access to its online tools and information to assist you in studying for the Virginia Bar Examination during your 183-day enrollment period. When your access expires, your work and progress in the course are automatically and permanently deleted. After your access expires, you must re-enroll at the then-current price to continue, and you will be presented with a fresh course that begins at the beginning.
We do not pause or extend enrollments for free. You may use the course until it expires at the end of your 183-day term, even if that date falls after your intended exam date.
8. Bar Exam Cancellation or Rescheduling
If the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners reschedules or cancels an administration of the examination for any reason, students enrolled for that exam period will be automatically extended to the new exam dates without additional charge. There will be no refunds.
9. No Guarantee of Passing
We do not guarantee that you will pass the bar examination. Your performance depends on your own understanding of what you need and your dedication to your studies. We provide a resource intended to assist your preparation; we do not promise any particular result.
10. Email Communications and Your Consent
By enrolling, you will receive transactional and service-related emails necessary to operate your account and deliver the Service (for example, purchase confirmations, essay-grading returns, and support replies).
During checkout, you may also affirmatively opt in to receive our broadcast instructional emails, which contain test-preparation tips and guidance on how to use the course. By opting in at checkout, you consent to receive these emails while your enrollment is active. These emails may occasionally inform current students of the option to upgrade to a higher LexBar plan, but they never contain marketing or promotional content for any third party. Every broadcast email includes a one-click unsubscribe link, and you may opt out at any time without affecting your access to the course. We send broadcast emails only to currently enrolled students and only while their enrollment is active.
11. Intellectual Property and License
The Service and all of its content — including videos, images, text, blog posts, sample and model answers, quizzes, flashcards, and other materials — are protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws, and we reserve all rights in our content. Some content is in the public domain or used under license from third parties; content we have licensed from other companies remains the intellectual property of those companies.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the course materials solely for your own personal bar-exam study during your active enrollment period. You agree that:
- your purchase and enrollment are for your personal use only;
- your enrollment and login will be used by only one individual and will not be shared;
- you will not use your login information to allow any other person to access the content you purchased;
- you will not redistribute, share, display, publish, sell, sublicense, reproduce, or duplicate the course content or your username and password in any manner; and
- you will immediately cease using LexBar services and materials when your enrollment expires.
12. Restrictions on Paywalled Content; AI Training
The following restrictions apply to all content that is behind the LexBar paywall and made available to enrolled students (“Enrolled Content”): you may not scrape, crawl, harvest, copy, or extract Enrolled Content by any automated or manual means, and you may not use Enrolled Content to train, fine-tune, or develop any artificial-intelligence or machine-learning model or system. When attending live classes, you may not capture, record, or in any manner copy or extract the content of the live class for any purpose whatsoever. A purchase of the LexBar+ Live plan gives you a limited license to attend the virtual live session synchronously as it occurs and to participate in that session when appropriate opportunities arise. Any other use of any live session is strictly prohibited. You must attend the session when it is scheduled. Recordings of the sessions will not be distributed for any reason.
These restrictions do not apply to our publicly accessible content (such as blog posts and other pages available to the general public without enrollment). We specifically allow the indexing, scraping, or use of our publicly accessible content for artificial-intelligence tools and similar purposes.
13. Student-Submitted Essays
Certain plans allow you to upload your written practice essay answers for grading. You retain ownership of the original answers you write. By submitting an essay, you grant LexBar a limited license to receive, store, review, grade, and return your submission, and to use submissions internally to operate and improve our grading and educational services. We are under no obligation to retain your submissions and may delete them in the ordinary course, including when your enrollment expires.
14. Live Classes and Recording Consent
Certain plans include live online classes conducted over a third-party video-conferencing platform. By attending a live class, you consent to being recorded. We record live classes solely for our own internal evaluation purposes. Recordings are stored locally, are not stored in the cloud, are never distributed or made available to anyone (including enrolled students, who must attend live to participate), and are automatically deleted when the student’s enrollment expires. To benefit from live classes, you must attend them live. We may remove any participant who is disruptive or who violates these Terms.
15. Acceptable Use
You agree not to: (a) share, sell, or transfer your account or login; (b) access the Service through automated means except as expressly permitted; (c) interfere with or disrupt the Service or its servers; (d) attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion of the Service; (e) use the Service in violation of any applicable law; or (f) use the Service or its materials for any purpose other than your own personal bar-exam preparation. We may terminate or suspend access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms.
16. Dispute Resolution; Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver
PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT REQUIRES YOU AND LEXBAR TO RESOLVE DISPUTES THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND LIMITS THE WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN SEEK RELIEF. YOU AND LEXBAR ARE WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY AND THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
16.1 Application of the Federal Arbitration Act. This Section evidences a transaction involving interstate commerce, and the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration provision. This arbitration provision shall survive termination of these Terms and the expiration of your enrollment.
16.2 Informal Dispute Resolution First. Before initiating any arbitration or court proceeding, you and LexBar agree to first attempt to resolve any dispute informally for at least 60 days. To begin, you must send a written notice of dispute to support@virginiabarexamtutor.com describing the nature of the dispute and the relief sought. If the dispute is not resolved within 60 days after the notice is received, either party may proceed to arbitration. This informal-resolution requirement is a condition precedent to commencing arbitration.
16.3 Agreement to Arbitrate. Except as set out below, you and LexBar agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, or your relationship with LexBar — whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory — shall be resolved exclusively by final and binding individual arbitration, rather than in court. The arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve any dispute relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability, or formation of this arbitration provision, except that disputes regarding the Class-Action Waiver in Section 16.6 shall be decided by a court.
16.4 Arbitration Procedure and Location. The arbitration shall be conducted in the English language. Unless the parties agree otherwise, any in-person arbitration hearing shall take place in Travis County, Texas, provided that the arbitrator may permit appearances by telephone or video. The arbitrator’s award shall be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
16.5 30-Day Right to Opt Out of Arbitration. You may opt out of this arbitration provision within 30 days after the date you first accept these Terms by sending written notice to support@virginiabarexamtutor.com with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out,” stating your name and that you wish to opt out of the arbitration provision. Opting out of arbitration will not affect any other provision of these Terms, including the choice of law and forum-selection provisions in Section 17.
16.6 Class-Action and Jury Waiver. You and LexBar agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. You and LexBar waive any right to a trial by jury. If a court decides that this Class-Action and Jury Waiver is unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, then that claim or request for relief (and only that claim or request for relief) shall be severed and may be brought in court, while all other claims shall proceed in arbitration.
16.7 Coordinated and Mass Arbitration. If 25 or more similar demands for arbitration are asserted against LexBar by or with the assistance of the same or coordinated counsel, or are otherwise coordinated, the parties agree that the demands shall be administered in batches of no more than 50 demands at a time. A single arbitrator shall preside over each batch, the parties shall select bellwether demands to be arbitrated first, and the filing and arbitration of all other demands in the group shall be stayed pending resolution of the bellwether proceedings. The parties shall cooperate in good faith, with the assistance of the AAA, to implement this batching process efficiently and to reduce costs. This Section 16.7 is intended to be enforced even where other portions of this Section are found unenforceable.
16.8 Small-Claims Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing, either party may bring an individual action in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction if the claim qualifies and remains in that court on an individual (non-class) basis.
17. Governing Law and Forum
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or the Service are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. For any dispute that is not subject to arbitration under Section 16 (including any dispute for which the arbitration provision is found inapplicable or unenforceable, and any action to compel arbitration or enforce an arbitration award), the parties agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state courts located in Travis County, Texas, and each party waives any objection to that venue. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the parties do not consent to litigation in federal court.
18. Service Availability
Some downtime is unavoidable, as servers must be upgraded and maintained and unexpected technical difficulties may arise with our servers or with our upstream service providers. LexBar uses industry-standard, commercially reasonable methods to maintain the availability of the Service, but we do not guarantee or promise any level of availability. Within any 183-day enrollment period, routine downtime may occur and, in exceptional circumstances, may total up to 48 hours, continuously or intermittently. You agree that such events are presumptively reasonable and unavoidable and do not entitle you to any discount or refund.
19. Disclaimer of Warranties
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT AND MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE. LEXBAR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LEXBAR DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR THAT ITS CONTENT IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT, OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICE WILL RESULT IN YOU PASSING THE BAR EXAMINATION. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THESE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
20. Limitation of Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LEXBAR OR ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, INSTRUCTORS, CONTRACTORS, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OPPORTUNITY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STATUTE, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT LEXBAR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, LEXBAR’S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU ACTUALLY PAID TO LEXBAR FOR THE ENROLLMENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY, SO SOME OF THESE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
21. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless LexBar and its members, managers, officers, employees, instructors, contractors, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any applicable law or the rights of any third party; or (d) any content you submit to the Service.
22. Outside Links
The Service may contain links to third-party websites or services that we do not own or control. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods, or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit.
23. Termination
We may terminate or suspend access to the Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. All provisions of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination shall survive, including the intellectual-property provisions, warranty disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and the dispute-resolution and arbitration provisions.
24. Changes to These Terms
We may modify these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Effective Date” above. Your continued use of the Service after a change becomes effective constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.
25. Miscellaneous
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and LexBar regarding the Service and supersede all prior agreements and understandings. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that provision will be limited or severed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. You may not assign these Terms without our prior written consent; we may assign them freely.
26. Contact
Questions about these Terms may be directed to:
LexBar Virginia by Brightlex LLC
5900 Balcones Drive STE 100
Austin, TX 78731
support@virginiabarexamtutor.com
Please also review our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information.