This lesson explores one of the fundamental lawyering skills, which is to think like a lawyer or analyze. Students will go through basic analysis exercises, so they can master this technique prior to writing exams.
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This lesson focuses on case briefing. The lesson will guide students through cases identifying the most important part of cases to prepare for classes.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Identify different parts of a case brief.
2. Categorize different...
This lesson explores one of the fundamental lawyering skills, which is to think like a lawyer, or analyze. Students will go through basic analysis exercises, so they can master this technique prior to writing exams.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1....
This lesson teaches you how to select the right answer in a multiple-choice question by better understanding how to identify wrong answers, based on nine specific types of wrong answers.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Identify the correct answer in a...
Creating Study Aids is part of the Academic Support series of CALI Lessons. This lesson introduces you to law school study aids. It begins with a brief overview of self-regulated learning and Bloom's learning taxonomy. Then, the lesson introduces law school study aids by pairing them with learning...
This lesson will cover the basic structure of written legal analysis: IRAC. IRAC stands for Issue, Rule, Application/Analysis, Conclusion. There are slightly different versions of IRAC which may be used for different legal documents. This lesson will focus on IRAC for essay exam writing. Some...
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