This session will offer a deeper dive into the CALI Author question types, including question uses, tips, and best practices.

For over 34 years, CALIcon, The Conference for Law School Computing^®, has organized its schedule at nearly the last minute in order to bring the most relevant and up-to-date presentations to attendees. This year is no different and we are looking for law school faculty, librarians, and technologists with strong opinions, great ideas, interesting projects, and useful advice. Come and share and be challenged.

For 2024 we are planning the conference as an in-person, live event. We will gather at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle WA on Thursday and Friday June 13 – 14, 2024, as well as providing a live stream of the full conference. We’re combining the formula that we’ve used the past couple of years with our tried and true structure that worked well for us prior to 2020. This means that we’re going to have 60-minute long sessions with thirty-minute breaks between sessions. Each session will consist of up to 3 15-minute talks with 15 minutes for discussion. We’re also accepting 30 and 45 minute long proposals to accommodate more in-depth talks and panels.

Classroom discussion focuses heavily on cases. However, end-of-semester final exams don't normally reference cases. Many students don't know how cases operate on final exams. This lesson helps students understand where cases fit in a final exam answer and develop arguments based on cases. Students' exam arguments should improve using this lesson's techniques.

This lesson will teach you the best ways to prepare for exams, and the best ways to organize your response on the day of your exam.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:
1. Explain the best ways to prepare for exams.
2. Organize and outline before writing an exam.
3. Apply techniques to better organize their time on exams.

Help your students get prepared for midterm exams. CALI has developed several CALI Lessons with our Law School Success Fellows intended to support students in their development of critical-thinking skills and provide students with the meta-skills needed to succeed in law school. 

CALI Lessons: Partial List

• Attacking Exams (LSS19)
• Reading Comprehension Strategies for Exams (LSS23) (Includes video commentary from the author)
• Types of Law School Exams: Discussions in Law School Success Podcast (LSS47P)
  

For 34 years, The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has hosted its legal education conference called "CALIcon." The CALIcon conference is a two-day event at newly renovated or built law schools. It draws an estimated 300 attendees: law faculty, law librarians, IT professionals, distance learning staff, and law school administrators. The conference aims to provide a unique environment for everyone to share ideas, innovations, experiences, and best practices for application in law school classrooms to engage law students with tech. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Help get the word out about the conference.  Use #CALIcon24 in your social media post.

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has successfully wrapped up its groundbreaking CALI Summer Challenge, providing pre-law students with a unique opportunity to gain essential insights into first-year legal concepts. The program offered free of charge to member law schools engaged over 260 enthusiastic participants running 1,450 lesson runs, reinforcing CALI's commitment to fostering academic excellence and empowering tomorrow's legal leaders.

About half of our 200 member law schools distribute CALI Awards. The CALI Excellence for the Future Award® is given to the highest-scoring student in each law school class.

Benefits of earning a CALI Award:

• A permanent URL of your virtual award. You can link to it from online resumes, profiles, and biographies.
• Opportunity to join an unlisted CALI Award LinkedIn® Group page.

Always on the go? Then, you need to try out our podcasts. CALI® podcasts are 10-minute audio recordings of law professors straightforwardly covering specific legal concepts. Each podcast provides law students with a learning resource to help in time management.

CALI has produced a library of 100 podcasts aimed at helping all law students covering these legal topics:

• Contracts
• Constitutional Law
• Copyright Law
• Legal Concepts and Skills
• Negotiable Instruments/Payment Systems
• Partnerships
• Property Law
• Secured Transactions
• Torts