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1L of a Blog Series: Three Tips for Reading & Briefing Cases
Welcome to law school! This is a biweekly series with tips and tricks for success…
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A Possible Exercise in Interpretation
I heard a recent joke that goes something like this, in a conversation between an…
Making Explicit the Implicit — Take the Road Less Traveled
Poet Robert Frost writes: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the…
Be In Your Bag (of Questions) as a 1L Reader
To become an expert reader, however, you will need to model what expert readers do when reading a legal opinion. This means moving beyond default reading strategies, such as highlighting and underlining, and reaching into your bag of questions to situate the case, identify its most important parts, and understand the opinion and its relevance to various hypothetical situations. Here are a few tips for reading and examples of the kinds of questions you should ask while reading . . .
A Few Suggestions for 1L Readers
Congratulations as you begin to embark on your legal education as entering first year law…
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Academic and Bar Support Scholarship Spotlight
ASP Foundational Scholarship Series: This series focuses on the seminal ASP/ Bar Exam scholarship that…
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Success Beyond the Bar
July 2019 bar exam results are not due to be released in New York for…
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Predictors of Success
My inbox is crammed with pictures of pangolins. Pangolins with claws turned under walking on…
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Getting It Right from the Start
Years ago, as part of an effort to address bar passage issues at my school,…
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A Tribute to the Tale
I choose to spend much of my precious free time in the company of friends…