The complete handbook for students who want to significantly improve their performance in law school. Written from the perspective of a student with a 4.0 GPA, this book offers fresh and unique insights on law school exams by stripping the exam format into a series of repeatable steps and building blocks. It also teaches students how to prepare for exams, instead of preparing for class, with proven time-management, outlining, and case-briefing techniques.

A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. Provides an insider s view of what professors look for in exam answers, and how exam-taking connects to good lawyering.

In this work, nationally-recognized exam expert Professor Charles Whitebread will teach you the eight secrets that will add points to every exam answer you write.

In this work, nationally-recognized exam expert Professor Charles Whitebread will teach you the eight secrets that will add points to every exam answer you write.

This book answers the most-asked questions of first, second, and third year law school students. Exam Preparation: How long should my outline be? What should I include in my outline? What secondary sources should I use? Are study groups effective? Should I swap outlines with other students? How do I prepare for open and closed book exams?

This book is practical rather than theoretical where the emphasis is on providing the type of detailed examples necessary to show students precisely "how to do it" and "how to write it."

It answers questions students have as they begin their studies. What is a tort? Hornbook? Should I join a study group? It also explains and gives examples of the best methods for studying and for taking exams. It provides questions and model answers from actual law school exams.

This audio lecture on compact disc on law school exam writing teaches the secrets of law school test taking. In this fascinating lecture, Professor Whitebread leads you step-by-step through his innovative system, so that you know exactly how to tackle your essay exams without making point-draining mistakes.

This book answers the most-asked questions of first, second, and third year law school students. Exam Preparation: How long should my outline be? What should I include in my outline? What secondary sources should I use? Are study groups effective? Should I swap outlines with other students? How do I prepare for open and closed book exams?

“Far and away the most concise and pragmatic explanation I have ever seen of the mechanics of law school issue spotter exams.” Prof. Jane Winn

This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams.

This book leaves newcomers to criminal law with what they need most: key concepts they can remember!

This book shows first-year students how to approach their torts course so they can master the material with efficiency and focus. Chapters on intentional torts, negligence, strict and products liability, and multi-issue fact patterns show students how to use a step-by-step method that improves their ability to analyze torts problems and to demonstrate their knowledge on the final exam.

This study aid uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams.

This book offers a succinct, clear, and user-friendly review of federal evidence law. It provides many helpful examples and employs checklists at the end of every chapter. The checklist approach provides an organized way to analyze evidence problems and is particularly helpful for spotting hidden issues. This book’s summaries, sample problems, and checklists offer a systematic process for spotting and resolving evidence problems in class, on your evidence exam, on the bar, and in the real world.

This four hour audio lecture on compact disc on Criminal Law reviews volitional acts, mental states, specific intent, malice, general intent, strict liability, and accomplice liability. It also explains inchoate crimes, impossibility, defenses, insanity, voluntary and involuntary intoxication, infancy, self-defense, defense of a dwelling, duress, necessity, and mistake of fact or law. Also discussed are entrapment, battery, assault, homicide, comon law murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, first degree murder, felony murder, rape, larceny, embezzlement, false pretenses, robbery, extortion, burglary, and arson.

This book will ensure that you will be ready for that final exam by providing guidance in how to analyze and answer the law school issue spotter question.

The purpose of this exercise is to help students—especially first-year students—understand the process of legal analysis and improve their legal writing and legal analysis skills. Specifically, students will work on their ability to apply the law to the facts of a problem.

This is the second lesson of two designed to introduce the first year law student to the basic concepts involved in a contract for the purchase and sale of real estate.