Skill guides
Resources for learning law like a system.
Guides, frameworks, and practice tools, written for law students who want to understand the system, not just survive it.
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Case briefing
1 guideWhat a case brief actually is, why professors assign them, and how to extract facts, issue, rule, and holding efficiently, with an annotated example and the mistakes that waste the most time.
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IRAC
1 guideThe Issue–Rule–Application–Conclusion framework used on every law school exam. Broken down section by section with a worked contracts example and the most common structural errors.
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Law school exams
1 guideHow law school exams are structured, what the grading rubric rewards, and how to build a timed practice loop that prepares you, not just exposes you to material.
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Outlining
1 guideThe difference between a full outline, condensed outline, and attack outline: when to use each, how to build them, and the mistakes that turn outlines into busywork.
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01By 1L subject
Doctrinal exam guides.
What each core 1L course tests, the high-frequency exam topics, and the tools to practice them.
Contracts
Formation, consideration, the parol evidence rule, and remedies.
Open guide →Torts
Negligence elements, proximate cause, res ipsa, and intentional torts.
Open guide →Civil Procedure
Personal and subject-matter jurisdiction, Erie, and 12(b)(6).
Open guide →Criminal Law
Mens rea, homicide grading, defenses, and inchoate crimes.
Open guide →Property
Estates and future interests, easements, adverse possession, recording acts.
Open guide →Constitutional Law
Standing, the commerce clause, equal protection, and the First Amendment.
Open guide →Practice hypos with model answers
Worked fact patterns in Torts, Contracts, and Civil Procedure, each with a model IRAC answer to compare against your own. The scarce thing in 1L prep, free.
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