CLASS NOTES

1/8/04 – The structure of the course, the roles of a lawyer, forms of legal reasoning, the ethics of predictive writing, plagiarism

1/15/04 – Citations, rules of law

1/22/04 – Reading cases instrumentally, the effect of a particular case

1/29/04 – Condensing a rule out of several rules

2/5/04 – Explaining the rule, analyzing the problem

2/12/04 – A visit from Lexis, the office memo assignment

3/4/04 – About the trial brief

3/10/04 – About working on journals, about writing the brief, exercises

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