This lesson explains some key differences between legal writing and exam writing. First, the lesson demonstrates the relationship between legal writing and exam writing. Next, the lesson explains the differences between legal writing and exam writing. After you complete this lesson you will be able to transfer writing and analysis skills learned in your legal writing course to your final exams.
Read moreThese questions review the materials covered in Chapter Two of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes: Maintaining the Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary.
Read moreThese questions review the materials covered in Chapter Five of the textbook Judicial Ethics and Conduct, available from CALI's eLangdell website. The subject matter covered includes disqualification / recusal.
Read moreThis lesson will explain uniform laws and model codes. It provides an overview of how uniform laws and model codes are created and shows researchers how to locate uniform laws and model codes, drafters' commentary, state versions of uniform laws and model codes, and cases interpreting them.
Read moreThis lesson will cover business deductions, such as reasonable compensation, parachute payments, miscellaneous deductions,and business losses. Several Internal Revenue Code sections are reviewed, including 162 and 274.
Read moreThis lesson is best used after studying Federal Income Taxation: Deductions, in class. The lesson includes problem sets to work through to refine your ability to apply the Code and Regs. to a variety of situations involving general applicability of deduction limitations under section 183.
Read moreThe first lesson on UCC Article 2A provides an overview of the article. Because Article 2A applies only to a "true lease,' the lesson assists the user in determining whether a transaction is in fact a lease.
Read moreThis is an introduction to some of the legal aspects of the husband-wife relationship, including property and support obligations along with a number of issues involving the marital status
Read moreThroughout law school, students will be asked to assess their own essays by comparing them to a model or sample student answer provided by their professor. It can often be difficult to distinguish one’s work from the model. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish what a student knows, from what they wrote down. Experienced legal writers understand that subtle differentiation in language changes the meaning of what was written. This lesson will provide students with strategies for self-assessment, so that they can become critical judges of their work, and consequently precise legal writers.
Read morePreemption checking determines if an idea for a journal note or paper is original. This lesson identifies the sources to use and the process of conducting a preemption check.
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