Writing a legal memorandum is one of many necessities for lawyers. It is an important skill to learn whether you are in law school or practicing for the Multistate Performance Test (MPT) or the California Performance Test (CA-PT). Including a detailed section on how...
Steps to Analyze a Statute First: Read all relevant sections of the statute, including all relevant definitions. Second: Read binding case law that interprets relevant sections of the statute. Third: Apply the plain meaning of a word if the relevant words are not...
How to Read a Legal Citation: A citation is a reference to legal authorities and precedents such as statutes, legal opinions, regulations, and law review articles. Citations are used in legal memoranda, arguments to courts, legal textbooks, judicial opinions, law...
Organizational Paradigms IRAC CREAC Issue Conclusion Rule Rule Explanation Application Application Conclusion Conclusion Step One: Issue Spotting/ Conclusion/ Thesis-What is the legal question that I need to analyze? First, start with a sentence that...
To: Applicants for the July 2019 California Bar Examination It has come to our attention that the State Bar inadvertently provided a number of deans of law schools in California a list of the subject matter topics contained in the July 2019 California Bar Examination...
