Outlines, Briefs, Notes, and music.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RJ5WNBX0 - law

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFGTDUSG - music

Thats everything I have SAVED to this computer. There is about half the semester I typed up at school and sent to my gmail never saving it to my 'law' file on my computer.

Disclaimer: I am a student. Not everything is correct. Most of my briefs and outlines have hand written notes and line outs in pen. If you depend on my notes you should take the same route.

Some briefs I took from:

http://lawschool.mikeshecket.com/civpro/casebooknotes.html

4law.com

I assume everything has a creative commons license until I am notified otherwise by the creator.

Contents:

CIVIL PROCEDURE 1 W. PROFESSOR STIGLITZ:

Asahi Metal Industry Co.doc

Asahi Metal Questions.doc

Bridges v Diesel.doc

BurgerKingCorp v Rudz.doc

Burnham v Superior Court.doc

Butler v Rigsby.doc

Carnival Cruise Lines v Shute.doc

Civil Procedure Outline.doc

DeeK v. Heveafil.doc

Gibbons v Brown.doc

Hansen v Denckla.doc

Hawkins v MastersFarms.doc

Helicopteros v Hall.doc

Houchens v AmericanHomeA.doc

InternationalShoe v Wash.doc

McGee v International Life.doc

Norton v Snapper.doc

Notes and problems159.doc

Pavlovich v Superior Court.doc

Perkins v Benguet.doc

Piper Aircraft v Reyno.doc

Rush v City of Maple Heights.doc

Sample Essays.doc

Shaffer v Heitner.doc

Shoe Questions.doc

Sigma Chemical Co v Harris.doc

Worldwide volkswagon v. Woodson .doc

Yeazell 267.doc

CONTRACTS 1 BARTON:

Austin Instrument v Loral.doc

Batsakis v.doc

Contracts Outline.doc

Contracts Outlined 1.doc

Coppola Enterprise v Alfone.doc

Davies v Martel.doc

Dougherty v Salt.doc

Feinberg v Pfeiffer Co.doc

Foakes v Beer.doc

Grouse v Group Health.doc

Hadley v Baxendale.doc

Haines v New York.doc

Hamer v Sidway.doc

Hawkins v McGee.doc

Hill v Jones.doc

Kenford Co v Erie CoKGMHarvesting.doc

Kirksey v Kirksey.doc

LacledeGas v Amoco.doc

Lingenfelder v Brewery.doc

Lucy v Zehmer.doc

Osteen v Johnson.doc

Piper Aircraft v Reyno.doc

Raffles v Wichelhaus.doc

Rockingham County v Luten.doc

Schnell v Nell.doc

Scott v Moragues.doc

Security Stove v American.doc

Shirley MacLain Parker v Fox.doc

Spaulding v Morse.doc

United States Naval Institute.doc

Walgreen Co v Sara Creek.doc

Webb v McGowin.doc

WickhamCoal v Farmer.doc

CRIMINAL LAW 1 BENNER

Chaplin v United States.doc

Criminal Law Outline-1.doc

Criminal Law Outline.doc

People v Ashley.doc

People v Brown.doc

People v Khoury.doc

Rex v Manley Brief.doc

State of New Jersey v Palendrano.doc

The People v Carlson.doc

Thompson v State.doc

United States v Selwyn.doc

PROPERTY 1 SMYTHE

Ghen v Rich.doc

Gruen v Gruen.doc

Keeble v Hickeringill.doc

Kuntos.doc

Newman v Bost.doc

Pierson v Post.doc

Property Outline.doc

LEGAL SKILLS CATO

CatoMeet.doc

Final Memo.doc

Final Memo and Reflection do Hypothetical.doc

Krona v Brett.doc

Marengo v Ross.doc

memo.doc

memo2.doc

MEMORANDUM.doc

MEMORANDUM2.doc

outline.doc

People v Woods.doc

Peter v Arco.doc

Professionalism Civility.doc

research ex. 3.doc

Research ex2.doc

Research Reflection.doc

umbrella.doc

United States v Selwyn.doc

Victor Victime.doc

writing assignment.doc

Wydick Exercise.doc

music

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NFGTDUSG

Moth - Failure

Frogs - Failure

Undone - Failure

Memory Lane - Elliot Smith

King's Crossing - Elliot Smith

Carry the Zero - Built to Spill

Else - Built to Spill

He War - Cat Power

Renegade - hed pe

Oblivion - Mastodon

Armistice - Phoenix

LA - Elliot Smith

Wouldn't Mama be Proud - Elliot Smith

Can't Make a Sound - Elliot Smith

Criminal - Eminem

1901 - Phoenix

Lisztomania - Phoenix

Jesus, etc. - Wilco

Losing A Whole Year - Third Eye Blind

2+2=5 (The Lukewarm.) - Radiohead

Just - Radiohead

My Iron Lung - Radiohead

The Bends - Radiohead

Planet Telex - Radiohead

Sidewalk - Built to Spill

Half way there.

My civil procedure and contracts finals are done.

Civil procedure-

I walked into the exam and when it started I got sick. I couldn't think so I got up, went to the restroom and ran my wrists under some cool water. I came back, sat down and did as well as I could. I think I messed up the first few multiple choice questions and I'm not sure how well I did on the essay. Its probably not an A but I also didn't fail. So glass half-full I suppose.

Contract-

What the fucking fuck was that? 90 minutes to type as fast as you could in issue spotting memorized racehorse word vomit. I type between 90-100 wpm. I typed the entire time and I still missed two issues by virtue of the fact that there was not enough time. At the end of 90 minutes we had to stop typing and move onto the multiple choice. The multiple choice had easy questions and medium questions, but nothing terribly difficult.

I hit a ton of issues and had some decent policy points to make. I know I hit a few things that only people that memorized every slide, the cases and their outline would have gotten. However, I missed a statute of frauds issue and I didn't address specific performance (even though it wasn't valid for either party in the fact pattern it still needed to be addressed, I ran out of time).

Anyway, I knew the whole syllabus and all the material forwards and backwards and I likely still didn't get an A.

Two more attempts left. I'm still swinging for the fences, but these exams are hard.

The penultimate week

My first final is civil procedure. It is next Saturday at 8am.

I recovered fully from being sick. I lost 10 pounds but I'm gaining it back. I didn't weigh very much to begin with.

I rolled through studying this week. I'm at the 70 hour mark between classes and study hours. I worked with a few study groups, took practice tests and updated all my outlines.

I have some positive and negative remarks about California Western. I'll start with the negative and end with the positive:

Negative:

-The library is not open 24 hours. This is odd. I like being there late and studying. I guess this is somewhat of an uproar as there is a facebook group and a petition to leave the library open. The general feeling is that the tuition is at an all time high and the student services are at an all time low.

-The attrition rate weighs pretty heavily on the student population. It makes everyone stressed and depressed.

-This last comment isn't so much a complaint about the school as it is something I feel like venting. There is one student in my section who for whatever reason has gone out of his way to become disruptive in class. I think he claims he will be in the top 5 or 10 percent. I have my suspicions.

Positive:

-The review sessions put on by the Women's Law Caucus are very helpful. I went to a contracts review session and they gave me an outline to augment/ correct my own with. They also taught me how to engineer an attack outline and how to approach my contracts exam.

-The tutors are extraordinarily helpful. They even proctor practice exams. The tutors also give feedback and help explain complicated hypotheticals and practice problems. They also cut straight to what is applicable to the exam.

-My legal skills professor is very pleasant. She went over my final memo for the class and gave some helpful suggestions.

Evaluating myself:

Property - I did well on the practice exam. I even nailed a pretty hard future interest problem which had language that could be interpreted two different ways. You had to determine the intent of the drafter and argue for two different parties. I like the future interest problems.

Criminal Law - I did well on the practice exam. The professor for this class wants very concise answers and does not like irac. I feel like I am going to be OK during this final, but its the kind of test that if you misread a question or miss the call of the question you could bomb the final.

Contracts - This class gets a mixed review. The professor wants us to essentially write an essay about everything we have learned and apply it to a fact pattern. This means outlining the course during the exam and sticking in facts. I am fine with this. However, the format makes me uncomfortable. Its a race horse issue spotting exam. The professor also only allows 90 minutes for the essay portion and then you are not allowed to go back and edit it.

Civil Procedure - I have a firm grasp on the material for this course. Unfortunately, so does everyone else. I think the professor scared everyone into studying like mad. Another negative point is that the exam is going to be 'easy' according to the professor, which means it will be difficult to differentiate myself from the rest of the group. This is also an exam where if you misread the question you can bomb the final.

Legal Skills - The final memo is all that is required. There is no final. My legal skills group is a 1/4 of the full section. My group has some good writers who certainly communicated with the professor more than I did throughout the semester. I had my professor look over my paper and outside of a few minor errors everything seemed ok. I have my doubts as to whether I will get the A. I certainly will not fail or anything, but I don't know how my writing reads compared to others. From what I can tell the top papers are somewhat of a toss up as to who gets the A and who gets a B. This class is not included in the GPA to determine if the school asks you to leave or not.

If I took all my finals right now I would not fail them. Hopefully I can polish things up a bit and get a few As. But who knows? Nothing in law school is a given.

finals month.

I started grinding for finals. It is, for lack of a better word, a bitch.

Status:

-2 of my outlines are behind, but they are my strongest classes.

-2 of my outlines are up to date, but they are my weakest classes.

-I am attempting to finish all the course work for legal skills today and still get civ pro reading/ briefing done for tomorrow.

I took a few practice tests last week. The practice tests are a rough experience. I have to get my minimum contacts test down to a science. Contracts seems like a race to the finish. You have to write like crazy and always argue both sides even if the other side is a poor argument.

Some people are reading ahead to the finish so they can start studying. I've opted out of this. I'm better at learning the material by reading/ briefing, going to class for the corresponding lecture, and then incorporating it into my notes. I learn the concepts best by reading, writing and listening to them back to back.

This Thursday-Sunday are going to be exam days.

I am very anxious about all this. I've never really worried about grades because I've always done pretty well. I went to a really competitive undergrad too and I didn't even worry this much about my thesis. I think the nervousness stems from three parts. 1) I've never done this before. Summer enrichment helped but it definitely has nothing on the pressure presented by fall finals. 2) I see three or four people that are consistently outworking me. They are in the library from 7am to 9 or 10pm. You're not supposed to worry about what others are doing and just focus on making sure you can apply the concepts but I can't help but end up slightly intimidated. 3) The exams are all or nothing. It feels like the fall semester really sets the tone for the rest of law school and summer job prospects.

Anyway, wish me luck.

Sleepless in San Diego

I'm usually lights out and asleep before midnight but for whatever reason I'm wide awake and figured I'd make a post.

I had a few bad days last week. Monday and Tuesday it felt like my brain went on an involuntary mental vacation. I tried to grind through it but just came home retaining nothing. Wednesday onward went fine.

I've started working with other classmates. Up until now I've been working on my own and going to the tutoring sessions. I like working with others but its only good for outlining and reinforcing old material or clearing up questions or ambiguities in the classes or the readings. I'm definitely at a point where I need to review and memorize the material from the start of the semester up to this point so I can start working on hypotheticals in November.

Here is my break down class by class:

Legal skills -

This class is still lame. We've only really learned bluebook citations. Beyond that we work on IREAC. Its a particular structure for writing memos and essays for law school exams. Its nothing you couldn't learn on your own in a whopping 15 minutes. Its worth less than the other classes. Unfortunately that doesn't make it entirely worthless to GPA and maybe getting a summer internship or clerkship.

My biggest motivating factor for this class is that the professor recently came from a pretty nice firm and knows what employers want in a writing sample. Hopefully I can pull an A and get a writing sample out of it.

Contracts -

This class is a lot of black letter law.

Criminal Law -

I think our professor made a mistake. He hurried through 'attempt' and made it seem unimportant. It took talking to the tutor and pouring over the reading to figure out that this will probably be worth big points on the exam.

Property -

It is the easiest class but after reading ahead I think it might become one of the most difficult. I got called on the other day to answer questions. I did pretty well. I inadvertently used a common word that has a legal definition. The professor corrected me. One of the disadvantages to reading ahead a few classes is that you forget what you read when the class rolls around. It didn't matter. I had my brief and the case highlighted and color coded in a way that gave me all the answers and refreshed my memory.

Civil Procedure -

I answered all the questions in my Glannons study aid and it helps a lot to answer questions in class. I have a question for the professor that I'll probably ask him about when class is over.

Some random thoughts:

I'm not nearly social enough. I have friends and I get invited out I just choose not to go anywhere. I like working on law school problems with people but when it comes to going out for drinks or whatever I'd rather not spend the money. I've made some cycling and surfing friends around the city but its not quite the same as the law school social scene which can have a distinct 'high school' feel to it. I am pretty certain every law school has that same feel after talking to my friends at other schools.

I guess the hot 'blawg' topic has been whether or not to trust school sponsored blogs. Several law schools have these now and California Western is no exception. Most potential law students want an accurate view of what a law school is like so here is my take on internet resources and developing an authentic view of a law school.

School sponsored blogs-

School sponsored blogs are probably an OK source to get a preliminary idea of what attending a law school is like. Take it with a grain of salt. The authors aren't going to say anything to shake the boat about the professors, administration, career services or whatever or they likely wouldn't be asked to blog in the first place.

Independent non-anonymous blogs-

These are likely to have some good information and have impartial opinions about the school. Some of them have the same issue that the school sponsored blogs have though in that their authors might not share negative experiences they have to avoid real life road bumps.

Anonymous blogs-

Some are great and some are just rumor mills.

Blogs in general are pretty bad. They are usually a single view point with no alternative perspectives. This one is probably no exception. At least I'm honest about it. Heh.

Message boards-

These are an excellent way to get to know students at any law school in the country. A lot of the users are anonymous but will reveal themselves if you integrate with the community. They'll give honest opinions. The downside is that on any massive law school message board you'll run into 'if you're not top 14 you're worthless' trolls.

Epinions, Yahoo! Answers, Yelp, whatever your favorite ratings site is-

Yahoo! Answers is usually a cesspit of stupid. Epinions I know very little about. Yelp is generally pretty good for restaurants and getting my haircut but I don't know if I would go there for advice about law school. The ratings on these kinds of cites seem to be either one star or five. I suspect that the only people to actually go out of their way to fill out a rating and write something about their school are those that are either overjoyed with their law school choice or are super disgruntled that they failed out or that they hate studying law.

Law school numbers, US News and World Report, Princeton Review-

These are very useful. They are written by competent individuals who know the law school geography intimately. I wouldn't get too caught up in law school rankings. USNWR does not weight bar passage very highly and thats definitely a crucial part of becoming a lawyer. Always look at the different metrics these kinds of organizations use and make sure it fits with what you are looking for. Princeton review costs money but its not hard to find a free password. Law school numbers last I checked just gave a statistics only representation of a law school's make-up.

The above mostly just states the obvious. The potential law school student is really their own best filter.

Time for bed.

Mornin'!

The morning routine:

1) get up at 6, hit the snooze button.

2) actually get up at 6:15

3) make coffee

4) read news/ whatever until the coffee is done.

5) review brief, notes and reading for first class over 2-3 cups of coffee

6) bike to class

Yesterday I got called on to answer questions in criminal law. I finally made it through socratic questioning without saying something dumb, stuttering, or rushing through answers nervously. Woo hooooooooo!

Worthy of a blog post?

Rumor mills in law schools generate ideas ranging from reasonable to completely insane. Usually they spawn out of the 1Ls mishearing or misrepresenting something from a 2 or 3L.

This rumor came from UCSD. My significant other landed a research position at UCSD. Their boss/peer there talked about California Western becoming a part of UCSD. I'm inclined to believe him.

After some quick googling it turns out this rumor has been around for ages. Who knows if it will ever come to fruition? It would certainly be a phenomenal experience for California Western students to have access to UCSD resources and UCSD could benefit their mission having their own brand of lawyers.

Anyway, this is the best I can do for a 'source':

http://jollylawger.com/?p=107