When you use canned briefs, do you use the online ones, like eCasenotes, or something bought, like legallines

i google and select the best canned brief from the results. i only ever use them to jog my memory on what the case is about or to survive a coldcall.

i highlight in my casebook so if i ever need anything specific i can just look in there

I usually use Lush brand:

So your saying you use them just in case you get called on in class? Do you brief cases otherwise? I heard its best to skim Casebook to get a feel then you could just use the canned briefs for your outline/notes.

Yup. I don't brief cases otherwise. I do read them all, though, and actively highlight things I find important. I also take very good in-class notes on what the professor thinks about the case or language in the case the professor notes as important.

I've found that in Torts, the cases are relatively unimportant. The professor has told us this. He lets us know when a case is important to memorize, and that has only happened once or twice.

Property: same thing, excepting for landmark cases, of course.

CivPro: Cases are obviously more important here. I take extremely detailed in-class notes on the cases from what the professor discusses (he's very socratic), and I feel like this is even better than briefing. Briefing just takes far too much time. Time I could spend reading supplements or watching baseball.

This is basically what I do as well.

Well played good sir.

Don't pad his ego. Bivons hates double fudge brownies and double stuff Oreos.

Oh and High Court briefs FTW!

I...don't get the joke

Were you too Vicodin addled to remember?

...perhaps lol. Is this a joke I really should be getting?

Because my Civ Pro professor expects us to know case details for the final, and because she likes to emphasize the limits and ambiguities of the law without much covering the basics, I bought the High Court Case summarizes keyed to my casebook. I think its helping.

This. I have all of the Casenotes series and let me tell you, they really aren't that great. I don't use them anymore, unless I really have to run to class and am completely unprepared. I just read the case, take notes in the margins and highlight important stuff and then take notes from class. I rarely EVER read notes I've written for myself or ever find them useful. The class notes are gold so I mainly focus my efforts on trying to figure out what the professor likes/dislikes. That is all I pay attention to in class. All irrelevant stuff flies out the other ear and I focus like a hawk on any little word that triggers a professors opinion on something or how they want us to answer things on an exam (they usually don't come right out and say, "this is what I want you to do on an exam" but if you pay careful enough attention it can definitely be inferred, IMO). I'll obviously know when grades come out if I've been going about all this the right way.

I use legalines, or a blog I found online called lawschool.mikeshecket or something like that.

I read the casebook, and then read the briefs afterwards to make sure I understand everything and didnt miss something key. I find they are a good way to work on my briefs as well. But at this point in the semester the only class im consistently briefing for anymore is my small section of contracts where people get called on at least once a week.