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If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.

good post

SilverE2 wrote:good post

The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.

Gun hard or go home.

joncrooshal wrote:

SilverE2 wrote:good post

The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.

Gun hard smart or go home.

FTFY

target wrote:

joncrooshal wrote:

SilverE2 wrote:good post

The lack of comments in this thread clearly shows that people are taking my advice and furiously working on their outlines.

Gun hard smart or go home.

FTFY

True. It is an endurance race.

Serious Post:

~1 page per week of class. A little less depending on how natural the material comes to me. A little longer/detailed if I don't remember the statute or rule clearly (ex: civpro.)

If your outlines are less than 200 pages per class, you done fucked up big time.

chimp wrote:If your outlines are less than 200 pages per class, you done fucked up big time.

I thought that was just enough for the midterm I have in Contracts.

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw

Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.

Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.

WTF is an outline.

joncrooshal wrote:

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw

Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.

Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.

joncrooshal wrote:If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.

Serious talk: ask yourself How many open-/closed-note exams will you have? and what it the point of an outline in each case?

target wrote:

joncrooshal wrote:

G. T. L. Rev. wrote:Robot Pimp says longer than the casebook, if you really know what's what: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGPahA5WSCw

Seriously, there is no proper length. And no matter what people tell you, longer is by no means better.

Serious talk: That is why this thread was created, duh.

joncrooshal wrote:If they are not at least 75 pages so far, you are doing it wrong.

Serious talk: ask yourself How many open-/closed-note exams will you have? and what it the point of an outline in each case?

3 open, 1 semi-open.

I want to have every fact of every case available. It's extremely important to know about the hairy hand of Hawkins and about how his life was fucking miserable after the case. I know my K's professor will love it when I spend 3/4 of the question analyzing the facts of the case.

3 weeks into contracts, 3 pages.

You'll never come close to passing a law exam unless you give a detailed description of the facts of each case you reference along with its procedural history. The holding and the rule are not really that important I don't think.

People have 20 page outlines for torts at my school. Yes you read that correctly.

I never understood how someone could make a 100+ page outline until I came to law school. There is enough information to probably make a 150 page outline for each of my classes.

The key is to distill the bullshit, cases, and lectures down to a manageable size. I am hoping for about 35 pages per class. I am at about 5-8 for each right now.

Then I can hopefully reduce those down to mini-outlines during finals.

chimp wrote:You'll never come close to passing a law exam unless you give a detailed description of the facts of each case you reference along with its procedural history. The holding and the rule are not really that important I don't think.

Why would they be? Everyone knows law school exams are based on theory only. Fuck the facts of the case on the exam. Base everything off the facts of the cases in class. I also hear that making your own hypos in the exam hypos is the way to get an A++

~10-25 pages, depending on the class.

It's worked well for me up 'til now.

BeenDidThat wrote:~10-25 pages, depending on the class.

It's worked well for me up 'til now.

Michele feels that is enough.