I bought these handy-dandy flashcards last year to study for my professional responsibility final, and I decided to hang on to them so that I could use them to study for the MPRE (which is basically the ethics portion of the bar... sidenote: why is it that everyone in the coutry takes the same exact test, but the "passing" score is different in each state?). Just to give you an idea of how much information this is, these flashcards are produced for several law school subjects. Normally there is only 1 box of flashcards for each subject. Professional responsibility has 2 boxes! That is almost 1,000 flashcards! So during my "free" time I get to read questions like this:
You represent Samson in a negligence suit against the Delilah Beauty Salon. Delilah is represented by Clarence Sparrow. Sparrow offers a piece of hearsay evidence. You know that the evidence, although hearsay, is admissible under a very old, but still valid, state court case. You nevertheless object to admission of the evidence on hearsay grounds. The ensuing argument shows Sparrow clearly isn't familiar with the earlier case. How should you proceed when you realize his lack of knowledge?
Makes you want to jump right up and go to law school, right? The nice thing about having these flashcards, though, is that I don't have to come up with hypotheticals on my own and the explanations to the questions are pretty good. The hypotheticals are kind of funny (they come up with names like R. Gang School District, Grandma Hood, and Midsummer Night's Cream Pie Shop). But I still have 390 of them to go through... so I guess it's back to studying for me.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
law in a flash
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