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Lawdibles Audio – Lawdibles :: CALI Podcasts

Summary: Lawdibles: Your Audio Law Professor. A law professor accurately explains a narrow area of law in less than 10 minutes so that you understand.

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Podcasts:

 Improving Exam Taking Skills by Reviewing Last Semester’s Exams | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Professor Glesner Fines explains why you should re-visit last semester’s law school exams to improve your performance this semester and to ensure that you know the subject for use in law practice. Her suggestions include how best to review your own exam and how to prepare for a meeting with your former professor to discuss […]

 Outlining for Law School Exams | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Professor Glesner Fines explains how create an outline for your law school class that reflects what you have learned and prepares you for your exam. This podcast is the third in a series of Lawdibles from Professor Glesner Fines. The series of podcasts accompanies her book “Materials for Law School Success,” available for free from […]

 Exam Writing and Briefing Cases | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Professor Glesner Fines speaks with a 1L student about how to brief a case and the relationship between briefing a case and writing an exam. This podcast is the second in a series from the author that accompanies her book “Materials for Law School Success,” available for free from CALI’s eLangdell® Press. Professor Glesner Fines […]

 Factors That Influence Law School Success – Barbara Glesner Fines | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Professor Glesner Fines speaks with an entering law student about the factors that influence law school success, including resources, attitude, cooperation and challenge. This is the first in a series of podcasts from Professor Glesner Fines that accmpanies her eBook, “Materials for Law School Success,” available for free from CALI’s eLangdell® Press. Professor Barbara Glesner Fines’ numerous CALI […]

 Comparative Negligence vs. Assumption of Risk – Brigham Fordham | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

What is the difference between comparative negligence and assumption of the risk? This Lawdible helps students learn to recognize the differences between the two most important  affirmative defenses to a negligence claim — assumption of the risk and comparative negligence.  Professor Fordham works through a hypothetical that highlights the differences between assumption of the risk and comparative negligence.  He then explains […]

 Impeaching a Hearsay Declarant Who Does Not Appear in Court – Arthur Best | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

How can an opponent impeach a hearsay declarant, when the declarant does not appear in court? Find out in this Lawdible. When hearsay is introduced against a party, that party may impeach the Declarant using any techniques that could be used against a witness who testifies live in court. For example, evidence of past convictions […]

 Ethics issues involving attorney retainers and advances – Barbara Glesner Fines | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

As an attorney, you will often receive funds from a client before you even perform any services for a client. Many attorneys require payment of a retainer or an advance for future services. What’s the difference between the two? What legal ethics issues do retainers and advances create? Professor Barbara Glesner Fines of the University […]

 Character Evidence for Impeachment of a Witness – Arthur Best | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Evidence about a person’s character for impeachment purposes gets treated differently from evidence about a person’s character to show how he or she acted out of court. What are these differences and why does the law have them? When a party wants to show how someone acted out of court, using character evidence for that […]

 Causation: Criminal Law vs. Torts – Leslie Yalof Garfield | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this Lawdible, Prof. Leslie Yalof Garfield of Pace Law School discusses the principles of causation, a concept addressed in several first year courses. Professor Garfield points out the difference and similarities between proving causation in Tort and proving causation in Criminal Law. The discussion clearly highlights how the two concepts should be treated in […]

 Character Evidence: Evidence law’s anti-propensity inference rule and its exceptions. – Arthur Best | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Why does so much evidence about a defendant’s character get admitted, even though the law supposedly rejects the propensity inference? This question highlights a fundamental problem in evidence law – the shaky rationale for the anti-propensity rule, and the complications surrounding the many exceptions to the rule. Professor Arthur Best will address these issues and […]

 How to select case law when writing a legal memo on a state law issue – Karin Mika | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Writing a memo on a state law issue involves understanding the nature of jurisdiction and judicial hierarchy.  In case selection, the researcher is confronted with selecting the best cases that explain the law as well as selecting supplemental cases that provide for the best factual analogies. In this Lawdible, Professor Karin Mika of Cleveland-Marshall College […]

 Suspect’s Right to Counsel – Edwin Butterfoss | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Both the fifth and the sixth amendments’ rights to legal counsel may apply when authorities are seeking information from a suspect. But how are these rights different? And in what situations do either of these rights apply? In this Lawdible, Suspect’s Right To Counsel, Professor Edwin Butterfoss of Hamline University gives you a very straightforward  […]

 Legal Issues in Cohabitation of Unmarried Couples – Len Biernat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

How can unmarried adults protect their interests when living together outside of marriage? In this Lawdible, Professor Len Biernat answers this question and other legal issues involved in the cohabitation of unmarried couples. Along the way, he covers issues of family law and contract law that go along with this situation. Audio: Legal Issues involving […]

 Hearsay: Truth of the Matter Asserted Questions – Arthur Best | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

The standard, broad definition of hearsay is “an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of whatever it asserts.” The last part of the hearsay definition (“the truth of the matter of whatever it asserts”) is essential to understanding hearsay, but that part can be tricky for law students who first learn the hearsay rule. […]

 Can Simple Attorney Negligence Equal Incompetence? – Barbara Glesner Fines | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

In this Lawdible, Prof. Glesner Fines discusses a common question students have in her Professional Responsibility course: can a simple mistake, amounting to nothing more than negligence on the part of the attorney, equal incompetence and leave an attorney open to disciplinary action? We know that simple negligence (for example, a missed filing deadline) can […]

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