The reading of legal cases for law undergraduates
Abstract: The most important and essential skill for law students is aiming at the ability of reading legal cases for success. The fundamental aptitude of law undergraduate is the main key for sources. The one who are capable of reading judicial cases effectively and efficiently can succeed in this career. The challenge emitted from the aspects such as language, time management and nature of legal case. It doesn't cover the problems of crucial skill such as learning process. Learning vocabulary and gaining knowledge in vocabulary is essential for the learners. It emphasis the importances of critical thinking, enhance the variety of learning, teaching method and gives a model for learning.
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Techniques to read the case: Reading is the important skill for the the professionals. Reading the case is the first step to get into the case legally. Reading techniques includes five steps 1. Surveying and predicting: The first and foremost step is surveying and predicting the case. It includes what is the purpose to read the text, on what basis the text is detailed, survey it to big picture. 2. Skimming: Skimming is the fast reading in which the paragraph is reduced to 1/4th when the get idea of the paragraph. Once the idea is predicted then jot out the points. Tips for skimming is to identify the topic sentence, read fast, leave out the materials. 3. Scanning: Scanning is the process of highlighting the main point given in the text. By which it is useful for future reference. Tips for scanning is to keep the clue word in mind, scan quickly, make accuracy of content. 4. Schematising: Schematising is nothing but a but the schematic representation of text. It is of two types based on text one is based on case another is based on article or book. If schematising is done for case then it is important to know facts of the case, relationship and background of the party, current issue related to the
To understand the reading one, have to understand and be able to identify the themes emphasized in the book. One of the main
After analyzing the discourse community of law and the detailed process lawyers take in order to write an effective appeals brief, one can see that lawyers have a very specific and unique way of communicating that includes certain jargon unfamiliar and possibly incomprehensible to the general public. Although writing an appeal brief is only one aspect of many that government prosecuting attorneys such as Kenny Elser face in their jobs on a daily basis, it is also a very necessary job because not only is it used by a single discourse community in the law profession but utilized by the discourse community of law as a whole.
I find it easier expressing myself through words and understanding other individual 's thoughts and actions through speech and writing. By studying a piece of text I am able to retrieve a lot of relevant information from it, I find this an easy way to learn because I reflect back by making notes so I am able to look back on notes for situations such as assignments and revision for exams. This is why I find reading techniques such as skim and scan reading difficult because I need to read a piece of text, highlight the important information and make notes to ensure that I have gained a good understanding. I could possibly improve an approach for my reading by looking at step by step guides to skim and scan reading online. This could help for large amounts of reading which I have to read quickly in seminars and lectures and to draw only the important information
improve any paper. By rereading, I catch the silly grammatical errors such as having “the the” or just
Spokane Industries has contracted Franklin Electronics for an 18 month product development contract. Franklin Electronics is new to using project management methodologies and has not been exposed to earned value management methodologies. Even though Franklin and Spokane have worked together in the past, they have mainly used fixed-price contracts with little to no stipulations. For this project, Spokane Industries is requiring Franklin Electronics to use formalized project management methodologies, earned value cost schedules, and schedules for reports and meetings. Since Franklin Electronics had no experience with earned value management, the cost accounting group was trained in the methodology in order to bid for the project.
When it comes to reading in general however, I annotate quite often. According to the passage, "Annotating as you read is a powerful method for making sure you have something relevant to say about a given text" Making little comments about what I read helps me to remember what has happened. I
Moot courts also teach professionalism and ethics to students of law, to apply law to fact, to structure and rank a legal argument by strength, and not to assert losing propositions. They provide law students opportunities to improve their legal writing, legal research, and oral advocacy in a competitive environment that prepares students for a competitive world. The moot court experience is perhaps the most important activity in law school. It is the activity that fully develops the skill every lawyer must possess: advocacy. Regardless of practice area, all lawyers must communicate in a way that advances their client’s interests, whether in a courtroom or boardroom. Most important, moot court builds character. Every student competitor “will be a better lawyer, and a better person, because of the moot court experience.”
If a person has a problem, that needs to be addressed in a court venue, it is likely that person will bring the problem to an attorney. Competence comes with the ability, of an attorney, to know where to find the answers to their client’s problems. Legal research is the process of finding the key facts of the case, and applying them to the cause of action. Research good case law and match it to the elements in the case. The hope of an attorney is to create an argument in court that is indisputable.
Leonard Prescott, vice president and general manager of Weaver-Yamazaki Pharmaceutical of Japan, believed that John Higgins, his executive assistant, was losing effectiveness in representing the U.S. parent company because of an extraordinary identification with the Japanese culture.
1. What are the relevant facts of this case? [7 marks] The pursuer, in this case, is the father and he sought a specific issue order that the two children from his relationship with the defender, the mother, be known by the name registered on their respective birth certificates. The defender also sought a specific issue order that the children be known by her surname by swearing to statutory declarations to that effect.
According to Temple et. Al, there are components for reading. “Reading is the act of getting meaning from a written text.” (Temple & Ogle & Crawford & Freppon, 2005, p.7) There are steps to learn to read; first step is “word recognition.” This activity is that readers recognize letters and words. Next step is “phonemes” which is the smallest sounds in language. Readers who in “phonemic awareness” are able to know how to make sounds with letters. In “comprehension” step, readers are able to understand what they are reading. They can improve reading ability by expanding knowledge of vocabulary. If they can understand words faster than previous time and accurately, they are on “reading fluency” step. The last step, which is “interpretation” or also known as “critical reading”, is a time when they are able to understand author’s thought and mind by reading their words and arguments. National Reading Panel categorized literacy by areas of alphabetic, fluency, comprehension, teacher education and reading instruction, computer technology, and reading instruction. Alphabetic includes
However, he argues that legal skills which are designed to promote legal reasoning are taught in a way that completely mystifies law students. What is more, he asserts that law schools methods of teaching legal reasoning skills are taught badly. He comments that there is three mystifying parts to the process of legal reasoning and they are as follows: rigorous analytical class discussions, teaching of unconnected legal principles and teaching legal skills in isolation from practical experience. I disagree with Kennedy’s argument on the first two points, Firstly, I believe it is important to rigorously tease out issues and analyse case law thoroughly as critically evaluating judgments is a prerequisite when entering the legal profession.
Researching and Making the Court Papers: The Lawyers have to brief the court about the case well in advance about the issues to be discussed.
Lawyers are hired by people and by businesses to help them in legal cases (“Lawyer”Whats para.1). Your skills in the field of lawyering will only improve with on the job training (“Lawyer” What’s para. 4). Almost all of your training will come from on the job by actually going out there and trying and learning from your mistakes (“Lawyer” What’s para. 5). Th...
It is important that when selecting complex text educators look for specific factors that would meet each reader’s needs. These factors include language proficiency, background knowledge and experiences, and level of motivation. Depending on the factors mentioned, the educators can differentiate the instruction to meet the needs of the students where they could read a text and apply strategies learned. It is important to understand the text complexity because we do want readers to read text which are not challenging enough or that are extremely challenge that would make their self-efficacy low. Therefore, when Fisher & Frey (2012) stated the factors to take into consideration when selecting a text are established, readers would interact with the text. Moreover, the use of comprehension strategies like question and answer relationships (Reutzel & Cooter, 2016) would help the readers comprehend the text as they read