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Most Common Law School Exam Mistake

Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor David Steinberg talks about the most common mistake law students make on exams.

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justaman6972 commented on 10 Dec 2010

@studentoflife01 I know old post,but it does in Roman Law, Capitis diminutio maxima,means the loss of a man's status,when in all CAPS you are basically a slave with no rights whatsoever. Google the latin term and you will find that this is used in our admiralty laws now. See any bank statements,credit card bills,govt. mail with your corp. fiction name on it. All caps is there for a reason and it means its a corporate fiction not a living blood,flesh being. You are not a person,you have a person!

wind0wninja commented on 12 Dec 2010

@justaman6972 UCC is their code; as in theirs, meaning proprietary. Signing is merely the memorialization if the agreement meaning you already agreed to the terms & conditions. Anything else is contempt. Your first appearance in court is not your first court appearance. It's your first appeal. UCC stuff may work fine corp to corp but not against the state. Not when you're a citizen in collusion with it. If you really reserved your rights there would be no offer presented to sign; ab initio.

justaman6972 commented on 10 Dec 2010

@wind0wninja good to see you're still at it man. msg me ,I have some info for you,very useful.Peace...Jurisdiction is granted usually by trickery,the defendant has no idea what happend,hence the reason I sign everything with ALL RIGHTS RESERVED W/O Prejudice UCC 1-207 and say as much when in court,that I am challenging the JD of the court,then they have to prove they have it,and if I didn't grant it they cant have gotten it. Not w/o my consent. Anyway peace.

SnapshotNTime84 commented on 15 Jan 2010

An A answer identifies correctly and fully all issues and subissues raised by the question. It states all applicable (and potentially applicable) legal rules and subrules with precision. It analyzes the facts of the question thoroughly in light of the applicable rules, and explores all alternative modes of analysis where appropriate. Finally, it applies the law to the facts to reach appropriate conclusions.

brymarc commented on 14 Jan 2010

this is a little BS-ish in my opinion ... i am a 2L at georgetown ... while professors don't like "brain dumps" out of a commercial outline ... they really like it when you "brain dump" their words on to an exam ... that is to say ... if you take really good notes in class, it has been my experience that if you just "dump" everything a prof said on to an exam ... you get good grades ...

wind0wninja commented on 15 Jun 2010

@ThomasJeffersonLaw Fascinating no? Doesn't this demonstrate the arbitrary nature of words themselves? That the flesh and blood man is not some broad perception of linguistic syntax? How then can any court have personal jurisdiction over a living being unless expressed or implied?

brymarc commented on 03 May 2010

@MurphGiovanni hahaha ... i don't know what i'd do if i couldn't access facebook, twitter, etc, etc, etc, during class though! i don't know how people used to "handle" law school pre-laptops (maybe the teachers were "actually" engaging?) hahaha

MadPyrotechnicus commented on 20 Dec 2011

This opened my eyes! I had a 10/20 on my first exam of my first year and I'm currently studying for my next exam but I'm afraid to do, what the professor calls, a "brain-dump". Thanks, again!

ThomasJeffersonLaw commented on 25 Sep 2009

Thomas Jefferson has a world-class faculty and we have many Superior Court Judges among our graduates, as well as the District Attorney, Public Defender, and many top attorneys.

fourgrems commented on 02 Mar 2013

Very helpful video. There are many good points. I found the suggestions about looking for trigger words and reading the question at the end to be especially helpful. Thank you.

Kenny Dikas commented on 21 Apr 2012

If you think this is good, read "Getting to Maybe." It goes along the lines of what the professor here is saying using a very helpful 'forks' analogy.

Emily Darling commented on 19 Dec 2011

I was interested in this because someday I want to be able to become a lawyer. I'm only 16 right now, but I'd like to know something before hand o.o..

rainbowdrops22 commented on 15 Apr 2011

This is awesome and really thought provoking! I really need to be more picky with my content and how relevant it is in my answer. Thanks from the UK!

secondeyeris commented on 08 Jun 2009

This video series is very helpful and insightful. Thank you very much, sir!

David White commented on 24 Jan 2011

@ThomasJeffersonLaw : Thanks from Australia ... LEC University of Sydney

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