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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This episode from our series “Law Every 1L Should Know” covers three intentional torts against the person — assault, battery, and false imprisonment. We explain the doctrine of transferred intent and walk through each tort’s elements before applying the law to a fact pattern at the end.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we’re discussing the ways in which we recommend using AI as a support tool after doing the hard work yourself, rather than outsourcing the thinking that law school is designed to develop.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today’s episode covers proximate cause in torts (and the related legal principles of intervening and superseding causes in the chain of causation). We look at an important case in U.S. tort law — Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. And at the end we go through a fact pattern demonstrating how to apply each concept step by step.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we walk law students through how to use midterm feedback to diagnose outlining problems. We provide a practical framework for building effective outlines — covering linear outlining, flowcharts, attack plans, and the importance of learning through context rather than relying on borrowed or AI-generated materials.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we have another episode in our series “Law Every 1L Should Know”, and this one is on civil procedure – specifically, subject matter jurisdiction and removal. We cover the relevant rules from 28 U.S.C. Section 1331 and 1332 and we work through a fact pattern to see how the law gets applied.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we explore how AI tools can support law students with ADHD, dyslexia, or other learning differences — covering strategies like text-to-speech for dense reading loads, dictation to capture thoughts after class, converting handwritten notes, executive functioning scaffolding, and backwards planning for big projects.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, as part of our series presenting law that 1Ls should know, we cover contract expectation damages under the common law — the standard putting the non-breaching party in the position they would have been in had the contract been performed. We look at what damages may be claimed as direct, consequential, and incidental, and analyze a hypo where we calculate the damages.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re talking about the widely varying AI policies at law schools, highlighting the productive, permissible uses of AI tools and cautioning against possible pitfalls and honor code violations.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we’re exploring some complex aspects of criminal law that frequently appear on exams — the felony murder rule and causation in homicide cases. We have included an analysis of two hypothetical scenarios to illustrate these legal principles.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! We’re continuing the discussion from last week on crimes against the person. In the previous episode, we covered the basic elements of assault, battery, false imprisonment, and kidnapping, and walked through a scenario involving these crimes. Today, we’ll build on that foundation by analyzing more complex hypotheticals that test the boundaries of these offenses.

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