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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This episode is part of the series “Law Every 1L Should Know”, and today we’re delving into real property. We’ll do a quick orientation to what property law actually covers; then we’ll talk about one of the toughest parts of 1L Property — future interests; and finally, we’ll do a deeper dive into adverse possession with a fact pattern at the end.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This episode is part of the series “Law Every 1L Should Know”, and today we’re focusing on torts. We briefly go through a review of the intentional torts, and we focus more thoroughly on negligence, since it is the most heavily tested topic in 1L Torts. To illustrate how negligence is tested on an exam, we go through a sample scenario.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This episode is part of the series “Law Every 1L Should Know”, and today we’re tackling contracts. We cover the three essential elements of contract formation under common law — offer, acceptance, and consideration — and apply the rules to a practical fact pattern.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we explain the neuroscience behind our RAMP bar study tool — which we introduced in a recent episode. We discuss the limitation of working memory, which makes it essential to move legal rules into long-term memory through spaced repetition and scaffolding.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we’re talking about the legal jobs for which grades matter a lot, where they matter somewhat, and where they really don’t matter much at all. We also share some tips for what you should do if your grades so far aren’t what you had hoped for.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we’re discussing the different methods a plaintiff may use to establish the second element of a negligence claim — breach. We also talk about the “res ipsa loquitur” doctrine, and we will walk through several hypotheticals involving breach of the standard of care.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we’re discussing how we’re thinking about preparing for the NextGen bar exam differently — and we’re excited to introduce a new tool we’ve built to help you learn and retain the rules you need to know.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, Alison is speaking with Quentin Huff — Director of Bar Support at Purdue Global Law School — about the NextGen bar exam, which shifts focus from memorization to practical legal skills. Find out what’s actually changing, and what it means for how students and professors might approach law school classes.

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This episode covers law school survival strategies for when you’re overwhelmed and behind on the material. Lee outlines a triage framework — prioritizing class attendance, case reading, and black-letter law understanding. 

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Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today we’re discussing contract law – specifically, warranties and the disclaimer of warranties under the UCC. We explain both express and implied warranties and how they can be disclaimed. We also go through several examples to illustrate these rules in practice.

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