S.O.U.N.D. Advice for Briefing Cases:
Getting your case briefs done is a great start, but simply knowing what happened in a case is by no means enough for law school success. To succeed in law school and on the bar exam, you must be able to “see the forest from the trees:” you must recognize that each case is assigned in order to illustrate a legal concept, and that each legal concept (rule of law) you cull from a case is an important part of the black letter law you’ll have to know for your essay exams. Keep the “big picture” in mind: for each case, discern what rule of law the case illustrates and then figure out how that rule of law fits into your overall course outline.
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