Professor Chelsea Baldwin

Coaching students to law school and bar exam success

Category: Taking Exams

  • For the bar takers – making up rules

    How to “make up” a rule on the bar exam.  As a threshold matter, making up law in real practice is bad (see ethics provisions requiring candor to tribunals), but on the bar exam, it is acceptable as a stop gap measure for one or two things that are just eluding recall when you’ve got…

  • Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1

    Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1

    In part 1 of “Rule statement in informal legal writing,” Professor Baldwin articulates the attributes that distinguish rule statements from other sentences in written legal analysis and discusses the first two attributes in some depth.

  • Framing legal issues in informal legal writing

    Framing legal issues in informal legal writing

    This post delineates the differences in issue-framing for formal and informal legal writing and provides examples of the three classic strategies to frame issues in the time pressures of law school exams.