TDot’s Tips: “A penny for your [outlines]?”

In addition to law school Orientation — if you’re a NCCU Law 1L, make sure to  read yesterday’s Orientation entry — this is the time of year where the 2Ls and 3Ls start hitting up everyone they can to accumulate outlines for the upcoming year

Starting last year I’ve tried to compile as many of those as I can and bundle them into a ZIP file hosted here on law:/dev/null. If you’re looking for outlines, follow these steps:1

1. In your browser’s address bar, type in the base URL for this blog; if you came to this specific entry’s page and don’t know the base URL, just click this link to go to the law:/dev/null main page
2. After the “.com/”, if you’re a 1L you’re going to type in “docs/1LStuff.zip” (without the quotation marks), or “docs/2Land3LStuff.zip” (also without the quotes) if you’re a 2L or 3L.

If you have any trouble with that, send me an email (address at the bottom of our About page) or contact me on Twitter.

Now for some obligatory caveats and 1 contractual obligation on your part:

• On the contractual obligation side:  in exchange for downloading this file, you’re agreeing to help spread the word to your colleagues at the law school about its existence; I want everyone to have access to the outlines, even if they don’t necessarily take advantage of the opportunity to download them.
• These files are large, and they come from a lot of different sources so there are some duplicates. If you’re on a Mac, the easiest way to find what you need is to use Spotlight; if you’re on a PC… well… I don’t know how to help you on that one
• Many of these outlines will need updating. The 1L classes introduce new cases, and many of the 2L and 3L classes have either new cases (CrimPro) or new statutes (ZombieLaw) or both.
• These outlines are for NCCU Law classes, so if you’re one of my non-Legal Eagle readers and download them you probably won’t get much utility from them.
• Most importantly:  the benefit to briefs and outlines is in creating/editing them, not in getting them from someone else. You’ll still need to read for class, and you’ll still need to study. Don’t come back to me in December crying because you have all these outlines, did no work on your own, and then failed your classes.

Hope that helps! I’m heading to bed so I can go help with the first day of 1L Orientation for the Day Program in the morning. Have a great night y’all!

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Past TDot’s Tips entries:

• TDot’s Tips: “A penny for your [outlines]?” (08/16/11) [this entry]
• TDot’s Tips: “Don’t Be Evil” (06/23/11)
• TDot’s Tips: How to Succeed at Life (02/15/11)
• TDot’s Tips: More Final Exam Advice (11/30/10)
• TDot’s Tips: 1L Midterms “Quick Hits” Edition (10/11/10)
• TDot’s Tips: Highlight the headnotes (09/09/10)
• TDot’s Tips: Tighten up your digital life (07/16/10)
• TDot’s Tips: More $$$-saving ideas (06/13/10)
• TDot’s Tips: Tips for the pre-L’s on $$$ (05/29/10)
• TDot’s Tips: Final Exam Edition (12/16/09)
• TDot’s Tips #8: Don’t burn your bridges (02/08/10)
• TDot’s Tips #7: Own your awkwardity (08/23/09)
• TDot’s Tips #6: Sleep! (To be posted)
• TDot’s Tips #5: Tie up loose ends (08/16/09)
• TDot’s Tips #4: Back up. Then back up again. (11/18/09)
• TDot’s Tips #3: Learn to Cook (09/14/09)
• TDot’s Tips #2: Go to class (10/11/09)
• TDot’s Tips #1: Exercise! (11/29/09)

1. Sorry for being so tedious about it, but spambots like to link to file URLs so I’ll end up with folks in Russia or China downloading these over and over again without actually using them if I posted the links directly [↩]

Tags: 3L, CrimPro, NCCU Law, Tips, ZombieLaw