LEX180

Identify the parties and procedural history of a case.

Identify essential facts, significant facts, and insignificant facts.

Write issue statements.

Identify issues in judicial opinions.

Distinguish between holdings and dicta.

Apply inductive and deductive reasoning.

Brief cases.

Identify the different types of rationale on which the courts rely in judicial opinions.

Draft internal and external memorandums of law.

Differentiate an appellate brief from a case brief.

Analogize cases.