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Issue Spotting

This lesson explores one of the fundamental lawyering skills, which is to be able to spot issues. This lesson looks at what an issue is, and best practices in spotting them in cases, with clients, and on exams. Students will go through basic issue spotting exercises to better prepare for exams.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the lesson, the student will be able to:

  1. Explain what "issue spotting" means.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to spot issues using "attack outlines."
  3. Demonstrate the ability to spot issues using facts.
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