That is, as always, up to you. In one of your classes, have you finished a topic and started a new one? Then it might be time to throw a few small things together for your outline.
I have more advice on outlines here. I have exam advice as well.
Category Archives: Outlines
Outlines – Flow Charts & Attack Plans
Exam Time: More of my posts on exams: Exam Advice
I view a flow chart or an attack plan as separate from the outline. The outline is to organize the material in your head. The flow chart and attack plan are for helping you analyze and answer an exam question. First we will talk about Attack Plans because they are simpler. I don’t have much to say about Flow Charts as you’ll see below.
Note: any attack plans below are simplified or outright incorrect. Use them only as examples to create your own.
Outlines – First Steps
Outlining is one of the biggest tasks that you will have to do whilst in law school. The general advice everyone will tell you about your outline is “do what works for you.” If you are like me, you say in response, “I have no idea what works for me yet! I haven’t taken a law school exam.”
Now, after four semesters, I can give you the same advice: do what works for you. But I’ll give you a little bit more as well.
Outlines are, essentially, an organization of the legal rules that you learned in class. The most important reason that you do an outline is that you tie all of the class together into a cohesive whole.
