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Skillman Lawyer’s Quote
“I wanted to put in writing the impact your course had on me when I was a first year law student at the University of Minnesota …. The course provide me with analytical and test-taking skills that provided invaluable in my law school career, and afterwards as a law clerk with the Honorable Gerald W. Heaney, Eight Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable John M. Mason, Magistrate Judge, U. S. District Court for Minnesota.”
Graduate, the University of Minnesota School of Law
The eight-hour Basic Exam Course™ is available online 24/7 via video streaming and includes three classes. The Basic Exam Course™ was formerly called Study Methods Which Produce Excellence. The Skillman study methods course has been sponsored by numerous ABA-approved law schools, the Oregon State Bar, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Council on Legal Education Opportunity Program (CLEO), and the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, among others. The course available online was sponsored by the Minnesota Association of Black Lawyers.
Professor Nerissa Shklov Skillman, a graduate of Berkeley Law School and Founder of The Skillman Method™, believes ALL motivated law students deserve to have the tools to EXCEL. Over the course of her forty+-year career, more than 20,000 students have attended her study methods and bar preparation courses.
Class 1: How to Excel in Law School
The class is approximately three hours and includes two breaks. Topics covered in Class 1 are
- How to schedule time realistically
- The four phases of study
- How to set up a Preparation List and calendar time
- How to recognize and understand the operative value system
- How to recognize the potential for value conflicts and resolve them
- What it means to think like a traditional lawyer
- How to read and brief cases
- How to take class notes
- How to make a Short Outline for each course
- How to feel comfortable while learning the law well
