Thank you to all who came to the workshop on 1L Basics: Strategies for Success. I hope that you took away some valuable information and strategies for success in your fall semester. For those who were unable to attend, this workshop covered some of the things that you may want to think about early in the semester as you're developing your rhythms and study habits: prioritizing and managing time, reading cases with effective reading strategies, and creating and using your case briefs.

Below you will find a recording of the workshop, and below that you will find the PowerPoint slides that we looked at during the workshop - there are some links in the PowerPoint slides for some of the websites I talked about during the workshop. Additionally, I've included some of the articles that I mentioned during the workshop discussion and some other resources that you may find helpful as reference material.

PowerPoint presentation

Examples of different types of case briefs

Article on reading cases - Orin Kerr

Critical Reading for Law Students - Jodi Wilson (this is the article that talks about how to use different reading strategies to approach cases)

Reading comprehension handout

Briefing a case handout