First Year Program: Gilbert Law Summaries (Law School Legends Series)

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Summary: Must Have for 1st Year Law Students
Review: Excellent secondary source for first year law students. In law school, time is a valuable resource. This program allows you to make more productive use your time by listening to an overview of each first year course in your car, or excercising, or whatever! The summaries provide an excellent "big picture" for each course and build logical reasoning and issue spotting skills. GREAT PROGRAM!

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Summary: Crunchtime Savior
Review: The set saved my life. I just took my first-semester finals and I think I did well--thanks to the tapes. I am the kind of person who doze off in front of books, but tapes keep me awake. More importantly, instead of miring you down in nitty-gritty points, the tapes focus on the important stuff, the most frequently tested areas and they warn you of traps in such a way that the warnings jump out in your brain during exams! For example, Prof. Freer, who was in the Civil Pro set, warns you of traps by saying, "Here is the magic yellow marker moment!" And a few of the traps he warned of did appear on my final! Also you can finish listening to each title within a day, or even half a day if you are diligent. That's exactly what you want during crunchtime--something quick, simply, focused and memorable. I use the tapes as the major framework for organizing profs' lecture notes. But when I take the exams, I am literally following the tapes' outline step-by-step. Some titles are taped in actual lecture halls but some are not--Civil Pro, for example. Personally, I find background laughes quite energizing. And indeed, the profs are very very funny.

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Summary: Cap'n Crunch
Review: This tape series was helpful, but I liked the Sum & Substance series better. The Gilbert series is taped from lectures given in a class room setting. This makes them a little more dynamic than someone simply reading from a transcript, but the tape quality suffers for it. It is frustrating to pay 200 dollars for a tape and hear people coughing in the background.