Ep. 27 - Christina Chong - Law School Success: Exams and the Three-Step Method

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03/05/24 • 52 min

On the latest episode of the Law School Lounge, Host Krystal Norton is joined by Dean Christina Chong-Nakatsuchi, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Monterey College of Law. Dean Chong is the author of CAP's The Perfect Practice Exam: The Skill of Legal Analysis. Dean Chong talks about why she was inspired to write this book. She also walks listeners through her "Three-Step Method" for legal analysis; a method designed to help students focus and work through law school exam problems. Throughout their discussion, Dean Chong offers tips and strategies for law school exam success, while also explaining how using her supplement or any form of practice problems can help students learn skills and feel confident during exams.

Please check out Dean Chong's book, The Perfect Practice Exam, here.

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Please check out Dean Chong's book, The Perfect Practice Exam, here.

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Ep. 28 - O'Leary and Martin-Scott - Multicultural Lawyering (Part 1)

We are back in the Lounge this week with two very special guests to talk about multicultural lawyering. Professor Kimberly O'Leary and Dean Mable Martin-Scott of Western Michigan Cooley Law School created a course and wrote a book dedicated to learning and understanding the concept of multicultural lawyering. In part one of this two-part conversation, we focus on the definition and contours of multicultural lawyering, what it means to teach and work through concepts of multicultural lawyering, and the exercises they have found to be the most impactful for students. Dean Martin-Scott and Professor O'Leary share what they have learned along the way, and our host, Krystal Norton, expresses what she has learned through even just this short conversation with these scholars.

The "Five Habits of Cross-Cultural Lawyering" by Sue Bryant and Jean Koh Peters, along with resources, can be found here.
The full citation for the article mentioned by Professor O'Leary is as follows: Albert J. Moore, Trial by Schema: Cognitive Filters in the Courtroom, 37 UCLA L. REV. 273 (1989).
You can grab a copy of "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" by Malcolm Gladwell here.
Please also check out Professor Kimberly O'Leary's and Dean Mable Martin-Scott's book, Multicultural Lawyering: Navigating the Culture of Law, the Lawyer, and the Client, here.

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