Law School: Case Briefs

The below excerpt about briefing cases is from Professor David Hricik's Law School Basics (Amazon).


Briefing Cases

“Briefing cases” is something you will hear a lot about even before your first day of class. Everyone will be talking about how it is important to “brief” the cases you are assigned to read before the class begins. What is a case brief?

It is not what lawyers call “briefs,”