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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's what people.com says.  I am really trying not to judge and am not a Kardashian-hater, but I just can't based on these quotes:

"[b]The reading is what really gets me. It's so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds," [/b]says Kim Kardashian

“First year of law school, you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts,” she tells the magazine. “To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me.”

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I mean, I don't think that many first-year law students would disagree!  Casebooks are HORRIBLY edited, and hide the ball instead of just setting out the concepts.  The concepts themselves can usually be expressed in bullet or outline form (as anyone who has actually studied successfully for a law school final or the bar knows.)  The one issue where reading is appropriate is to gain a sense of the facts of a case, and how opinions and briefs are written.  But 1L year generally does a horrible job of showing you how to do that.

There are many ways to be a good lawyer and advocate, and having a super high IQ or intellectual sophistication is not at all required for all of them.  I say good for her.  [/quote]

Yes, that's the point of 1L, teaching you to "think like a lawyer", i.e., read a case and figure out the important part, discard the rest.  [/quote]

Whether I agree with you or not, what you said does not refute pp's point that casebooks aren't edited in a way that makes them effective tools.  And none of it means that KK is wrong that reading casebooks is really time-consuming as compared to reading just a summary of the concepts and principles.[/quote]

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