LSAT Life
This section of the LSAT tests your ability to identify flaws in arguments.
What is Logical Reasoning?
First year of law school, known for being the most intense, is called this.
What is 1L?
"Res ipsa loquitur" translates to this in English
What is "The thing speaks for itself"?
Nicole works in this team at JLC.
What is the Legal Assistant Team?
1215 Fourth Avenue Suite 1630, Seattle, WA 98101
What is JLC's address in Seattle?
True or False: You can take the LSAT more than once.
What is True? Up to 3 times per year
This Latin phrase means "Friend of the court" - a brief filed by a non-party.
What is amicus curiae?
This term describes a judge's written explanation of a ruling.
What is an opinion?
This is the type of litigation Nicole has been supporting - one that represents people who've been wronged, not corporations.
What is a plaintiff-side law firm?
Filing a document with the court after the deadline is called this
What is a late filing?
This score, sent to law schools, averages all of your LSAT attempts.
What is the LSAC score report?
This famous teaching method, used in law school, involves the professor cold-calling students to discuss cases.
What is the Socratic Method?
What is an appellant's brief?
Nicole's role has been primarily supporting this initiative.
What is JLC's expansion to Washington! (?)
A statute of limitations is important because it sets this for filing a lawsuit.
What is the deadline?
The LSAT tests this skill when it asks you to read a dense passage and answer questions about it.
What is Reading Comprehension?
Law school exams are typically this format - one high-stakes test at the end of the semester.
What is a final exam?
This doctrine means the court will follow prior decisions.
What is stare decisis?
Nicole will need to pass this two-day test after graduating law school in order to practice law.
What is the Bar Exam?
When you Bates-stamp a document, you are adding this to each page.
What is a sequential number?
What is 180?
This document, submitted to law school admissions, is your most personal piece of writing in the application.
What is the personal statement?
This type of law covers wrongs committed against individuals - not crimes - and includes personal injury.
What is tort law?
This is what we call is when the LA team throws a party to celebrate someone heading off to Law School - like today!
What is a send-off?
This is the name for the list of all documents, motions, and filings in a case.
What is the docket?