Page 3 - Practice Matters News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

There's a formula for effectively explaining caselaw Photo of Bryan Garner by Winn Fuqua Photography Legal writers are constantly called on to explain things: how an invention works, how a statute’s wording affects its application, why certain people’s actions do or don’t amount to a conspiracy, why a state statute violates the federal constitution and so on. Among the most difficult and predictably recurrent types of explanation is why a legal precedent bears on a point to be decided. Although every lawyer must be prepared to do this, it’s surprisingly tricky. Just as you know people...

Being an objective estimate of somebody's ability to learn academically is untrue. if you have a tutor, if you have smart parents who are going to read the paper, your numbers will go up. >> it's not just s.a.t.s. >> it's a fundamental question. >> practice matters. >> a kid who grows up in a lousy neighbor may be much smarter than the kid who has tutors. >> but it hasn't been developed. >> the s.a.t. is not an iq test. >> it's supposed to be about learning ability. >> we have a problem here. peter talks about the concept of time at task and this whole show is the whole contravention of time a...