Law Handbook With Exercises 3rd Edition In Queens
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There are several ways to become a lawyer in New York. The traditional route is to get an undergraduate degree, take the Law School Admission Test, obtain a Juris Doctor (JD) or Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from an American Bar Association approved law school, and pass the New York State Bar Exam.
General format of a law school exam Your law school exam will generally be a story (called a “fact pattern”). You will be expected to go through the story, sentence by sentence, and spot the issues. For example, you may have a fact pattern like this: Anna is walking down the street, texting her friend.
What is IRAC? IRAC stands for the “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion” structure of legal analysis. An effective essay follows some form of the IRAC structure where it is organized around an “issue”, a “rule”, an “application”, and a “conclusion” for each and every issue and sub-issue identified as a legal problem.
Format Times New Roman or similar, 12 pt font. Double spaced lines. One inch margins all around. Footnotes in academic Bluebook style (use the rules on the main white pages instead of the light blue pages at the front of the Bluebook). Footnotes in same font as text, 10 pt font.
Most professors give essay exams for law school finals. Some are single-topic, short-answer questions. Others can go on for pages — known as issue-spotter exams. Some are taken in class, while others are take-home, allowing students more than the traditional amount of time to answer the essay questions.
There are a number of possible formats for law school exams: long essays, short-‐answer questions, multiple choice, true/false, and various combinations of these types. Exams may be taken in a classroom during a set period of time, or may be given as take-‐home exams (sometimes with a fixed time period or word limit).
➢ IN GENERAL: Criminal Procedure Law § 30.30, also known as “statutory speedy trial,” requires the prosecution to establish its readiness for trial on an “offense” within a specific codified time period after the commencement of a criminal action (which occurs, generally, by the filing of the initial accusatory).
The right to a speedy trial applies to all New York criminal charges including, but not limited to, traffic tickets and misdemeanors. ing to CPL 30.30, the prosecution must be ready to try a felony within 6 months.
22 CRR-NY 202.8-CRR (1) affidavits, affirmations, briefs and memoranda of law in chief shall be limited to 7,000 words each; (2) reply affidavits, affirmations, and memoranda shall be no more than 4,200 words and shall not contain any arguments that do not respond or relate to those made in the memoranda in chief.
The Speedy Trial Act, in contrast, sets forth two clear time limits: an information or indictment must follow within 30 days of arrest, and a trial must begin within 70 days of indictment or arraignment.
