Perspective
Nov. 26, 2014
First, stop reading cases on your computer
Even though we often think of computers as facilitating interaction, for reading cases, computers don't give us the meaningful interaction we need. By J. Angelo DeSantis
In law school, so much rides on your ability to read a case. But you're probably making that job much harder. By failing to do one simple thing, you're spending more time reading cases and getting less out of them.
That simple thing: print the case before you read it.
And the corollary: stop reading cases on your computer.
Here's why computers undermine your ability to understand the case:
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