The heavy hitters, in depth
The topics the examiners return to over and over, explained properly—every moving part, every trap, with Liv, Lana, Noodle, and Rosa walking through the examples.
Read the doctrine
Each dive walks the whole framework in order—the rules in bold, the connections spelled out.
Watch it in action
Every rule comes with a 🐚 example—the same cast, concrete facts, so the doctrine sticks.
Bank the traps
Each dive ends with the distractors examiners actually write, so you recognize them on sight.
Civil Procedure 5
Subject-Matter Jurisdiction
Federal question, complete diversity, the $75,000 line, supplemental jurisdiction's 1367(b) trap, and removal.
Dive in →Personal Jurisdiction
Traditional bases, long-arm statutes, purposeful availment, at-home vs. case-linked jurisdiction, and fair play.
Dive in →Joinder
Claims, parties, counterclaims, crossclaims, impleader, intervention, and class actions—each device's own little test.
Dive in →The Erie Doctrine
The hierarchy of federal directives, the substantive/procedural line, the twin aims, and the memorized substantive list.
Dive in →Preclusion
Claim preclusion's one-bite rule, issue preclusion's four elements, and when strangers can borrow your loss.
Dive in →Evidence 3
Hearsay
The definition, the not-for-its-truth outs, the 801(d) exemptions, the full 803 and 804 tables, and the Confrontation Clause.
Dive in →Character Evidence
The propensity ban and every door around it—MIMIC, the mercy rule, victim character, habit, and 413–415.
Dive in →Impeachment
The five methods, the 609 convictions chart, prior inconsistent statements, bias, and rehabilitation.
Dive in →Constitutional Law 3
Equal Protection & Scrutiny
The three-tier table, picking the right test, discriminatory intent, the alienage two-track, and fundamental rights.
Dive in →Free Speech
Content-based vs. neutral, the unprotected categories table, the forum ladder, prior restraints, vagueness and overbreadth.
Dive in →Dormant Commerce Clause
Discrimination vs. Pike balancing, the market-participant escape hatch, and how it differs from Privileges & Immunities.
Dive in →Contracts 3
Contract Formation
Which law, live offers, irrevocability, the mailbox rule, the battle of the forms, consideration, and the defenses table.
Dive in →Remedies & Damages
The measures table, Hadley and the three limits, UCC buyer vs. seller remedies, specific performance, liquidated damages.
Dive in →Third-Party Rights
Intended vs. incidental beneficiaries and vesting, assignment's traps, and delegation without escape.
Dive in →Torts 3
Negligence
Duty and the special-duty table, the two breach shortcuts, both causation questions, damages, and the fault regimes.
Dive in →Products Liability
The five-theories table, strict liability's elements, the three defect types, and who can sue whom.
Dive in →Vicarious Liability
Respondeat superior, frolic vs. detour, the independent-contractor exceptions, and who ultimately pays.
Dive in →Real Property 3
Estates & Future Interests
The present-estates table, every future interest named, and the Rule Against Perpetuities with its trap gallery.
Dive in →Recording Acts & Deeds
The three statutes, BFP status and the three notices, the shelter rule, deed delivery, and the covenant table.
Dive in →Mortgages & Foreclosure
Assuming vs. subject-to, the note carrying the mortgage, and the foreclosure payout chart—who's paid, who's wiped.
Dive in →Criminal Law & Procedure 3
Homicide
The four malice theories, felony murder's limits, degrees, and the two manslaughters—graded on one chart.
Dive in →Accomplice & Inchoate Crimes
Aiding and abetting, solicitation, conspiracy and Pinkerton, attempt, merger, and the two flavors of withdrawal.
Dive in →Search & Seizure
Standing, the warrant, the full exceptions table, and the exclusionary rule's escape hatches—one suppression path.
Dive in →All seven MBE subjects, covered. More topics coming as they're requested.