The Great Change: Turning Cathy into a Lawyer

I've posted before about the extraordinary amount of time my 1L ConLaw class required. The book exacerbated the condition: it was dense, poorly organized, and abominably edited (if it was really edited at all). Among my more notable complaints: already dense and abstract sentences were made more dense and abstract by misplaced commas. It was hard enough to parse the material without essential keys to decrypting English grammar being strewn about randomly.

I am apparently not the only one with these kinds of complaints...

(I do disagree with him though that the entire casebook series is defective. I liked the (Fisher) Evidence book I used last semester and the Contracts book I used 1L year. This semester my (Chisum) Patent Law and Law and Ethics books are also from the same series, and they seem ok so far.)

Housecleaning note: I'm including this post in the 1L process category because it more directly applies to that time period, even though it was technically written during the period of the 2L process.

Edit 1/26: I just took a look at the aforementioned casebooks. They are all blue-bound Foundation Press books, but only two of them say "University Casebook Series," so I'm not sure what, if anything, distinguishes them. But those two were the ConLaw book (bad) and the Evidence book (good) so draw your own universal conclusions.