LAW SCHOOL SURVIVAL GUIDE
AI Tools: A new world in class preparation.
Introduction
CoCounsel opens a whole new world for class preparation.
CoCounsel is a chat-based generative AI (GenAI) assistant for legal workflows, analyzing information, such as your class notes, cases, or outlines; and delivering answers so you can maximize the impact of your time, energy, and expertise in the classroom and beyond.
BRIEFING
Hone your case-briefing skills with CoCounsel.
CoCounsel can help you review cases and create handy notes that you can use to refresh your memory before class. To get started with analyzing your cases, just follow these steps:
1. Access CoCounsel and select the Database menu
2. Create a database for your class
3. Upload your case to the database
4. From a new chat, select your uploaded case
5. Use the Timeline feature to review procedural history
6. Review your Timeline and cross reference your case
7. Download your results for your notes
8. Ask follow up questions to dig deeper
Taking notes
Review your notes and ask questions .
The CoCounsel skills that help you brief can help you analyze your notes, as well.
PDF, RTF, DOCX, it's all good! Just upload your notes to CoCounsel to unlock all sorts of ways to review compare and enhance the notes you take each in class!
Compare Notes
Did you and your study buddies come to a different conclusion on Respondeat Superior after class? Use CoCounsel to compare your notes and get in synch.
Fill In Gaps
For when you have that moment of clarity after class, use the compare skill on your brief and your case to see what you missed.
Create a Study Guide
Repetition breeds retention. Cement your hard-earned learning by using CoCounsel to create multiple choice questions based on your notes.
Do you take handwritten notes?
If your laptop dies in class, you can upload handwritten notes to CoCounsel and ask it provide a summary or even respond to questions.
- Summarize
- Ask Questions
- Review & Outline
Summarize
Got 300 pages of notes and not enough time to comb through them?
We hear you! CoCounsel's Summarize skill allows you to choose what important topics you want to focus on, combs through your notes for you, and summarizes them. Even better, since CoCounsel's responses are based on your class notes, everything is footnoted so you can see exactly what you wrote down.
Ask Questions
Do you remember everything that your professor said in class?
In a 15-week course, probably not! CoCounsel lets you ask your notes questions so you can uncover all sorts of information that might be buried in your notes. Here are some of our favorites:
- Can you bullet the exceptions that should I know for the exam?
- What are the important items that will be on the exam?
- What concepts tend to trip students up or confuse them?
- What are the key terms and concepts I should know about [subject]?
Review & Outline
Need a starting point for your outline?
CoCounsel can give you some much-needed inspiration and with CoCounsel's Review skill you can fine tune just how deep your outline goes. Want a 2-page skeleton outline that you can start to fill in on your own? You can do that! Want to combine your notes and case briefs into one 20-page outline? You can do that, too!
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