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Admission to law school is more competitive than ever, and your LSAT* score is a crucial factor. In fact, two-thirds of the law school admissions officers surveyed last year said the LSAT was the single most important factor in their admissions decision—above GPA, letters of recommendation, and personal statements.

So how do you get that stellar LSAT score? Since the LSAT is a standardized test, you can learn strategies for each question type and techniques for time-management that will ensure your success on Test Day. Kaplan and lawschoolnumbers.com will help you along the way.

One of the hurdles faced by LSAT test takers is Analytical Reasoning, more commonly known as Logic Games. These questions are designed to test how rules create systems of order and limit possible outcomes.

Success on Logic Games depends on paying attention to detail and maintaining awareness of multiple facts simultaneously. You need to turn the game's information to your advantage by organizing your work and identifying key deductions.

Pacing and section management are of critical importance on this section, and time is your most precious resource. One of the benefits of the LSAT remaining a pencil-and-paper test is that you can look ahead and prioritize—almost every Logic section has one easy game, two games of medium difficulty, and one that’s very hard.

This chart shows the Logic Games section results from Prep Test 40. The bars indicate the percent of people who answered each question incorrectly. Questions vary in difficulty from those missed by fewer than 10% to those missed by almost 70% of test takers. The dotted lines show which questions were associated with each game.

What may surprise you is the variation in difficulty among the games. For example, compare Game 3 to Game 4: Every question on the former was harder than any question on the latter.

With experience, it is possible to learn how to spot the easy game upfront. Not only will it serve as a warm-up and give you confidence as you proceed to the more difficult questions, but you also won’t labor too long on the hard ones and risk running out of time. If you leave the easy questions for the end but can’t finish the section in the time allotted, you’ve missed out on precious (and relatively easily-earned) points—Logic Games account for almost 25% of your total score.

Want to try some Logic Game questions? Take the LSAT Strategy Sessions for tips on how to crack these kinds of problems and score higher on the LSAT.

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Adapted from How To Get Sued: An Instructional Guide® by J. Craig Williams

So you want to get sued. Now hold on a minute, here. You've certainly heard advice about how to avoid lawsuits and what not to do, but you think you might want a little taste of litigation? Really? You're sure?

Of course, you can't just walk into a courtroom and demand that someone sue you. You'd be tossed out on your ear, and you'd be wiser to invest a lot of time and psychiatric consultations before you seek that kind of torture. But if you're insistent on becoming a “party,” then it's much quicker and easier to find yourself in court if you give someone a reason to sue you.

Think about it. Why would someone want to go through the effort and expense of hauling you into court? After all, litigation and lawsuits aren't cheap so you've really got to provide someone with a good reason to sue you.

Luckily, this process isn't difficult, and there are plenty of willing participants out there if you'd prefer the sideline seat offered in this book, or if you're looking for a demonstration first. Some techniques are more popular than others, including the tried-and-true favorites among the “defendant set.” I've outlined many of them here, but don't feel restrained by these options. If you can come up with a creative, unique way to cause a lawsuit, then please feel free. We lawyers always like a challenge.

1. Fall in Love 2. Own a Business 3. Commit a Crime 4. Go to Work 5. Live on Earth 6. Have Children 7. Enjoy Yourself 8. Indulge a Few Vices 9. Own a Pet 10. Own a Home

As you can see, most of the ways to get sued aren't unusual activities. In fact, most are everyday activities, even approaching the mundane.

You even may have engaged in one or two of these everyday activities yourself. I'm guilty of some of them, too. But it's how you engage in these common, everyday activities that may get you in hot water--and just as important, what you do to get out of trouble once you're in it.

I Can't Make Up Stuff This Good You may occasionally wonder whether I make some of these stories up. Nope. I'm just not that creative. Don't believe me?

I submit as Exhibit A this opening paragraph from a recent United Press International story: “Police arrested a Texas airport passenger for public intoxication after he was found sitting on a jet bridge covered in salad dressing and missing a shoe.”

Not only was our 27-year-old gentleman (and I use that term loosely) covered in salad dressing, but so were the walls of the jet bridge. You have to wonder what was going on before the police got there, and whether anyone else was covered in salad dressing. If I'm remembering my college days correctly, I'd hazard a definite maybe. Before you reread those paragraphs though again hang on a moment--it gets better. Our apparently drunken hero questioned police--in slurred speech of course--about why they wouldn't let him board his American Eagle flight. At least we can thank God he wasn't the pilot.

I'm about to rest my case here, but before I do, I'll throw in one more tidbit about our hero, as if I need to. He couldn't even stand up. Police had to assist him to get him to his feet and keep him there. Perhaps not too surprising, our hero admitted to drinking vodka in an airport restaurant, which was apparently one of the sources of his problem. The other one was too short of a security line, which obviously gave him too much time in the restaurant.

I am troubled by a few nagging questions however. Where did he get that much salad dressing? Where was his co-conspirator? What was his sentence, and where is he now?