Learning Styles and Lawyering: Using Learning Theory to Organize Thinking and Writing
M. H. Sam Jacobson
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Whether a lawyer, law professor, judge, or law student, whether experienced or not, allare learners, all are teachers, and all are too busy to be inefficient at learning or teaching.Because of the significant responsibilities associated with handling extraordinary amounts ofinformation, lawyers, law professors, judges, and law students must be able to absorb,process and apply this information efficiently. Few students study more hours than lawstudents do, and few professionals work longer hours than lawyers, judges, and lawprofessors do. Therefore, the learning and the teaching that members of the legal community do, day in and day out, must be done efficiently as well as effectively. Knowing something about learning styles will help every member of the legal community to become a better learner, a better teacher, and a better writer. This article provides an overview of the different facets of learning styles, and applies that theory to one of the most important aspects of a legal professional’s writing: organization.