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Living Concept Maps
Maps of how legal ideas connect that move. Press Play and the map builds one idea at a time; hover to light up what an idea connects to; click for the definition, the minimum requirements, an example and the usual trap; or trace a short case through the map.
Foundations of Law
How a Contract Is Formed
An animated, interactive map of contract formation: offer, acceptance, counter-offer, consideration, capacity and writing, with short cases you can trace through it.
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Legal Reasoning
An animated, interactive map of legal reasoning: the legal syllogism, reasoning from rules and precedent, building an argument, fallacies, facts and proof, and the strongest counterargument.
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Remedies
An animated, interactive map of civil remedies: the remedial map, damages, limits on damages, restitution, specific performance and injunctions, declarations and costs, and choosing and enforcing a remedy.
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Criminal Law
An animated, interactive map of criminal law: act, mental state and concurrence, homicide, crimes against persons and property, inchoate offenses, accomplices and defenses.
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Constitutional Law
An animated, interactive map of US constitutional law: the supremacy of the Constitution, judicial review and justiciability, federalism, separation of powers, equal protection and due process, and the First Amendment.
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Property Law
An animated, interactive map of property law: estates in land and future interests, concurrent ownership, landlord and tenant, the transfer of land, easements and covenants, and land use regulation and takings.
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Tort Law
An animated, interactive map of tort law: intentional torts, negligence (duty, breach, causation, damages), defenses, strict liability, products and vicarious liability, and defamation and privacy.
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Public International Law
An animated, interactive map of public international law: sources and core doctrines, state responsibility, the use of force and international crimes, trade, the sea and intellectual property, the United Nations and the ICJ and ICC.
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Business Law
An animated, interactive map of business law: choosing a business entity, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, sales and secured transactions, negotiable instruments and agency, and mergers and securities regulation.
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Evidence Law
An animated, interactive map of evidence law: relevance, character evidence, hearsay and its exceptions, witnesses and impeachment, expert testimony, privileges and authentication.
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The History of Law
An animated, interactive map of the history of law: ancient codes, Roman law from the Twelve Tables to Justinian, the civil law tradition, the common law tradition and legal Latin.
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Law Enforcement and the Constitution
An animated, interactive map of law enforcement and the Constitution: police authority and the Fourth Amendment, arrest and detention, the rights of the accused, use of force, evidence and courtroom procedure, ethics and accountability.
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The Legislature
An animated, interactive map of the legislature: sources of law, the structure and powers of Congress, how a bill becomes law, presidential action and statutory interpretation.
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Courts and the Judiciary
An animated, interactive map of courts and the judiciary: court hierarchy, the US dual system of state and federal courts, comparative judicial structures, constitutional review and specialised courts, and prosecutors.
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Administrative Law
An animated, interactive map of administrative law: the administrative state, rulemaking by notice and comment, adjudication and enforcement, judicial review of agency action and agency accountability.
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Equity and Trusts
An animated, interactive map of equity and trusts: equity and equitable remedies, creating a trust, the duties of trustees, equitable doctrines and trusts in practice.
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Civil Procedure
An animated, interactive map of US civil procedure: jurisdiction and venue, pleadings and joinder, discovery and pretrial adjudication, the Erie doctrine and trial, and preclusion and appeals.
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Family Law
An animated, interactive map of family law: marriage and annulment, divorce and jurisdiction, property division and support, child custody and support, and adoption, paternity and domestic violence.
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Conflict of Laws
An animated, interactive map of conflict of laws: domicile, choice of law in torts and contracts, recognition and enforcement of judgments and constitutional limits.
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Criminal Procedure
An animated, interactive map of US criminal procedure: the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment and Miranda, the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, the exclusionary rule and appeals and habeas corpus.
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Legal Research and Writing
An animated, interactive map of legal research and writing: research fundamentals, secondary and primary sources, validating authority, predictive and persuasive writing, style and editing, statutes and drafting.
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Labor and Employment Law
An animated, interactive map of labor and employment law: the employment relationship and at-will employment, wages and hours and workplace safety, discrimination, unions and collective bargaining, and restrictive covenants, privacy and arbitration.
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Immigration Law
An animated, interactive map of US immigration law: sources, structure and citizenship, family and employment immigration, inadmissibility and deportability, removal proceedings and relief, and asylum and humanitarian protection.
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Law and Data
The Numbers Behind a Negotiation
An animated, interactive map of negotiation preparation: your alternative, your lowest acceptable deal, their limit, the zone of agreement, concessions and trades.
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From Data Room to Deal Protection
An animated, interactive map of legal due diligence: scope, request list, data room, sampling, scans, findings and the five protections: price, condition, indemnity, warranty or walk away.
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Data Protection and AI
An animated, interactive map of data protection law applied to AI: personal data, controllers and processors, principles, lawful bases, rights, security and breaches, and the questions to ask before using an AI tool.
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Security for Lawyers
An animated, interactive map of cybersecurity for a law practice: what attackers want, the duties behind security, basic controls, phishing and payment fraud, ransomware and the first hours of an incident.
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Legal Engineering
An animated, interactive map of legal engineering: how legal work is organised, finding work worth improving, the ladder from eliminate to automate, working with lawyers, the toolbox, governance and measuring value.
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Process Mapping and Decision Design
An animated, interactive map of process mapping and decision design: drawing a legal process, finding bottlenecks and root causes, turning rules into decision trees and tables and designing the new process.
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Document Automation
An animated, interactive map of document automation: templates and variables, conditional text, clause libraries and playbooks, the questionnaire, testing and running the system.
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Legal Data and Dashboards
An animated, interactive map of legal data: what a row stands for, tidy tables, asking questions, checking quality and bias, metrics that mean something, charts and dashboards, and governing the numbers.
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AI Workflows for Legal Work
An animated, interactive map of AI workflows in legal work: fit of task, prompts as specifications, retrieval and grounding, checkpoints, evaluation, risk and security, and deployment and governance.
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The Legal Engineer Portfolio
An animated, interactive map of building a legal engineering portfolio: evidence and audience, the case study, choosing a project, presenting, positioning, finding work and growing.
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Litigation Analytics
An animated, interactive map of litigation analytics: the client’s four questions, the case table, win rates and base rates, durations, awards, forecasting and scoring forecasts, and the ethics of analysing courts and judges.
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Regulatory Mapping
An animated, interactive map of regulatory mapping: from regulation to obligation, scope, control, evidence and test, with several regimes, regulatory change and metrics.
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Visual Storytelling for Lawyers
An animated, interactive map of visual storytelling for lawyers: message and audience, chart choice, honest drawing, numbers people understand, timelines and diagrams, slides and exhibits.
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Legal Risk Quantification
An animated, interactive map of legal risk quantification: from words to numbers, estimating likelihood and impact, expected value and decision trees, uncertainty and simulation, risk registers and heat maps and communicating risk honestly.
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Checking Legal AI Tools
An animated, interactive map of checking legal AI tools: what the tools do and how they fail, measuring a tool, sampling and validation, acceptance-rate analytics, checking extraction, playbooks and governance.
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Contract Analytics
An animated, interactive map of contract analytics: the contract data model, clause libraries and tagging, cleaning contract data, portfolio questions, renewals and deadlines, benchmarks and outliers and reading results honestly.
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Matter Economics and Pricing
An animated, interactive map of matter economics and pricing: where the money goes, realisation and leakage, estimating the work, fee structures, pricing a fixed fee, staffing and leverage, and tracking and scope change.
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Lawyer Skills
Negotiation
An animated, interactive map of negotiation skills: positions and interests, preparation, opening and anchoring, making the pie bigger, pressure tactics, listening and closing.
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Conflict
An animated, interactive map of conflict skills for lawyers: how conflict escalates, mapping a dispute, de-escalation, difficult conversations, choosing a process and mediation.
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The Client Relationship
An animated, interactive map of the client relationship: what clients want, the first meeting, money and scope, keeping clients informed, advising, bad news and boundaries.
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Stress and Burnout
An animated, interactive map of stress and burnout in legal work: why the job is demanding, reading your own signals, steadying yourself, workload and boundaries, perfectionism, burnout and a sustainable career.
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Time and Priorities
An animated, interactive map of time and priorities for lawyers: where the time goes, priorities, planning and estimating, focus, delegation, systems and a sustainable pace.
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Speaking
An animated, interactive map of public speaking for lawyers: purpose and audience, structure, spoken language, voice and presence, slides, questions and nerves, and special situations.
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Cross-Cultural Communication
An animated, interactive map of cross-cultural communication for lawyers: why culture matters, communication styles, hierarchy and decisions, language and interpreters, time and distance, legal cultures and repairing misunderstandings.
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Delivering Bad News
An animated, interactive map of delivering bad news: why it is hard, preparing, saying it, reactions, bad news to clients, up, down and sideways, and your own mistakes.
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Supervising and Feedback
An animated, interactive map of supervising and giving feedback: the supervisor’s job, delegating, how closely to supervise, reviewing work, giving feedback, when it is not working and coaching.
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Listening and Interviewing
An animated, interactive map of listening and interviewing for lawyers: the listening mind, active listening, memory, the art of questions, weighing what you hear and interviewing in practice.
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Legal English
An animated, interactive map of legal English for foreign lawyers: what makes it different, vocabulary, false friends, reading, writing, contracts, speaking, describing systems and growing.
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Legal Management
Starting a Law Firm
An animated, interactive map of starting a law firm: whether to start, market and positioning, structure and regulation, numbers and plan, setup, first clients and the first year.
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Hiring and Keeping People
An animated, interactive map of hiring and keeping people in a legal team: why people decisions matter, defining the job, selecting, onboarding, performance, retention and ending employment.
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The Firm’s Money
An animated, interactive map of a law firm’s money: how a firm makes and loses money, pricing and billing, cash flow, getting paid, budgets, tax and profit-sharing, and controls.
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Leading a Legal Team
An animated, interactive map of leading a legal team: what leadership is, setting direction, decisions and decision rights, building a team, leading change, culture and leading yourself.
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Working In-House
An animated, interactive map of working in-house: the in-house world, understanding the business, stakeholders and influence, running the legal function, outside counsel and spend, risk and compliance, and your career.
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Careers in Law
Life as a Practising Lawyer
An animated, interactive map of life as a practising lawyer: what a lawyer is, where lawyers work, the shape of the work, duties and conflicts, the craft, the business of practice and choosing a path.
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Life as a Prosecutor
An animated, interactive map of life as a prosecutor: the role and independence, the investigation and file, the charging decision, fairness, preparing and presenting a case, pressure and your path.
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Life as a Judge
An animated, interactive map of life as a judge: the office and independence, the work and the week, finding the facts, law and reasons, running the hearing, ethics and the path to the bench.
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Life as a Paralegal
An animated, interactive map of life as a paralegal: the role, the matter and the file, the limits of the role, research and chronologies, documents and review, deadlines and your path.
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Life as a Mediator
An animated, interactive map of life as a mediator: the role, the process, the skills, from positions to agreements, ethics and suitability, settings and settlements and your practice.
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Life as a Notary
An animated, interactive map of life as a notary: the two traditions and the trust, the documents and acts, identity, capacity and free will, certificates and drafting, fraud and ethics, running the office and your path.
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Simplified teaching maps in general terms, with invented examples. They are not legal advice, and the law differs between countries.