Torts (Siegel's Series)

If you prepare for law school exams by doing problems, as I do, this is a great series of books to use. It doesn't have any black-letter law summaries, so don't expect it to teach you the material, but what it does have are great, detailed issue-spotter problems -- the kind your professors will most likely be asking you to answer on their exams. Even better, it has full essay answers to the problems, so you'll be able to read an "A"-type answer written by a law professor and learn how yours differs from that. I used Siegel's as often as I could during law school and was able to beat the curve more often using their products than anyone else's.

I would have given this book five stars, however, it's not economical. Aspen publishers (publishers of this Q & A series) also publish Finz Multistate Method. The Finz product contains 196 tort multiple choice questions whereas the siegel's tort Q & A only has 92. Keep in mind that these products are published by the same publisher, therefore, the questions in the siegel's series appear in the Finz Multistate Method. Furthermore, the Finz product has Contracts, Property, Constitutional Law, and Evidence questions. However, the Finz product does not have essay questions but you could always google old essay exams and answers. By purchasing the Finz Multistate Method, you'll end up saving more money, have the convenience of having all the questions in one book, and have many more questions.

This book is extremely useful in preparing for a torts exam. In fact, the fact patterns on one of the questions was so great that my professor copied a large portion of it on our final exam question (the ethical side of that can be debated with Emory).

I entered Law School with a great deal of reluctance about any sort of commercial aids, especially flash cards. However, I have since discovered that some commercial aids are helpful with certain aspects of studying. These Torts flashcards have been valuable in helping me learn the elements of the various intentional torts, and spotting those torts in a hypothetical fact pattern.This product should not be your primary means of learning torts, but I recommend them as a supplement, especially learning the elements of the Intentional torts!