MEE study plan

Distinguish employee from independent contractor status and apply respondeat superior, apparent authority, and ratification to short agency fact patterns.

Map the partners' fiduciary duties of loyalty, care, and information under the UPA, and identify which partnership acts require unanimous consent.

Analyze partnership formation, partnership property, and profit-and-loss sharing defaults, then trace dissociation and winding-up distribution priorities.

Write one-paragraph rule statements for agency creation, termination, and undisclosed-principal liability from memory.

Apply the business judgment rule to duty-of-care claims and test duty-of-loyalty scenarios involving self-dealing, corporate opportunity, and insider trading.

Trace shareholder voting, proxy mechanics, derivative suit demand and futility, and appraisal rights step by step.

Explain piercing the corporate veil and close-corporation oppression remedies using specific factor lists.

Compare LLC formation, member versus manager management, fiduciary duties, and dissolution against the corporate model.

Determine subject-matter jurisdiction, including complete diversity, alienage, amount in controversy, and supplemental jurisdiction under Section 1367.

Analyze personal jurisdiction through minimum contacts, purposeful availment, relatedness, fair play, and in-state service, and distinguish general from specific jurisdiction.

Apply venue rules, forum non conveniens, transfer under Section 1404, and removal and remand procedures.

Apply Erie, Hanna, and the substance-procedure distinction to conflicting state and federal rules.

Draft pleadings analysis under Rules 8 and 12(b)(6) using Twombly-Iqbal plausibility, and apply amendment and relation-back rules.

Classify permissive and compulsory counterclaims, crossclaims, impleader, intervention, and interpleader, and apply Rule 19 and Rule 23 standards.

Define discovery scope, privilege limits, and sanctions, then state the summary judgment standard and the standards for JMOL and new trial.

State the elements of claim preclusion and issue preclusion and apply them to successive-suit fact patterns.

Apply relevance and Rule 403 balancing, and distinguish character evidence, habit evidence, and evidence of subsequent remedial measures or settlement offers.

Define hearsay precisely, then identify non-hearsay purposes, exemptions, and the Rule 803 and 804 exceptions.

Apply confrontation-clause limits to testimonial statements and select the correct impeachment method for bias, prior inconsistent statements, and convictions.

Analyze lay and expert opinion testimony, authentication, the best-evidence rule, and the recognized privileges.

Analyze offer, acceptance, consideration, and promissory estoppel, and apply UCC 2-207 to conflicting battle-of-the-forms terms.

Apply the statute of frauds and its exceptions, the parol evidence rule, and interpretation canons to disputed contract terms.

Distinguish perfect tender from substantial performance, identify anticipatory repudiation, and apply impracticability and frustration excuses.

Compute expectation, reliance, and restitution damages, plus UCC cover, consequential, and liquidated damages limits.

Classify present estates and future interests, apply the Rule Against Perpetuities, and resolve easement, covenant, and servitude conflicts.

Apply recording-act priority, mortgage foreclosure, and landlord-tenant duties to ownership and lease disputes.

Apply the negligence elements of duty, breach, actual and proximate cause, and damages, including comparative fault and joint liability.

Analyze strict products liability, intentional torts and privileges, defamation and privacy, and the economic-loss and NIED limits.

Apply justiciability doctrines of standing, ripeness, mootness, and political question, and evaluate Commerce Clause, Dormant Commerce Clause, and preemption challenges.

Apply equal protection tiers, due process, takings analysis, and First Amendment speech doctrine to government-action hypotheticals.

Apply mens rea and actus reus, homicide grading, theft offenses, inchoate crimes, and the major defenses to criminal fact patterns.

Apply Fourth Amendment search and seizure, Miranda and the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment counsel, and trial rights to police-practice scenarios.