MS PT Juris study plan
MS PT Juris · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Legal Reasoning and Analytical Skills
Build a one-page analytical framework mapping issue-spotting, rule synthesis, application, and conclusion to Mississippi bar-style fact patterns
Draft full IRAC outlines for 6 practice hypotheticals drawn across constitutional, contract, and tort fact patterns
Diagnose your baseline by completing 30 mixed multiple-choice items untimed and logging every missed rule in a single error log
Practice distinguishing holding from dictum using three short judicial opinions you locate yourself
Your checkpoint
A 6-outline IRAC portfolio plus a categorized error log of at least 25 entries tagged by domain and failure type
Legal Reasoning and Analytical Skills & Constitutional Law
Apply a three-step analytical template to 10 timed multiple-choice sets of 4 questions each
Outline the federalism boundary between enumerated federal powers and the state police power
Map the tiers of scrutiny to equal protection and due process hypotheticals and justify tier selection in writing
Explain the incorporation doctrine and identify which Bill of Rights guarantees apply to Mississippi state actors
Your checkpoint
A scrutiny-tier decision chart with 12 worked hypotheticals showing the chosen tier and the reasoning for each
Constitutional Law & Contract Law
Analyze speech, press, and assembly problems using forum analysis and the content-neutrality distinction
Identify when state action exists for constitutional claims against private conduct
Outline formation under the common law mirror image rule and the UCC 2-207 battle of the forms
Distinguish express, implied-in-fact, and quasi-contract theories and select the correct theory for given facts
Your checkpoint
A comparative formation chart (common law versus UCC Article 2) plus 10 short answers each resolving a formation dispute in under 150 words
Contract Law & Criminal Law and Procedure
Apply the Statute of Frauds writing requirement and its exceptions to land, surety, marriage, one-year, and goods transactions
Analyze consideration, promissory estoppel, and the preexisting duty rule in modification scenarios
Outline the elements of the major inchoate and completed offenses, including mens rea levels and causation
Sequence arrest, search, interrogation, and identification procedures against Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment requirements
Your checkpoint
A two-part synthesis memo of 1,200 words resolving one contract problem and one criminal procedure problem end to end
Milestones
Week 4: Score at least 65 percent on a self-assembled 40-question mixed set covering domains 1 through 4, and confirm every missed item has a corrected rule entry in the error log
Week 6: Complete at least 60 timed multiple-choice items across all domains with a rolling accuracy of 70 percent or better, and show that no domain falls below 55 percent
Week 8: Complete one full-length timed simulation, score it, and produce a written remediation list naming the three weakest rule areas with a re-study action for each