Law school students live and die with highlighters. Highlighting is an art with many different methods. The are two predominant methods, the one color method and the mutlicolor method. The one color method involves highlighting with one color (usually yellow) and making notes in the margins to remind you why you highlighted the particular part. The multicolor method uses five colors and is my method of choice. Each color is significant. My color scheme is as follows:
Yellow - Procedural Issues
Green - Facts of the case
Pink - Plaintiff's arguments
Blue - Defendant's arguments
Orange - The voice of th court
The point of this little blurb about highlighting is that opinions contain mostly the voice of the court and I've already gone through two orange highlighters.
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