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Southwestern University - College of law Presents The LEX PARETO NOTES 80-20 What is the Lex Pareto notes all about ? We have moved ! Our new website is www.lexparetonotes.8m.com Grab your copies of the Lex Pareto Notes today. Available on your favorite law bookstores on July 2007. Check out our new website for information on distributors. You might also want to check you Zigfred Diaz new blog site at www.zdiaz.com He reguarly blogs about law, leadership, technology, financial management, internet marketing among other things. You might want to check out his "Law students" category as he sometimes write about tips and other helpful articles on how to pass the bar exams. A famous bar reviewer once said, that only 25 % of the articles in the Civil code are going to be asked in the bar exams. The rest of the 75 % will never be asked or if they will be, they will seldom be asked. He quipped “Magiging ka tawa-tawa ang bar exam pag kinuha sa 75 % sa civil code ang mga questions.” This is what the Lex Pareto Notes is all about. The Lex Pareto Notes is based on the foundation laid down by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto. If Pareto were alive today he could say that 20 % of the law are the questions that will most likely be asked in the bar exams, while approximately 80 % of it will rarely be asked or never asked at all. A CAVEAT: THE LEX PARETO NOTES IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE COMENTARY !!! It is not meant as a substitute to codals, reviewers or commentaries. It is a mere supplement your study of the law. It is the responsibility of every law student to know what the law is in it’s entirety. However for bar exam purposes you are to master only the basics. This is where the LEX PARETO NOTES come in. The LEX PARETO NOTES does not support indolence in studying nor does it promote that it possible for you to become a lawyer without truly understanding the spirit of the law and knowing its fundamental doctrines.
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| So what does the “Pareto principle” really mean ?
The 80/20 Rule means that in everything there is a “vital a few” (20 percent) that results in the “trivial many” (80 percent) For Pareto it meant 20 percent of the people owned 80 percent of the wealth. In Juran's work he identified 20 percent of the defects causing 80 percent of the problems Project managers know that about 20 percent of the work consume 80 percent of time and resources. 80 percent of company sales will come from 20 percent of the sales people. 20 percent of the employee will cause 80 percent of the problems. The 80/20 Rule applies to almost anything, from management to science. So why can’t we apply it in preparations for the bar exam? |
"Above, far above, the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power; they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand them: he is incapable of changing them. From the infinitely great down to the infinitely small, all things are subject to them. The sun and the planets follow the laws discovered by Newton and Laplace, just as the atoms in their combinations follow the laws of chemistry, as living creatures follow the laws of biology. It is only the imperfections of the human mind which multiply the divisions of the sciences, separating astronomy from physics or chemistry, the natural sciences from the social sciences. In essence, science is one. It is none other than the truth. " Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923)
Who is Pareto anway ? Vilfredo Pareto is an italian economist. In 1906 he observed that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the wealth. Through that he created a mathematical formula to describe the unequal distribution of wealth in his country. After Pareto made his observation and created his formula, many others observed similar phenomena in their own areas of expertise. In the late 1940s, Dr. Joseph M. Juran a quality management pioneer based in the U.S attributed the 80/20 Rule to Pareto, calling it Pareto's Principle. Dr. Juran reduced this universal principle into writing and gave another term for it the “Vital few, trivial many” principle. |
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How can observing the Pareto principle in the bar exam help you ?
The value of the Pareto Principle for a bar candidate is that it reminds you where to focus your study on. Of all the laws that you have studied and read, only 20 percent really matter in the bar exams. Those 20 percent make up 80 percent of the bar exam questions. With this in mind a bar candidate should spend 80 % of his time studying the vital 20 %. Some people say that we should not study hard but that we should study hard. Definitely that is true, however we should remember that it is more important to study smart on the right things.
Take me to the Lex Pareto Notes now (SNEAK PREVIEW ONLY) ! What made you create the Lex pareto notes ? Necessity has been and always will be the mother of all inventions. There are several reasons why we decided to create the Lex pareto notes: 1.) Most bar reviewers keep on encouraging bar examinees to “focus” on certain things and that the bar exam has a “pattern.” 2.) We believe that,"God does not play dice" and that things that seems to have no pattern really do have pattern it's just that we just could not understand them. (Even chaos has a pattern ! - The butterfly effect or commonly known as Chaos theory.) This prompted us to embark in this arduous task. 3.) If other law schools has their memory aids, reviewers etc., why can't Southwestern University college of law have something that we will be proud of. We were thinking, what could be something that we could make that will be distinct and unique? It would be futile to replicate what others had already done (memory aids, "commentaries", case digest etc..) Hence we came up with "LEX PARETO NOTES" (Although, after initially working on the Lex Pareto notes, somebody informed us that some schools have something similair to the Lex Pareto notes however, we still maintain that the Lex Pareto notes is unique and quite different from what they are doing and that it is an “original” concept.) 4.) Making the Lex Pareto notes also helped us a lot in our study of law. It makes us further understand the concepts that sometimes we do not understand in the commentaries. By analyzing bar exams questions and consulting various sources in finding their possible answers we certainly have read a lot of references for our study. 5.) The most important reason for making the Lex pareto notes is that it will not only help us but it will help other law students as well in our pursuit to be a part of one of the "most noble profession."
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. “ - Proverbs 3:5,6 |
From the creators of the Lex Pareto notes: Thank you for taking time to visit our website. The First edition of the Lex pareto was commenced on the first week of October of 2005. The Edition was finished on March 2006. The 2007 Edition will soon be made available on your favorite law bookstores. The project has been a huge success and up to now, the demand for copies of the project has not dropped. The work has not only gained popularity among law students from Southwestern University, but also from among other law schools not only in Cebu but in other parts of the country as well. The project has been viewed by various authorities, bar reviewers and top notchers majority of which gave their approval and praise for the concept and the tremendous help that it could give those who would be taking the bar. Hopefully someday it will become one of the most prominent review material in the country. This project is dedicated to all who loved us and those we loved. Above all to the one who loves us the most, whose love we never can compare to any one else - God Almighty. To all SWU students, Para sa iyo ang reviewer na to !!!
Zigfred "Justice D." Diaz - Visit his new blog site at www.zdiaz.com Alrey "Rey" Ouano Louella "Loi" Matsumoto Ma. Salud Barillo Dannel "Dann" Fernandez Nholito "Nholi" Dayanan
Soli Deo Gloria 1 Corinthians 10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. "
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