Mastering "it depends"
"It depends" is either the most useless sentence in law or the most useful one, and the difference is whether you can finish it. Depends on what — which fact, bearing on which requirement, still unresolved?
This tool makes you sort the same facts twice. Once on instinct, before you see the rule. Then again with the rule in front of you. The second sort is the exercise; the gap between the two is the lesson.
Why two passes. Being told to "consider the other side" changes very little. Watching your own first sort move once a rule appears changes something, because it is your own reasoning you are looking at — which facts you treated as decisive that the rule never mentions, and which ones you set aside that turn out to carry the whole question. The first pass is never scored. It is evidence.
Ten situations, three levels
Seven of these were adapted from a companion practice studio built on the same method, and rewritten for the two-pass sort. The facts and supplied rules follow their text; every sort key follows their worked analysis.
Stored on this device only.