The Center for Legal Pedagogy loves mind-mapping for law. Creating visual representations of the logical relationships between concepts is a surprisingly effective strategy for law students and lawyers. Law-student blogger Matt has some awesome examples of this technique on his blog , including the example below.
Matt also shares some great flowcharts he created for law school, among other cool ideas for optimizing productivity and learning. His blog is subtitled “Managing Time & Information in Law School,” and Matt certainly appears to be setting a good example of exactly that.