Quimbee 4+

Briefs + exam prep materials = worth it. Lectures are average but do have nice visual components.

It’s a must have for law school. Best comprehensive and most in-depth case briefs of any supplemental law school site. Great for review or checking your ability to pull relevant facts, issue, rule, analysis, etc. And also great for those times when you just can’t bring yourself to open the casebook.

The multiple choice and short answer essay prompts are great for review and exam prep. Independent practice of applying the doctrines learned in class are scarce to non-existent. I also find the flash card feature and outlines helpful, but these aren’t too dissimilar from any commercial outline you can probably get for free at your law school (Barbari, etc.).

The content of the lectures could be more comprehensive. It’d be nice if they provided an index of frequently cited cases for the topic of discussion. This would allow students to read fact patterns in which the issue/topic of discussion arose. The lectures seem to be an “outline” read aloud. They do have solid illustrations, though, which I find helpful as a visual learner.

Reactie van ontwikkelaar ,

Hey, Don, thank you so much for yor balanced review! 😃 -Tara

Incredibly helpful for law school!

Easy to understand, well-made videos that highlight the important elements of each case as well as explaining the precedent of the case wonderfully. Not only does it have great case videos, but it also has video modules on major law school classes (civ pro, torts, contracts, etc.) that explain the general topics of the class, and includes quizzes to test yourself. You can also look up foreign law jargon with an understandable explanation of the vocabulary. Unfortunately this does come with a less than ideal price tag, but to me it was worth it. Highly recommend!

Reactie van ontwikkelaar ,

Hi Yankees926! We're so glad that Quimbee has been worth the investment for you. 😊 -Tara

The videos speak way too fast…

Quimbee is an excellent app. It provides a lot of useful information in the instructional videos and in the case brief videos. However, my biggest complaint is that the videos speak way too fast most of the time.

For the past 2 years, the 0.5x speed button never did anything on my account. So I wrote to Quimbee and they fixed it. So I started listening to videos at 0.5x speed but that speed way painfully slow. What I really need is 0.75x speed so that the video is slowed down enough for me to hear it at a reasonable speed but not too slow. The app allows such smaller incremental speed increases of 1.25x speed if you want to zoom through the video but it doesn’t offer a 0.75x speed if you want to listen slower like I do. I wish they would fix this issue.

My second complaint is that while Quimbee has courses on many different subjects, it doesn’t have any learning courses on some popular or specialized subjects like Florida Constitutional Law for example.