Case Deconstruction
Take apart a published case: map every claim-warrant-impact chain, find the two weakest links, and rebuild them stronger.
Take a case, either one of yours from last topic or a sample case from a brief. Draw its skeleton on paper, breaking every contention into claim, links, internal links, and impact. Use arrows. Every arrow is a place the case can be attacked.
Circle the two weakest arrows, meaning the causal steps with the least evidence or the most assumptions. Write out how you would attack them if you were the opponent.
Then rebuild: find better evidence for those links, restructure the contention so it needs fewer steps, or cut the contention if it can’t be fixed. Cases lose on their weakest arrow, not their best card. Once you practice this, you start seeing the arrows in your opponents’ cases the first time you hear them.