Recognizing the substance

On law school exams there is an important skill called issue spotting. It works a bit like this

If you are too lazy to click the link it's a clip from Indiana Jones 3 where the dialog goes:

Elsa: What's this one?
Indiana: The Ark of the Covenant.
Elsa: Are you sure?
Indiana: Pretty sure.

Ideally in Law school they would teach you the substance of the law by having to get important clues from your ex/offspring of your former teacher only to be interrupted by gun-toting Nazis in the process, followed by a day of digging in the desert, followed by being tossed into a pit full of snakes, followed by holding on to a submarine for hundreds of nautical miles, followed by witnessing the judgment come down wherein it looks like you've lost but then all of adverse parties and their advocate have their faces melted off, but then you can't collect on the judgment because a federal agency is within its discretion to seal all the records and anyway all the facts must be held in confidence through sancrosanct rules. But at least you've learned something.

unfortunately, all they can really do is make you puzzle through the hieroglyphics of these adventures and be amazed.