Law Students

Law school time savers: Typing

Posted on March 25, 2010
This post was originally posted at i don't wear skinny jeans, a blog written by a current NYU 1L.Reposted here with permission.The comments on his post may have more useful shortcuts added since he wrote this text. You should check it out. Also, you should read his blog...

A current law student's advice for the Pre-Ls in 2010: in a word, RUN

Posted on February 22, 2010
This post originally appeared at Dennis Jansen.com and is re-posted with permission.It?s that time of year again. Law school acceptance letters have gone out and the future victims students are trolling the student blogs. My advice? Run. If you?re not going to run, then consider these 5 tips: Do not go to law school just because your humanities major did not give you any marketable job skills...

Kids in law school

Posted on February 16, 2010
A reader asked: I am planning on attending law school as a 1L in the fall but I just found out I am pregnant and would be due in October of my first year. I am now discouraged. When I saw your blog I was encouraged. I was wondering if you had children while in law school and how you managed that?My reply: I had an 18 month old when I started law school with a husband in Iraq...

Outlining 101

Posted on September 24, 2009
This was originally posted at Thanks, But No Thanks. Nobody, the author, alternates with the Legal Underground and writes the weekly law school roundup. Reposted with permission. Recently, one of the test prep companies on campus made the (grievous) mistake of inviting me to come in and speak to the 1Ls on "Survival Tips for Your 1L Year...

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Participation

Posted on September 07, 2009
From my mailbox: A writer described an awkward situation with gunners and people who argue with gunners and tension mounting in a 1L section and ended with a general question about appropriate classroom participation level.If you have to ask, you may be over-participating...

Orientation: Open Thread

Posted on August 16, 2009
How long is it?What did you do?What did you wear? What did others wear? How many times did you hear the words: "You'll find what works for you."

Reality check

Posted on August 15, 2009
This blog has historically tried to be positive -- realistic, but positive -- about law school. When the founders of this blog started it in 2006, the legal market was very different, but even then those of you who dreamed of BigLaw were cautioned that law school rank and grades mattered...

Watch this space

Posted on August 03, 2009
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Posted on August 03, 2009
Welcome to the First (and probably only) Wish I Would Have Known Law School Supplement Give Away (some restrictions apply)Comment below to list the supplements (MAX 3) you would like. Then EMAIL ilovebutterflyfish at yahoo.com with shipping information...

Definitions

Posted on July 19, 2009
Originally posted at Jansen / No.634. Reposted with permission.Huma is right ? I remember reading blawgs during the summer before law school and not knowing what the heck certain terms meant. Here?s a quick rundown of things that confused me, most of which are from the ?definitions? page of No...

Open thread

Posted on June 29, 2009
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What is IRAC?

Posted on June 29, 2009
What is IRAC?Hypothetical: Kim decided to get three star tattoos on her forehead, on the right side above her eyebrow. She went to a well-known and skilled tattoo artist named Ralph who agreed to put three stars on her forehead exactly where she indicated and approved...

Law School as seen on Youtube

Posted on May 19, 2009
First up: at the end of first year Constitutional Law, you will find this video to be hilarious. Really. The Con Luv students from the UVA Libel show knocked this out of the park.Second: my favorite song about law school. I played this at least once per exam period...

Law review write on competitions

Posted on May 04, 2009
Every year around this time, my blog gets inundated with variations on searches for "law review write on". I wrote on to law review, made E-board, and got published (which is a bigger deal at some schools than at others--our law review only publishes three student Notes a year)...

Advice to a New Lawyer on their first day

Posted on February 10, 2009
I wrote this to a friend of mine who was about to start her first lawyer job. Looking back, I think that this is the advice I would give anyone about to begin life as a newbie attorney. Or, if nothing else, I wish someone had told me this before I started my first job...

Round up of pre-L advice

Posted on August 12, 2008
Ok, Pre-Ls: you're getting ready to get started. You might be moving, buying books, looking at that tuition statement, second guessing your decision and freaking out. You're not alone. So to give you something to do this week before orientation, I thought I'd round up what others have said about law school...

Summertime blues

Posted on July 01, 2008
MN asks: So what do you do if you can't find anything? If everything has been filled or you can't afford to go 1000 away from where you are now and it's too late for summer school?For the sake of having a gender for pronoun purposes, I'm making MN a guy...

Waiting for grades

Posted on May 19, 2008
... is one of the worst things about law school. Open thread -- feel free to vent about waiting for grades, rankings, etc.

Reason I love law school #1

Posted on April 20, 2008
Professor Transparent: "We?re going to read this case even though its mostly no longer good law, because its great. It would be like if the Supreme Court overruled Macbeth. It would still be worth reading."

On a positive note

Posted on April 14, 2008
I don't like that "negative" material is the top post of this blog right now. Because I enjoy law school. I love how it has changed the way I approach problem solving. I love that it is been as intellectually stimulating as I had hoped. I love writing exams...

On dashing dreams

Posted on April 07, 2008
I was working an admitted students event this weekend.Preface: I made the choices I made for law school for my reasons. I don't care (much) about prestige or rankings and it won't matter (much) in the work I want. But let us be blunt. Forgetting the US News and the Rankings debate, we can all agree there are the top schools, the also rans, and the rest...

The $$ Shell Game

Posted on March 27, 2008
Life the Universe and Everything asks: Appropriate question??What percentage of your applicants receive scholarship offers. I'm curious here because at the school I'll be visiting, you have to be in the top 25% to retain your scholarship. Top 26% gets you bupkiss...

Admitted students weekend

Posted on March 18, 2008
Life, the universe, and everything asks: I just received my class assignment for my admitted students weekend. I am scheduled to sit in on a constitutional law class. Can anyone enlighten me about this sort of law? The only thing I know of it is Susan Estrich's opinion that it spoils every law student because everyone wants to practice it, but almost no one gets to...

a potpourri of pre-L advice

Posted on March 10, 2008
alright, i see a bunch of different topics in the questions thread, so i'm going to address what i can.the summer before law schoolas far as the summer before law school, Butterflyfish is correct--you don't need a law job the summer before law school...

Summer before law school

Posted on March 08, 2008
From Prue: what should i be doing the the summer between undergrad graduation and starting law school? i am finishing an engineering degree, and to be honest i'm a little burnt out. what i really want to do is be lazy and work in a mindless job, like starbucks...

Hey 1Ls! Hey Pre-Ls!

Posted on February 23, 2008
Hey 1Ls!You've gotten one semester under your belt. You're either happy with your grades or looking to improve. You've sort of got the hang of things but still find yourself spending too much time on legal skills. We get it. We've been there.Any burning questions?Hey Pre-Ls!Acceptances are rolling in...

1L summer: do anything, as long as it's legal.

Posted on February 17, 2008
grades are back, resumes are in shiny, working order, and it's time to hunt for that 1L summer position. the central idea of the 1L summer position hunt is as follows--it doesn't matter what you do, as long as it's something legal. this includes firm jobs, public interest jobs, summer school, and study abroad...

Don't let this happen to you

Posted on February 09, 2008
I was reading a post on a law student blog and the author, in her second semester of law school, was wondering why several of her otherwise perfectly normal classmates have suddenly become asshats. Little did she know its a common disorder seen among the law student population...

Do bar passage rates mean anything?

Posted on February 04, 2008
A reader asks: I have heard from several sources, none of which actually have been to law school, that once a student has passed the bar exam, the caliber of school he/she attended doesn't really matter. What are your ideas on this (and I'm not referring to Harvard or Yale as options)? From what I understand, the bar exam thing you heard is crap...

Go ahead, call me a tool / gunner / d-bag. . .

Posted on January 28, 2008
Law school groupie asks: How difficult is the reading at first? One persons advice was to start reading Hemingway to prepare your brain. I also kind of wonder how much the stress can get to a person. Basically, I'm afraid of crying myself to sleep a lot of nights...

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