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Ever feel like you’re going to forget something important while you’re immersed in law school? No worries. Student Lawyer has rounded up a handy guide of to-dos—things to not forget as you evolve from a law student to a lawyer. There's lots to accomplish from 1L to 2L
Ever feel like you’re going to forget something important while you’re immersed in law school? No worries. Here’s a handy guide of to-dos.
Law school is a transitional time. It’s several years of preparing to cross from being a student to being a professional. In a short period, we go from being a regular human who doesn’t understand jurisdiction to a lawyer who knows the proper Bluebook rule
Here we are, another school year winding down. 3Ls are gearing up for the big day they’ve long awaited— graduation—while simultaneously thinking about how fast the bar exam is coming. 2Ls are trying to avoid senioritis as their final year awaits. And 1Ls are breathing sighs of relief
As I sat at my computer, trying to find the words to say, debating all the right ways to say them, I found myself surprisingly speechless. So instead of trying to find the words to say, I started writing. Writing anything that came to
Here’s a three-step guide to setting your course for student loan repayment, with a few cautionary tips along the way.
Here’s how you can join the Clooney Foundation and the ABA to achieve legal equality worldwide.
To thrive academically, and pass the bar exam the first time around, you must combat distractions with enormous discipline. You must be on—mind, body, and spirit. To do this, you need to ruthlessly protect your time and put up walls around everything that steals time and focus from your studies.
How can you reduce distractions and make more time for bar prep? Begin by identifying what takes your time. Below, approximate how many hours per week you spend on each item. Remember, there are only 168 possible hours in any given week. _____ Work (keep
I was a tenured teacher with the Detroit Public Schools teaching learning-disabled students. A teacher I was dating persuaded me to consider law school. I took the LSAT and applied to law school. I taught school during the day and started evening classes at the
Back in my undergraduate days, I learned about product life cycles. As a communications major, we studied how consumer products moved in a fairly predictable path from introduction to growth to maturity and, ultimately, to decline. Each phase was accompanied by certain pros and cons,
For those of you who’ve been on this journey with me for the past three years, congrats on finishing your doctoral degree! This is a huge accomplishment and arguably the biggest hurdle toward starting your dream job. Now all that’s left for those who’ll practice
It can be incredibly isolating to feel like your experience is dramatically different from that of everybody else around you and that few others will understand where you come from. That can feel especially true in law school, where the vast majority of students are young, single, child-free
Contrary to popular opinion, there are advantages that come with age, and they can help in law school.
Law school isn’t tailored to students with kids, so create an academic experience that works for your family.
A nontraditional student for her time agreed to challenge a school admissions policy for a cause “so right, so just.”
These lawyers trusted their instincts and took a leap of faith to find their perfect career.
Insurance defense litigator Emily Albrecht digs into a specialty that would mortify other lawyers.
That long-term career plan? It can be limiting. Instead, start with a shorter vision.
Your career may not be a straight line. But if you know what you’re good at, you’ll get where you’d like to be.
These first-in-their-family law students reveal how they built the foundation that many other students already have as they begin law school.
I first developed survival tools and then figured out how to survive without them.
A first-gen law student had no idea how far behind he was in the networking and career category.
Sure, students whose family members are lawyers have advantages. But not as much as they think.
Lawyers who participated in moot court and other competitions explain how they’re still benefitting in their practice.
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