How Law Affects a Lawyer’s Life
Whether you're considering applying to law school, whether you've been accepted and are anxiously awaiting the...
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The Law School Experience and Your Psyche
For better or worse law school leaves an indelible imprint on your psyche, your analytical approach to...
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Scenario of Legal Education
During recent school terms, record numbers of students were enrolled in law schools in the U.S. and Canada. ...
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Typical Compulsory Courses at Law School
Civil Procedure - focuses on the rules that structure federal and state civil litigation.
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Preparing For Three Busy Years of Law School
Law schools deliberately give you more work to do than any human could possibly manage to do thoroughly—at...
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Strategies for Studying for a Law School Exam
If you have studied your cases for the daily lecture far enough in advance, taken down what the professor has...
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Strategies for Studying for Class as a Law Student
Some law schools send their students casebook reading assignment schedules several weeks before classes start;...
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Strategies for Reading a Legal Case
Are you wondering what an actual case looks like? Here is one, Booth v. Merriam et al, 155 Mass. 521 (1892),...
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Preparing for Your Semester at Law School
You should set aside as much time as possible before school starts to prepare for your classes. Used properly,...
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Crafting Extraordinary Legal Exam Responses
A good answer to any essay exam question will usually include identification of the basic issues or doctrines...
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Navigating Law Books and Reports
Collected reports of cases are periodically published under the direct authority of the courts that issue...
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A Quick Glance At First Year Law School Courses: Torts
The course in torts covers the law applicable to wrongful acts to persons or property, by which others are...
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Property
Property is probably the most complicated first-year course. The concepts and subject matter are relatively...
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Crimes
Law school study of criminal law falls into three categories: substantive, procedural, and constitutional....
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A Quick Glance at First Year Law School Courses: Contracts
The big four courses of first-year law school are contracts, torts, crimes, and property. Generally speaking,...
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Social Skills And Appearance For Law Students
THIS ARTICLE DEALS WITH APPEARANCE ONLY. No substance is pertinent here, but the cumulative effect of these...
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Resources for Succeeding in Law School
This Book Is your springboard, not your ladder. Now that you've seen what the landscape looks like from a...
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Female Law School Students and Legal Reviews
Ms. INSTRUMENTAL GOT such good grades her first year of law school that she obtained a place on the University...
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Strategies for Studying and Test-Taking for Women In Law School
As Men Have Always Known, Small Differences in Measurements Can Make Big Differences in Life Like the...
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Surviving The First Year of Law School as a Woman
Okay,You're in. Now what? First of all, lighten up. You've probably heard the stories about how hard law...
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Arizona Law Students Getting to Bar Early
Recently, the Arizona Supreme Court amended its Rule 34 allowing law students to sit for the Arizona uniform...
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Don't Get Overwhelmed by Negative Media Reports
Since you are already in law school (I guess you wouldn’t be reading this article unless you were) let’s...
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Good News! Law School Is Worth It – Or Getting There
During the recession, with admissions to law schools suddenly going up and law school marketing strategies...
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The Absolute Necessity of Professional Integrity in Student Life
Since you are studying at a law school, it is safe to assume that at some point of time you would be entering...
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Are You Learning, or Just Looking Smart at Law School?
It might sound surprising to you that in-depth research shows the highest percentage of successful law...
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Tweak Your Personal Belief-System to Succeed at Law School
In this article, we are not discussing personal attributes like “leadership skills” or other soft skills...
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Is it Really Worth Having a Third Year at Law School?
Law schools are required for the structured learning they offer, but that learning needs to be disseminated at...
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To Date or Not to Date Your Fellow Law Students?
As a law student, you will read, you will study, and you will have finals. However, some law school...
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1L Finals: How important are your 1L final grades?
Despite all indications and research showing finals are of little value for students and learning, they are...
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Mastering Legalese: Law, Language, and the Law School Classroom
Actually, this article is a brief glance into a book I read recently, titled The Language of Law School:...
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