Minority Group Activities in Law Schools: Key Questions to Consider
Most fair-sized law schools have activities and groups run by and for minority students. If you are a minority...
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Tips for Taking Law School Exams
READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY AND ANSWER WHAT IS ASKED. Once you have IRAC down, it is critical to remember that...
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How to Correctly Choose Living Arrangements in Law Schools
THE RIGHT ROOMMATE Your living arrangements will have a big impact on your law school experience. Roommates...
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Commercial Outlines by Law Students
Commercial outlines, often created by groups of lawyers or legal researchers, provide organized discussions of...
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Top 6 Tips to Keep Your Social Life Scintillating at Law School
DON'T REINVENT THE WHEEL. You are not the first person to take Civil Procedure. Your law school bookstore is...
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Take-Home Examinations for Law Students
Take-home examinations are often administered during one full day in which the student picks up the...
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The Psychology of Surviving Stress at Law School
By now some of the elements of novelty have worn off. You're registered; you've made it through the...
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Communicating With Other Law Students: Study Groups
“My first year in law school, I studied for Constitutional Law and Criminal Law with four other people. We...
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Interviewing for Legal Employment and Few Tricks to make it Go Well
Every year, thousands of law students across the country interview for a limited number of summer associate...
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Tips for the Final Weeks of the Semester at Law School
ORGANIZE YOUR VARIOUS NOTES AND STUDY AIDS. One common panic expressed by law students at the end of the...
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The Summer Legal Job Search
GIVE YOURSELF SOME BREATHING ROOM FROM LAW FIRMS The first-year summer job search is gruesome, particularly if...
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Tips To Follow Throughout the Semester of Your Law School
READ YOUR ASSIGNMENTS REGULARLY. Make no mistake, law classes require a lot of reading. Sometimes...
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Importance of Working during Law School
To WORK OR NOT TO WORK Working during law school can be very rewarding if you find the right job, with the...
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Tips To Be Followed For the Beginning of the Semester at Law School
Although first-year students have few scheduling choices, at most law schools, second- and third-year students...
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Financial Aids for Law School
Welcome to law school. Now cough up the cash, please. Just because a school has lecture halls, libraries, and...
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The Socratic Method of Teaching Law
Every law student has heard at least one story about a stodgy professor skewering an unprepared student in...
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Extracurricular Activities and Moot Court
Student organizations gain members through a variety of ways. At some schools, special sign-up days for...
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What to Do If You’re Completely Prepared for Your Law School Class
This is, for obvious reasons, the best scenario. You've done the reading, the professor is going to ask you...
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All About Law Reviews and Journals
Journals (or law reviews) are student-run publications that are home for almost all non-judicial legal...
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Attacking the Reading Getting Through the Legal Assignment
Law schools revolve around the casebook. Before classes start, you will be asked to purchase a number of fat...
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Choosing Perfect Law Classes for You
Thanks to the renowned creativity of the legal profession, you'll be taking the same first-year courses as...
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Making the Most of Law School Class Time Taking Notes
Thanks to the proliferation of laptops, law school students are now able to take down nearly every word of...
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Special Tips for Taking Law Exams
Whether you take time off before going to law school or go directly to law school after college, law school...
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Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
The glamorous side of the law! Homicides; Miranda rights; Law & Order, O.J., Kato, and Lance. In fact,...
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How Law Students Can Conquer The Fear Of Exams
Law students, especially first-semester law students, often appear to be preoccupied with thoughts about...
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What to Do If You're Not Prepared for Law School Class
Professors have different policies for students who are unprepared. Some simply ask that you provide them with...
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English as a Second Language: Learning Legalspeak
And that brings up something you're going to have to realize right now. The first year of law school is like...
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Thoughts on the First Day of Law School
You sat there, laughing uneasily, while all your college "friends" made two hours' worth of lawyer jokes at...
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Greenwood Legal, LLC
Personal Life Kenneth A. Greenwood is president of Greenwood Legal, LLC, a legal search firm dedicated to...
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