Like Highschool?

Law School is surprisingly similar to the experience many students had in high school. In this hilarious chapter, our law students relate the most entertaining aspects of how the ‘highschool’ factor played out during their first year of law school. Even as you chuckle uncontrollably, you will gain crucial insight into the psychological workings of the first year law school environment.

Professors

Law School Professors are the most important gatekeepers standing between you and the finest treasure to be found in law school – top grades. In this important chapter, you will learn how one of your keys to success in law school is knowing how to incorporate the particular aspects of a law professor’s belief system into your exam answers. Here, we will teach you the most important steps you can take to ensure that you tap into each particular professor’s deeply held beliefs and mine out the subtleties that will ultimately translate into points on the exam. Since your professors award the points which result in your grades, it is of the utmost importance that you learn from our law students’ first hand experiences as to how to get into each professor’s head.

Exams

Law School Exams are the single most important topic on any first year law student’s mind. As well they should be. Oftentimes, the grades received in the first semester of law school will reverberate throughout a student’s entire law school experience. For instance, if a law student scores high on their first semester grades, they will have a much easier time finding a prestigious legal job over the summer. More importantly, the way most law firms evaluate potential hires is by weighing a law student’s grade point average over the length of their law school career. Thus, law students who are not adequately prepared for the experience of their first set of grades often unnecessarily weigh down their grade point average for their entire law school career. For this reason, the first set of exams are particularly important in one’s law school experience. In this invaluable chapter, our law students will walk you through the experience of the first set of law school exams step by step. They will teach you the most common pitfalls to avoid and show you the most strategic way to approach this all-important first set of exams in order to maximize your chances of scoring high grades and being wooed by the highest standing law firms.

Competition & Grading

Law School is chalk full of competition. Everyone knows that. However, in this insightful chapter, our law students will explain exactly how law school competition plays out amongst the first year class and how it affects the resulting grades that first year law students are given. After watching this chapter, you will gain a detailed overview of the Law School Curve (the grading system used by most law schools) and learn how you can navigate the curve to maximize your first year grades.

The Corporate Current

Law School contains a strong undercurrent which pulls many law students into corporate law practices. In this revealing chapter, our law students explain how the unspoken phenomenon of the corporate current forms and operates. Every first year law student will find this chapter invigorating in that it lays out the workings of the corporate law current in the most honest and hard hitting way. Those law students who ultimately choose to swim down the corporate law current will find this chapter a detailed examination of the landscape they are going to enter. Those law students who ultimately steer clear of the corporate current will find this to be an encouraging roadmap which will help them do just that.

Issue Spotters

Law School exams are unlike any other exams you’ve ever taken. They are not like the LSAT. Nor are they like any exams you may have taken during your undergraduate studies. Law School exams come in all shapes and sizes. Yet, an overwhelming majority of law school exams are designed to be Issuespotters. In this crucial chapter, our law students will explain the layout and design of Law School Issuespotter exams and explain how you can train yourself to maximize the points you score on an Issuespotter. Here, our law students lay out the detailed workings of an Issuespotter exam in a way which no one ever explains to you in law school. Many first year law students report that they are caught off guard by Issuespotter exams. In this chapter, we hope to put an end to that once and for all.

Gunners

Law School, like any other group environment in life, is ripe with its own political dynamics. In fact, some say that the average law school classroom can have more political dealings and pressures than the halls of Congress. In this hilarious chapter, our law students will relate their hilarious experiences with the phenomenon of ‘gunners’ who have been tried, convicted and deemed outcasts by the rest of their law school class. Our law students will not only discuss the dangers of being deemed a ‘gunner’ but will also lay out the classroom etiquette with which a first year law student can avoid being branded with this unflattering law school label.

IRAC

Law School requires its own specific form of writing. Legal writing is unlike anything you may have experienced in your classes as an English, Philosophy or Political Science major. In fact, legal writing is extremely formulaic. Far too many first year law school students report that they did not master the formula for legal writing until well past their first set of law school exams. In this informative chapter, you will learn the basic structure of the IRAC legal writing formula as well as how to apply this methodology to law school exams. After all, the IRAC formula is an invaluable skill which must be mastered sooner rather than later in order to increase your performance on law school exams.

Law review & Moot Court

Law School has a variety of honors programs offered to first year law students. These can help first year law students gain important real world legal knowledge. More importantly, however, these programs can serve as attractive adornments to a law student’s resume. In this chapter, our law students will take you through a detailed exploration of Law Review and Moot Court – the two most important honors programs offered in law school. You will gain invaluable insight into the workings of these programs as well as the best methods to gain acceptance to such programs. Moreover, our law students will give you an honest and hard-hitting review of just what these experiences entail. Whether or not you ultimately choose to try out for Moot Court or Law Review, this chapter will teach you exactly what these programs are, how they work and how they can impact not only your law school experience but your entire legal career.

The Mental Change

Law School will change the way you think. Many law students report that the first year law school experience reorganized their thinking process and overhauled their analytical abilities. In this enlightening chapter, you will learn exactly how these mental changes tend to play out within your thinking. You will gain specific knowledge of what to expect as your mental processes begin to undergo some very predictable and exciting changes. Most importantly, our law students will walk you through the ramifications of these changes and equip you with the foresight to avoid the complications that such changes can result in. This first hand knowledge will teach you to navigate these changes in a way that is most beneficial to your experience while not alienating those who are part of your life.

Outlines & Other Tools

Law School Outlines are a law student’s primary roadmap to success. This crucial chapter will explain exactly what outlines are, how they originate, and how they can best be put to use most efficiently. Moreover, our law students will share with you their most secretly guarded techniques on using Outlines to gain a competitive edge over your classmates during a law school exam. After watching this chapter, you will gain invaluable tips and tricks regarding Outlining techniques which will help you to maximum your points on the exam and rise above the dreaded law school curve.

Past Exams

Law School tends to be terribly inadequate at providing law students with feedback. Thus, most law students report that going through the first year feels like navigating through a dense fog with a compass that doesn’t work right. This chapter will walk you through the importance of Past Exams, explaining how to acquire and use these texts to maximize your opportunities for feedback. You will be surprised as to how many of your classmates will fail to take advantage of this crucial resource – thereby finding themselves inadequately prepared for exams. Moreover, our law students will teach you how to milk past exams for every point they are worth in order to maximize your exam scores and, ultimately, your grade point average.

Picking A Law School

Law Schools are relatively similar in terms of the curriculum that they teach. However, they can be worlds apart in terms of the methodology with which they approach this material and the importance they place on certain aspects of the law. Moreover, the law school you attend will have immeasurable effects that will reverberate throughout your entire legal career. In this chapter, our law students discuss the pros and cons of high ranking and lower ranking schools as they lay forth the most important factors to consider in choosing which law schools to apply to and, ultimately, which law school to attend.

Reading Cases

Law School reading encompasses 90 percent of the first year experience. This chapter gives you an insightful look into exactly what law school reading consists of and exactly how involved it can be. Our law students will share their first hand stories of how they learned to adjust to the sheer volume of reading as well as how they slowly came to decipher the foreign language known as legalese. Full of detailed advise on how to deal with the reading in law school, focusing upon a strategic approach which will help to prepare you for the Socratic Method in class while teaching you to hone in on the few key sentences in each case in order to best equip yourself for each law school exam.

The Socratic Method

Law Schools tend to employ an ancient method of questioning known as the Socratic Method. What can we say, for all its fear inducing horror, the Socratic method also adds to the excitement and thrill of the first year experience. In this chapter, you will gain insight as to how the Socratic method is employed to intimidate first year law school students while serving the duel purpose of teaching the class the most puzzling legal principles. You’ll giggle along with our law students as they relate their seat gripping experiences in wrestling with the Socratic method. All the while, however, this chapter will focus upon how to use the Socratic method for all its worth and to flip it into a positive experience which will better prepare you for your first year exams.

Study Groups

Law School is ripe with forks in the road. One of the most important decisions faced by a first year law student early on is whether or not to join a study group. In this revealing chapter, you will be subjected to the two opposing views on this issue as the pros and cons of study groups are weighed out by law students who’ve already been through it all. Our law students will walk you through the specific workings of a first year study group as they explain how to go about forming one as well as how to use your study group to best advance the ultimate goal – scoring more points on a law school exam.

Taking Time Off

Law School isn’t going anywhere. In fact, more and more law students are taking time off in order to build some life experience before going to law school. In this chapter, you will gain firsthand knowledge on the specific ways in which taking some time off can help you to do better once you’re in law school. Learn from our law students as they discuss their own decisions regarding when to enter law school and the ramifications that their decisions had on their motivation, grades and, ultimately, their long term career choices. For anyone who’s ever questioned whether it is their time to go to law school, this chapter will shed light on this all important decision. Like many of life’s endeavors, timing is often everything. As you will learn in this chapter, law school is no exception to this rule.

Time Management

Law School is an intellectual wrestling match, an emotional rollercoaster and an endurance trial all rolled into one. Yet, this multi-faceted nature of the law school education makes it more akin to a juggling act than anything else. In fact, the most successful law students are able embrace the juggling act nature of law school and strike a balance between their law school studies and their social lives. In order to strike such a balance, one must master the skill of time management. In this insightful chapter, you will hear some very enlightening testimonials regarding the skill of time management and how it can play into the law school experience. You will get specific advise as to what tends to work and what doesn’t. Most importantly, you will learn about the phenomenon of ‘synthesizing’ the law before your first set of law school exams. Far too many law students report that their sense of synthesis did not occur until after their first set of exams. Needless to say, that’s a bit late. Our law students will discuss the phenomenon of ‘synthesis’ and its importance in your law school exams and, ultimately, your law school grades.

Typing

Law School does not require that you know how to type. Many law students make it all the way through law school without typing out a single page of notes or an exam answer. However, this chapter will provide you with an honest overview of the advantages that typing can offer you throughout law school. Whether taking notes in class, or typing out an answer on an exam, our law students will explore the specific benefits that skilled typing can offer in law school. Whether you have decided to handwrite or type your way through law school, this entertaining chapter will map out the landscape to come and help you to best equip yourself for the law school ride.

Picking An Undergraduate Major

Law School is rumored to favor certain undergraduate majors over others. Many law students report that they chose their undergraduate degrees based solely on a specific intent to apply to law school. Others claim to have chosen an undergraduate degree before they ever even considered a career in the law. In this chapter, you will find out exactly what implication your undergraduate degree can have on your law school experience. Our law students will explore the impact that each of their respective degrees had on their success in law school while shedding light on which, if any, degrees may prove to be the most useful. So, whether you’re majoring in English, Philosophy, Film or Nutrition, you’re gonna want to watch this chapter to get an honest and accurate assessment of just what sort of skill set is crucial to your success in the law school environment.