Putting the cool back into law school
From the monthly archives:
This week Above the Law and the Wall Street Journal Law Blog each ran a story about the changing legal industry, both stemming from the release of the new Am Law 200 rankings. The Am Law 200, for those of you who don’t know, is the list of the 200 highest grossing law firms in [...]
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Forget netbooks. If you have a cool $3K lying around and want to piss off everyone who sits around you in class, go grab the Lenovo Thinkpad W700ds, with two screens, a number pad, and integrated pen tablet. You can draw your case notes and keep your solitare game completely off to the side!
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We’ve covered the Three Levels of Knowledge before, but Stepcase Lifehack has turned me on to another trio of levels that law students need to be mindful of: The Three Levels of Concentration. The levels of concentration are about learning to recognize when you are truly distracted, and when you are simply seeking distractions. < [...]
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If the stakes are high enough, someone will always cheat. Maybe I sound like Dr. Gregory House or Dr. Cal Lightman (this post brought to you by Fox apparently)—although they would say everyone lies—but if you get 100 law students taking a test, it’s harder to argue that every single one of them is honest [...]
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If at first you don’t succeed, wait for someone else to make a huge (or half-assed) mea culpa and beg for your forgiveness. Either Useless Dicta is getting thrown a lifeline here, or the district attorney’s office likes to twist the knife after they stick it in.
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Today’s review is a little different. Every day more 0Ls finish undergrad or quit their jobs or start arranging their lives for law school in August. And one of the burning questions many 0Ls have is what type of notebook computer to buy. Mac vs. PC, HP vs. Dell, Thinkpad vs. Toshiba. A lot of [...]
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Ah, One L. The classic tale of Scott Turow’s first year at Harvard Law School during the 1970s. I doubt you’ll find a book that inspires more debate among law students, law professors, and lawyers, especially when discussing it’s value as a prep tool before law school. On the one hand, some say One L [...]
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