Putting the cool back into law school
From the monthly archives:
There’s nothing like advice from Jansen to reenergize me to keep blogging after I missed a whole week because work got insane. Saturday, Jansen posted five bits of advice on productivity. The problem is that around this time, 1Ls start to panic. Work is piling up and the new car smell of law school is [...]
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The most vexing questions to 1Ls are not on topics like briefing, highlighters, or resumes. Even a hotly debated topic like the value of rolly bags doesn’t keep law students up at night like outlining. When to start, what to include, how long to make it, what tools to use, and the value of groups [...]
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If you’re not familiar with it, the National Association of Legal Placement (NALP) is the organization which oversees and governs legal recruiting. Governs might be something of a stretch, but NALP publishes guidelines designed to make the hiring process more efficient and civil. One of the key rules intended to protect law students is a [...]
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Paul Graham has an excellent piece on lists. “The List of N Things” hits on fantastic points about how lists are the lowest common denominator of writing. Writers and readers, especially of blogs, gravitate toward them because they’re so easy.
While elegant flowing prose has numerous advantages, might just be plain better than a list or [...]
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As you may have realized, I’m somewhat dismissive of the sort of networking that is demanded of law students during law school. The gist is that law students are expected to network with each other in the same sort of rigid way that professionals who deal with each other at arms length network. I never [...]
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Old wives tales are common amongst law students. But just as common are age old debates. Bring up questions like whether you should brief or when should you start outlining and you’ll have as many opinions as there are people in the room. Another of these questions that will probably never be definitively answered is [...]
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There is no shortage of discussion on how the legal industry and law schools are changing. There is a shortage of good advice on what law students need to do in order to be successful in a changing profession. Most of the current guidance is to reconsider whether you should go to law school at [...]
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