Putting the cool back into law school
From the category archives:
While I will be standing right next to Above the Law when it comes time for the revolution that will start cutting down the number of law schools, I try to stay away from banging on individual schools. In a competitive, free market economy, new schools must come and innovate to push the industry forward. [...]
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One thing that throws just how contrived law school can be into sharp relief is when a law student sees real lawyering in action. That’s what happened to Jansen:
Unlike the raging husband, the Moot Court clients aren’t standing next to me. There’s no sobbing wife, angry mother, or threat of jail time. The lack of [...]
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Adam Vella over at Legal Geekery has two informative posts about taking your textbooks from 1000-page back breaking behemoths to weightless, useful digital copies, then to books that read themselves.
Digitizing your textbooks is a process of cutting off the bindings and scanning the pages in. Adam’s tips are all dead on and highlight the one [...]
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I would really like to see the rates of voluntary attrition at law schools. It’s hard to get a gauge based on anecdotal evidence. On the one hand, reading law student blogs and listening to law students, you would think everyone was one bad day away from quitting. On the other hand, law students don’t [...]
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The lack of consistency in law school grading is one of the top reasons law school is so stressful. The law student whose grades correlate perfectly with the time spent and his or her understanding of the class simply hasn’t been delighted or screwed by a grade they feel they didn’t deserve. Unless you are [...]
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This post from My Legal Fiction got me thinking about myths of law school. Between movies, books, and law blogs, 1L has gained a mythical status. 2L has much less of a story behind it. But there are still a few myths, or at least bad advice about 2L.
Myth #1: 2L is where they work [...]
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You think that after all the complaining about how law schools are taking advantage of a bunch of suckers by selling them the good life after three very expensive years, Above the Law would be supportive of a school that is trying to get students out as fast as possible. So when the Indiana University [...]
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The Whipping Boy of every law school is career services. There aren’t many law students who were thrilled or completely satisfied by their career services office. That’s because career services tends to do a very odd job: to ensure that the best qualified applicants at a law school are employed.
Point/CounterpointAaron Street points this out at [...]
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