Putting the cool back into law school
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The best way to increase your productivity, hack your life, and be minimalist is to stop reading those sites.
These words, from Marco (who created Tumblr) apply to law students as much as they apply to anyone else. Right now there’s so many people producing huge volumes of advice about those topics on the internet. The [...]
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America’s education system is a controlled system. Parents, politicians, academics, and religious leaders are all trying to grab as much control of the education system as they can. From K-12, we tell kids where to be, when to be there, and how long to be there for. Even in college, students are increasingly losing that [...]
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Law schools have taken it on the chin over the last year or so. Rising tuition costs and high debt loads are not translating into lawyers that are ready to begin their careers. Law firms attempted to pass the cost of junior associate training on to clients, a system that worked until clients refused to [...]
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Here we are. You’re ready to go. Your 0L summer is over. Everything is in place. You’ve settled in your new city. You’ve gotten all your books and lovingly packed your highlighters into your bag. You’ve obsessed about Mac vs. PC and whether you should book brief. You’ve met some of your fellow students and [...]
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After about three weeks, it’s time to wrap up this series. I’ve argued why I think Getting Things Done is a useful system for law students. We’ve walked through the five phases of the GTD workflow: collecting your stuff; processing your inboxes; organizing the results; reviewing the system regularly; and completing your tasks. I’ve also [...]
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Recently I did a series of tweets where I mentioned commandments for law school. I got some great feedback and a lot of positive responses, so I decided to expand each commandment. I also tweaked the order a bit to get some groups together and set some rough order of importance (starting with the first [...]
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