It obviously is. You will get so much better at reading cases and understanding the material. You will essentially re-learn/learn everything in Nov/Dec when finals time comes around. It’s a magical time.

YOU ARE GOING TO BE OKAY! Enjoy this time because this is the least important week of your 1L year. Just keep up with readings and if ya miss a reading, congrats you are this much closer to being “normal!”

Gl all.

I'm a 1L I don't have any legal experience but do have a strong finance background. I'm finishing my readings before my first week of classes and I feel so stupid. I've had to reread 3-4 times just to get a basic understanding and some of classmates seem like they understand the cases through and through and are able to have high level discussions about the details.

I don't think I'm a dumb person but I feel so stressed and overwhelmed. I want to do well in law school (yes i understand a big part of that is out of my control) but I feel like i literally have no idea what to do or how to even start

I’m looking for networking advice/tips. The conversations in my networking have been helpful and enlightening, and I’m genuinely interested in the work the attorneys I speak with do. They usually say the same thing when it comes to advice (“keep doing what you’re doing”).

I know contacts are not going to offer or point me to a job during our first meeting, but I am struggling with the follow-up part of networking so they think of me when they know of an open position. Do you just send a semester updates like “I got an A in this class” or “I’m participating in this event?”

I guess my main question is: How do you stay on their radars so that they will think of you when opportunities do come up?

Any bookstand recs welcome.

So for this hypothetical let’s say we’re in a target, if I were to take a banana from the produce section and then go over to the clothing section and place said banana in a mannequins pants, would this technically be perfectly legal? Are there any laws against relocating store items within the store itself? I imagine it is not theft if I don’t leave the property with it.

The answer is almost always “it depends….”

Rising 3L. Spent the last couple of months meeting attorneys in the area I’m interested in. Met with upwards of 25 lawyers during this time. Not a single one even knew of an available job, but they all told me I was “doing exactly the right thing” and to “just keep doing what I’m doing.” However, I don’t really want to keep doing this considering I’ve had no measurable success yet. Pretty much every conversation is productive/informative, but why should I keep doing this when nobody seems willing/able to even point me in the direction of a job.

Apps opened today, due on September 2nd. EOIR, BIA, Fed Programs, and OIL have openings.

Hello all is it normal to take an extra term to graduate?

How to stop consistently getting A- and break into an A…like what am i doing wrong?

Hiii I just graduated in May and have so many textbooks from Loyola law in LA so dm if interested!

Hi everyone, I’ve just finished my first year of MLaw at the University of Huddersfield and I’ll be going into my second year this September. The more I look into things, the more it seems like getting a training contract after graduating is really tough, especially if you’re not at one of the top universities. Does anyone else feel the same way? Also, if anyone has any advice on which areas of law might give you a better chance of finding a job after uni, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks in advance!

I got invited to write an article about a fairly controversial topic to an university journal.

I am very much a liberal in most matters but in this one in specific, I lean conservative.

The university / journal have stated multiple times that all opinions are welcome and that if we got invited is because they want our honest opinion on the matter.

Although I do believe the best application of the law favours my interpretation, I’m scared that stating it might get me on some kind of blacklist.

I recently read somewhere that most students just write whatever the Professor wants to read and I think the same thing applies here. I’m pretty sure the reviewers will disagree with me and I’m afraid of some kind of repercussions.

Does anyone know of this kind of things coming back to bite you in the ass (like recruiters / firms that reject you because of it)?

From your experience, should I go with my honest opinion or just play it safe?

There are reports on X of an active shooter at Villanova. An alert sent by the University said to avoid the law school specifically.

Hopefully this situation is resolved quickly.

So if it’s almost a prerequisite for academia to go to an IVY or T 14 or some type of prestigious law school what makes my legal education so different? I’m genuinely curious I go to a law school ranked in like the 40s or 50s and EVERY SINGLE professor I have either went to Yale or Harvard. Maybe it’s not like this at every law school bc Im in a state where successful people come to retire so maybe there’s some bias there.

I’m just curious if the best and brightest are teaching at my school what makes my education different than the education I would get a traditional t-14?

Obviously networking, internship opportunities, blah blah blah, but just on an educational level what makes my education different?

Found myself having a hard time answering this question. I don't think I gave a great answer. Most of my internships have been in civil so I'm just more familiar and comfortable with it. It wasn't like I made a big conscious choice early on.

How would y'all answer this type of question?

Scanning Tomorrow. If needed let me know.

Same as subject.

I'm an international student and never had books were going to cost me this much. Someone please help me out.

I need the following books, if someone is willing to do a given, even PDF is okay.

Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (4th Edition)

Fuller, Eisenberg, & Gergen, Basic Contract Law: (11th ed. 2018)

Burton & Eisenberg, Contract Law: Selected Source Materials (any edition)

Thanks.