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Category Archives: Law School Life
Advice on Going to a New York Law School
I grew up in the great state of New Jersey. Yes, great state. We put Camden and Newark there to scare off the people who are just visiting, especially from New York and Philly. Go down to the Jersey Shore and it’s just like on TV – awesome. If you don’t like it, screw you.
Growing up in New Jersey, I know the appeal of New York. It’s like your cooler, older brother. Sure, you’re a little more laid back, but you always want to hang out with him. New York’s cultured. New York’s got more ladies. New York’s the person you look up to.
So I understand why a lot of you have a dream of moving to New York for law school.
Before you pack up and move (or pack up and stay, for you native New Yorkers), you’re going to have to understand a few things about New York.
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Mar 2, 2012 - 6:25 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school life, new york law school
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Pre-Law at the Movies: Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down?
Whether your university has a pre-law program or not, you’ve likely wondered what actually goes down at law school — especially if you’re reading this blog. Perhaps you’ve even watched a work of completely ridiculous fiction movie or two about law school. If that’s the case, your pre-law school education has gotten off to a less than auspicious start.
Take The Paper Chase, for example. If you’ve had the distinct misfortune of viewing this particular work of cinematic schlock, then you’re no doubt well acquainted with Professor Kingsfield. A tyrant of the lecture hall, the old prof is enough to make any pre-law student quiver in their (now necessary) Depends.
Then there’s Professor Cromwell in the pre-law favorite Legally Blonde.
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Sep 14, 2011 - 4:23 pm - By Alex Davis
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Love, Liquor and Lockers: A Law School Discussion
As the October LSAT approaches, you’ve no doubt spent some of your increasingly rare spare time daydreaming about what law school is going to be like. How much reading do I actually have to do? Are professors really as mean as the guy in the The Paper Chase? Will I develop an uncontrollable addiction to caffeine?
In my experience, the answers are (respectively): “Lots,” “No” and “Probably.”
These questions are law school discussion standard. I’m here to relate some less-standard information. In this law school discussion, I’ll let you know just how law school life compares to life at your previous educational institutions:
Law School Discussion Topic #1: Lockers
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Sep 8, 2011 - 4:09 pm - By Alex Davis
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Ways to Save During Law School
If you’re considering attending law school or have recently embarked upon your 1L year, the specter of cost has no doubt reared its ugly head. Yes kids, a legal education is expensive (as any graduate education can be). It’s only natural that you’d be looking for ways to save a buck or two (or several thousand). That’s where this post comes in.
There are two things which you will likely find yourself short of during law school: time and money. In some ways, a shortage of the former can lead to a shortage of the latter. Don’t have time to take the bus to school? Have to spend money on gas and a parking permit? Don’t have time to cook? Have to eat fast food?
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Aug 10, 2011 - 10:07 am - By Alex Davis
Tags: law school, law school life, saving money
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Law School and Social Life: Oil and Water?
If you’ve spent the past year reveling in senioritis or spending your days off from work doing nothing but drinking and sleeping, you officially suck. You are also in for a bit of shock to your system when you have to once again balance a serious class load with any interests you may have outside of said classes (you do have those right?).
What’s a budding 1L to do? Let’s examine some of your options:
1. Make friends with your colleagues.
While it’s not my preferred course of action, it’s certainly a viable one. You’ve got a ready-made group of similarly situated people right at your disposal. They are all afraid of their workloads. They are all afraid of their professors. They are all looking for someone to hold them tenderly.
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Jul 21, 2011 - 4:58 pm - By Alex Davis
Tags: 1L, law school, law school life
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Back to School Preview: the First Week of Law School
The first day, let alone the first week of any type of school can be daunting for even the most stouthearted of students. Remember when you made the transition from elementary to middle school? You had to ask yourself things like, “Do I ditch the [insert cartoon show here] backpack?” “Will I look silly if I continue wearing shoes that light up when I walk?” “When Adam Sandler said that ‘Peeing your pants is the coolest!’ in Billy Madison, was he telling the truth?” Some of you are no doubt wondering the very same things as you swiftly approach your first week of law school.
Here are your answers.
Jul 8, 2011 - 2:56 pm - By Alex Davis
Tags: law, law school, law school life
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Why Law School Extra-Curriculars Are Worth It
Alright you little 1L-to-be, it’s time to perk up those ears (or eyes in this case) and pay attention. I know you’re already cowering in fear at the thought of all the studying everyone has told you that you’ll have to do during your first year at law school. Too bad. I’m going to tell you precisely what you don’t want to hear: you should do extra-curricular activities too. Moot court, law review, other journals, mock trial, etc, etc. All worthwhile. Allow me to tell you why.
Firstly, they’re not class. You’re not forced to choke down abridged versions of old cases that may or may not currently be relevant.
May 11, 2011 - 2:58 am - By Alex Davis
Tags: law school
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Law School Dating: High School All Over Again
Maybe you were the assiduous loner in college, spending all your waking hours trying to make the Dean’s List. Maybe you became so ensconced in LSAT study that your relationship disintegrated. Maybe you have personal hygiene “issues.” Whatever the case may be, you’re heading into law school next year without a significant other. You may think that law school is your big chance at a fresh dating start. New city, new people, so on and so forth. Let’s examine the pros and cons of your approach, and intra-law school dating in general.
Pro: You see your partner all the time.
You have classes together. You have lunch together. You study together.
Apr 5, 2011 - 4:43 pm - By Alex Davis
Tags: law school, law school life
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Waiting to Hear From Law Schools
Everyone you know is at least mildly perturbed with you right now. They’re tired of hearing about how “So-and-so already got into Law Schools ‘X,’ ‘Y’ and ‘Z’ and I haven’t even heard back from any of them yet!”
Unless you want to lose all those much-needed non-law school friends* before you even get to law school, you need to quit your bellyaching.
To help you on the road to temporarily ignoring the emptiness of your mailbox, we bring you an SEO-friendly list of things to do while waiting to hear from those bastar- . . . law schools:
Mar 10, 2011 - 10:40 am - By Alex Davis
Tags: law school, law school life, waiting for law school
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Uses for Useless Used Law School Books
It’s one of the great conspiracies of graduate education, and law school is no exception. Evil textbook publishers hire your professors to write their texts, and why you ask? Built- in readership of course! Given your average professor’s love of pontification, you couldn’t honestly believe that they would subjugate their egos and assign a text written by (gasp) somebody else.
And let’s not ignore royalties. I shuddered every time I had to pry the ol’ Visa out of my wallet to plunk down a colossal sum for a book whose contents would only be relevant to my life for the extent of the given semester. And every time I had to go through that experience, a fraction of that proverbial pound of flesh went into some prof’s pocket.
Feb 4, 2011 - 10:58 am - By Alex Davis
Tags: law school, law school life
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