Law students when they start law school may be adjusting to a new city, new friends, a new school, a new field, and a new way of studying. The first year of law school is tough for everyone, even for all of the gunners in your class. So your best Read more…
Your first semester as a 1L will probably be the busiest time of your life. Even if you have free time, you may be exhausted or have a mountain of reading to tackle. In law school, taking breaks is important to avoid burnout, but there will always be something you Read more…
Procrastination is a big issue in law school. You cannot cram for a law school test! To succeed, you must study regularly, learn the law, and do the most important thing that most students hate, which is practice. This cannot be done in one day or even in a couple Read more…
Try to meet people during your law school orientation. A lot of times you can make friends during orientation that help you though those first few weeks of the semester. Try to hang out with people from your section, because those will be the folks you spend the most time Read more…
Sometimes students create study groups to learn in law school. However, no one in your class knows what they are doing either. We help students get rid of that noise of other students’ chatter and opinions! Be careful! Some students try to convince themselves they are doing law school right Read more…
There are many common mistakes Law School Tutor has seen in working with second semester 1Ls. It can be challenging to organize your exam answer, especially if the question is based on a lengthy, complex hypo and the call of the question is broad, such as “identify all possible claims Read more…
Ciphering through The Bluebook can be a stressful task, when trying to answer all of your citation questions. You just need to know how to use it quickly and efficiently: The first places that you should look for answers to your citation questions are the inside covers at the front Read more…
Law students may be primarily concerned with understanding and memorizing legal rules. But final exams will require you to demonstrate factual analysis as well and analysis is the most important aspect of most law exam answers. The fact pattern on a typical law school exam may include facts of three Read more…
If you are beating yourself up over your personal jurisdiction analysis on your Civil Procedure final or the duty argument you completely missed in Torts, be sure you stop right now. There is nothing you can do about what you wrote on your exams now that they are finished. For Read more…
Imagine what law professors have to deal with when they want to go on that same break from school – a pile of bluebooks and ExamSoft printouts. After grading, they match the anonymous ID numbers to students’ names. Was the student who was caught on Facebook actually paying attention? Was Read more…