We all know what it’s like: misreading the assignment and briefing the wrong cases. Or reading the right cases, but totally failing to understand them. Or missing class and scrambling to catch up.
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A few of us at LearnLeo are big fans of the show How I Met Your Mother. Aside from being funny and poignant, the show also offers a few life lessons.
You’ve heard it said ad nauseum – go to the best law school that you can get into. So you did your diligence and applied to about 10 schools: two or three “safety” schools, three or four “on par” schools and three or four “reach” schools.
Engineering (or any hard science) and law can be a powerful combination. The communications skills developed in law school can be a great complement to the quantitative skills developed in your engineering training. The framework for analyzing legal cases is also largely similar to scientific problem solving techniques.
For students beginning law school, one of the most common fears is the Socratic method of questioning. The Socratic method is the infamous way that law professors teach: rather than lecturing to students, they engage students in a guided question and answer session to lead students to a conclusion. The point of employing the Socratic […]
As the calendar makes its way into June, we are thrilled to congratulate 3Ls on their graduation. Of course, as exciting as it is to celebrate the completion of law school, any soon-to-be graduate knows that the most daunting part of becoming a lawyer is just around the corner: passing the bar exam.
Membership on a law journal can be one of the most rewarding experiences in your law school career. You’ll improve your research skills and legal writing in a big way, and it’s also one of the few chances to work on a team in law school. Private and public interest law firms often expect to […]
Let’s face it, you’re busy. You have classes, grades, relationships, and many other things to worry about. So, why should you spend time meeting top law firms now? Here are some reasons to start early: #5 – Stand Out – OCI is a volume process with lots of firms and lots of students, so it […]
Students save up to 1/3 of their class preparation time by briefing cases with our patent-pending platform. Go ahead, add it up: that’s hours every day. What would you do with a few extra hours every day?
When it comes to separating good law students from great ones, there’s one key difference: how they approach outlining. While most students tend to worry about how to create law school outlines, the better questions are when to start the process and what to do with your law school outlines once you’ve created them. In […]