Friday Links: Regional Law Schools, The Future of Legal Education, & More!
Happy Friday! Time to catch up on some useful law school tips and news from the week:
Are Lawyers Destined to Either be Miserable or Broke? (The Girl’s Guide To Law School)
This week The Girl’s Guide to Law School encourages you to share your thoughts about how to create a new vision for the legal profession.
Who’s Smarter? Law or Biz Students? (Poets & Quants)
Poets & Quants explores the provocative and tongue-in-check question of whether law students are smarter than business students or vice versa.
Question Authority: Law Students Have An Important Role to Play in the Future of Legal Education (The Legal Whiteboard)
Law professor at Indiana Law urges law students to ask law professors tougher questions about the current state of legal education, albeit with respect.
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Five Things I Learned in Undergrad That Helped Me at Yale Law School
Back To School
It’s mid August and for many of you that means only one thing: another summer break is in the books and its time to move out of mom and dad’s house once more (can I get a hallelujah?!) and head back to school. But before you set off to platform 9 and 3/4, we wanted to leave you with some words of wisdom.
Mary Adkins is one of our superstar LSAT instructors here in New York City, and she also happens to be a graduate of Yale Law School. In the ‘back to school spirit’, we asked Mary if she could reflect on the top five things she learned during undergrad that had the biggest impact on her life in Law School. Hopefully it’s not too late for you to take some of her advice (and if you’re intrigued by Mary’s insights and are looking for a New York course, consider signing up for her course). So without further ado…
5 Things I Learned as an Undergrad that Helped me in Law School:
1. No one else knows what’s going on either. Remember when you were a freshman in college and your mom gave you a giant, sloppy kiss on the cheek before reminding you to separate the whites from the colors? You were embarrassed until you realized that everyone else (a) also had dorky parents, and (b) couldn’t do laundry either. When I got to law schoolI was positive that I was the only one there who was utterly confused. What’s a holding? What’s dicta? “Oh no,” I thought, “I’m actually an idiot. How have I managed to fool everyone all this time?” However, once I learned that everyone else felt equally lost, it was liberating. It was also a great way to launch friendships—over shared panic and distaste for the law. I mean, over beers. Read more