You thought you were ready for law school, didn’t you? When you were in college, you took the intro to contracts and your history courses all covered constitutional law. You received high grades in those and other related classes. By all accounts, you should have hit the ground running, when law school began. So what happened?You may have found out that what they teach in college does not rise to the level of that first year contracts or torts class. You might have found out that the constitution is a lot more than just the bill of rights. However, the biggest thing you found out was, law school is a lot tougher than you imagined it would be.
Well, there are ways to make this experience easier. For starters, briefing cases does not need to turn into an all night experience. If you have a west law account, try the brief it section. Your law professors may not like it, but the bottom line is, you will learn a lot more about a case in the class and the law which stems from that case, if you have at least a brief (no pun intended) understanding of what the case really is about.
If you do not have that precious West password yet, try the canned briefs. They do actually have some value, as opposed to what your professors may tell (or in my case threaten) you. Again, the idea is not to memorize any cases, but rather to understand the law behind the case. I find that the old phrase, work smarter not harder applies to law school perhaps even more so than to the work place.
This article was written by Michael Goldstein, Attorney at law for Law School Tutors.
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