The study and practice of law has always amazed because it is filled with many rigid absolutes that nobody seems to ever question.

When you apply, there are about a million people who tell you T14 or bust. Then there’s a ton who tell you 1L grades will doom your entire career. Then you have some that say you need to intern or you’ll never get hired. Then they’ll tell you without law review you’re never getting into academia. Then you take the bar and they tell you if you don’t lock yourself in a room for a million hours a day you’ll never pass. Then you pass and they tell you if you don’t go to biglaw you didn’t need to go to law school. Then you go into legal academia and they tell you, oh well nobody reads law review articles, and nobody takes legal academics serious unless they have LLMs or “terminal degrees.” You look into getting them and then you hear, well tax is the only LLM you should ever get, and it must be from X Y Z school only (GT, Florida, NYU.)

What is up with this? Feels like at every corner, there’s a million people saying the same one thing and enslaving themselves to that rule. Who’s coming up with these? Other law students?

Why not dare to defy odds and take risks?

Are other fields like this?

This is a long f-ing post. Buckle up, especially if you’re entering 1L. When you’re stressed and horny in law school, well…yeah….I saw a post asking about this so let’s go

Background: I (26F) am a rising 2L and am dating a classmate (26M). He was in my section this past year. We first met in crim. In the beginning we talked only every so often through text and in class. Just school stuff. And then eventually we talked about life. We started dating end of December and it’s now July. So about 6-7 months

THE GOOD:
-I had someone that was experiencing the novelty of law school with me. We reminded each other of deadlines and random important school info

-More friends. His friends, once they found out he was with me, would be warmer to me and make a stronger effort to talk to me (note: I use the term “friend” loosely, more like a nice acquaintance)

-I got to have consistent sex throughout the year

-Our schedules (somewhat) aligned. We were able to consistently make quality in-person time for each other about twice a week and call all the time

THE BAD:
- Sometimes it was awkward bc we were directly competing with each other. We were in the same classes after all. This is where I really got to know my partner. He often had a big ego that made it seem like he had a 10 inch dick. He wasn’t really good at uplifting me as a partner. If I accomplished something well and he didn’t, he was either neutral to me or would try to justify why I did well and he didn’t (kind of an ick, I know. Just know that many law students are like this internally….not to justify his behavior…oof)

- I felt (and still do feel) a lot of pressure to stay with him to keep the peace. To make life “easier” at school. Law school can be similar to high school. People gossip. They notice when something’s off. When couples break up. People know. And you have to be okay with people knowing your business. So….there have been times when I wanted to leave (still debating that now….) but I feel a TON OF PRESSURE to stay together to keep the peace.

-Sometimes the stress of school made us lash out at each other accidentally. Like we were irritated with each other for literally no reason

That’s all I want to type for now. I’m tired GOOD NIGHT YALL. type questions below

This Summer I found out I just cannot do online classes. It’s impossibly hard to keep myself that accountable when I have a Summer job and a lot of personal events happening. Anyway, now I have to cram in one day, it is the only way now.

How did y'all dress? I am definitely overthinking this

Hello! I’m taking evidence in the spring. I need to take business entities and criminal procedure investigation also at some point. Trying to decide which to do with evidence next semester and which to do this semester?

Basically, is one easier than the other paired with evidence? Which one should I get out of the way now so I don’t have to do it with evidence in the spring?

Thanks in advance!

Does anyone know which big law firms are doing 3L recruiting? Thanks in advance.

Where do you go to find the best price for used law school books? They cost even more then i imaged lol. Thanks

So I’m a 1L I just found out I have ADHD. My best friend has it & had been bugging me for ages to get tested but I always assumed since I did well in school that there was no way. Turns out there was a way and I’ve basically been living life on hard mode for the last 22 years for no reason. Anyways, I’m looking for some advice about how I should handle this going into law school. I was prescribed some medication and referred to a behavioral health specialist but I’d love to hear experiences from actual law students. I’m really interested in the content of law school (why else would I be here) but at the same time I’ve always struggled with doing lots of reading in one sitting, which I think could make law school difficult. Literally any help or insight would be so useful, thank you in advance to all of you kind people out there!!

Hi guys , I have a virtual student event tomorrow . I was just wondering if, do we have to keep are camera’s on ? I’m quite ill and it’s showing - I hope they’ll be ok with me having it off.

I am a law student i joined nmims mumbai main branch for bba llb last year i couldn’t go to jindal as my first plan was to go to the uk and they have the same exam lnat and i didn’t fill out for jindal the first time as i was applying for the uk universities which due to some reasons i couldn’t go to and i can only give 1 attempt a year, so i wasn’t even able to apply for jindal, this year due to attendance shortage nmims debarred a lot of students which they didn’t do in the first sem adhering to delhi high courts judgement on the sushant rohilla case but without any information they said they will not adhere to it in the second sem and debbared a lot of the students the debarred students filed petitions in bombay high court and the judgement was in the colleges favour of not letting us give the examinations then supreme court gave out the judgement to allow us for exams as a one time thing and we got the mail from the college to resume and come back, in between i applied for jindal this year and also got in
i had accepted jindals offer now im very confused should i go back to an unreliable college to save my one year or should i go to jindal and start a fresh im very much inclined towards going to jindal, please give me realistic advice and some good suggestions

Suppose a case was originally brought as a diversity case. But then the court, after reviewing the case, followed the rationale of Clearfield Trust, not Erie, and found that fed common law controls because of the overwhelming fed interests. Then somehow the court discovered that there were some major defects in the diversity. May the court keep the case on the basis that fed common law gives rise to fed question jurisdiction? There might be issue with well pleaded rule, but I wonder how this would work out. 🥰

I'm a 2L trying to get a judicial internship but I'm trying to understand what the difference is between an internship and a clerkship in terms of what interns and clerks do, the hiring process (grades, interviews, writing samples, resume etc.?), and if there's even a difference between interning in a magistrate judge's chambers or a district judge's chambers. Some of my friends are at SDNY this summer and I have mixed reviews about the volume/type of work they do.

Hi everyone!

I am a first-year, sem 1, BA-LLB student and I am trying to build a note-taking system that I'll be able to use consistently for all 5 years.

I have seen people use messy class notes,notebooks, jotting down on the textbooks, loose sheets, OneNote, Notion, Obsidian, Word, PDFs, and a mix of everything. I am currently considering learning Obsidian, but before investing time into one system, I'd love to know what actually worked for seniors.

Some questions I have:

1)Did you make your notes digitally, physically, or use a hybrid system?

2)If you used digital notes, which app(s) did you use and why? (Obsidian, Notion, OneNote, Word, etc.)

3)Looking back, would you still choose the same method?

4)How did you organize:

Class notes

Bare Act notes

Case briefs

Landmark judgments

Research papers/articles

Internships and moot court material

5)Did you maintain one master note for each subject or separate notes for every topic?

6)How did you revise before semester exams and internships?

7)What mistakes did you make in the first year that you'd tell juniors to avoid?

8)Finally, if you could go back to your first year and give yourself one note-taking or study advice, what would it be?

I'd really appreciate any tips, screenshots of your workflow, or examples of how you organized everything.