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To the time me and my flatmate hid in her bed under the covers, and sent snapchats of close up words, so our other flatmate would think we were at the library and wouldn’t shout at us.

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you know that headache when you are studying and you’ve absorbed way too much information?

that’s me after i’ve read a single sentence

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No ones guessed the judge yet.......

Guess the judge for brownie points-

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Reading about children's rights, holts quotes feels strangely accurate

Children seen as "expensive nusances, slave or a super pet"

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Law help

@supervisedbylawyers now this guy is the guy to go to for law help, he has helped me pass many an exam.

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not doing great?

clean your room

open curtains/windows

take a shower

put on clean clothes

get out of your room a bit

stretch

drink a glass of water

get the hard/important stuff out of the way while you have energy

set some (any!) goals

remember that it is okay to have bad days

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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (via philosophybits)

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On Starting Law School & Elle Woods

In Legally Blonde, Elle says the famous words, “what, like it’s hard?”

It’s become some sort of a mantra for female students applying to and starting law school. As kickass as this moment was in the movie, however, there’s something very important to note here.

She says these words in reference to getting into law school, not actually attending law school, which, as you recall, she immediately struggles with.

Getting into law school is deceptively simple. There are no prerequisites. Elle’s undergrad had nothing to do with law, or anything even in the humanities. Her focus was in fashion.

All it takes to get into a law school is to have gone through undergrad and to have taken the LSAT. There is no “passing” score on the LSAT, and you will be able to find a law school that accepts you somewhere in the USA if you have taken it at all. It won’t be a good law school, but it will be a law school.

Getting into a good law school, like Harvard, requires a good GPA and LSAT score. If you have a 3.9 GPA and 175+ LSAT, you’re almost guaranteed to get into Harvard Law. 

I will not downplay what an impressive feat this is, but you still need to realize that both a high undergrad GPA and a high LSAT score are things that to some, come easily. We all know those kids in college who got straight A’s without trying, and kids who did well on standardized tests (like the SAT) without really trying.

Elle had a 4.0 GPA (so yes, she’s smart), and yes she struggled with increasing her LSAT practice score but she still got a 179 (a score I actually never heard of in real life) on the first try. Meaning, she’s a great test taker. 

This has very little to do with how one feels while in law school.

At most law schools, you do not have any exams until the finals. Instead you are expected to only keep taking in information, without being tested on them in any formal manner, and you need to do this in ridiculous volume and speed. You need to be reading cases for 4, 5 classes that all meet nearly everyday, and retaining all this information. It’s not easy. It’s not designed to be easy. 

The film made this as clear as it could. Elle’s struggles with getting into Harvard were not even half the battle. It was a cute, fun montage of her studying for the LSAT and putting together a video essay. Once law school starts, she initially crashes and burns, in more ways than one. And then she realizes she really needs to get her shit together.

It can be very discouraging for these hopeful Elle Woodses to start law school and then realize how difficult it is in comparison to everything they’ve done before. But it’s important to remember that their heroine, Elle Woods, struggled, too. You can do it. You can get through it. Just remember:

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After attempting to learn EU law I now know why everyone lied and had the wrong facts for the refferendem, its bloddy impossible to learn any of it!

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initial thoughts

Can’t wait to study intellectual property law and family law but reallllyyy not excited for public and EU :(

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How i law is cat notebooks and “in a nutshell textbooks” winnnnnnning

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10 years, 10 goals tag

s-Thanks to @law-traff  for tagging me

Rules : list 10 goals for the next 10 years and then tag 10 people

Now this is gonna be hard as I’m open minded about the future. But here are my 10 goals so far.

1.Finish university with a personally acceptable grade

2.Learn to drive- get a car (hopefully a green car)

3.Work on not being so paranoid

4.Own a new animal friend

5.Write and publish a book

6.Possibly do a LPC and become a qualified solicitor

7.Commit to a charity and work for them

I’m tagging @tea-studies-sleep , @erin-law-studies, @lawschoolstudying, @studyspiration-coffee @lawstudentcanteven @ponies-in-space-with-me, @lawschoolruinedme @lawyerupasshole @mollyyoung @rachalbright

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Tryna revise in my dad's jungle

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The four friends you’ll have at Law school

1. The inhaled the book one; they will worry you as soon as you meet them as they tell you how they’ve read the textbook for the module your studying about two years ago, and just before you go into an exam they’ll start sprouting statutes and cases that sound too complex for what you thought you had to know. although they’ll ultimately be your biggest help to understand half of the lectures.

2. The party animal; out every night, doesn’t sleep but still gets better grades then you. They’ll never turn down a sesh but then they don’t ever seem to not be seshing so maybe that’s just their natural state? the best fun but could be the worst influence as you struggle to do assignments after the third day drinking with them

3. Legally blond in real life; aka the perfect one, that seems like they have their shit together, the best clothes, brilliant grades and always has on a smile. was probably head guy/girl.

4.cooler then you: ripped jeans check, coloured hair cheek. They even make mooting look cool. You’ll attempt to follow in their footsteps but will ultimately fail as the cough gets worse from the smoking.

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Actual Office Tips for #Baby Lawyers

Lots of you will be starting your first office jobs soon - how exciting! - and might need a little extra nudge to navigate the change from law school to the legal field 

Make friends with the office clerks/secretaries - they know more about the day to day operations of the office than any of the lawyers

When you can, take these people to lunch. Talk about things that are not the office. 

If you’re new in town, ask co-workers what some fun things are to try in the city. It will give you ideas for the weekend, and allow you to talk about something non-law related. 

Make your space your own. A lot of you will be inheriting desks / offices from past employees. Make the space yours. Clean the desk out. Rearrange furniture. Put up art. 

Do not feel that just because you inherit mess you have to live with it. It is your space, take command of it. 

Be aware of the image your office portrays to clients - my client probably doesn’t care that I like passion fruit body butter, but they will notice if I have half a pharmacy on my desk. 

Bring a coffee mug. Keep it clean. 

Accept impromptu lunch invitations as often as you can. Often you will have the opportunity to meet other lawyers in the area. Building your network happens in unexpected ways. 

When you have a crazy busy day, and your desk is covered in papers, resist the urge to just leave it that way. Take the extra 5 - 10 minutes to clean up every night. Nothing ruins a morning like coming in to a messy pile of paper. 

Do not assume you will remember every instruction you are told; you will likely receive instructions in the middle of another project. Keep a notepad / notebook handy to jot down instructions and tips so you can refer back to them when you are ready to tackle the task.

Be conscious of how you speak on the telephone. If you’re answering the phone, identify yourself. If you’re calling someone for the first time, identify both yourself and the office from where you’re calling.

Keep extra napkins, a Tide-To-Go Pen, and an extra phone charger in your desk drawer.

If you work directly under/closely with another lawyer, make sure you have access to their digital calendar. Trust me, it will help.

Get up and walk to talk to a coworker. Not only is it politer than calling them, but it gets you up and stretching your legs.

Finally, for the afternoon burn out, Peppermint tea is a fantastic mental pick-me-up.

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I crashed and burned on a super easy torts question on my second day of law school and I know this is a common Law School Experience™ but I am 100% ready to hide in a corner and never come to campus again.... How do law students deal with being in an environment where everyone looks like they have their shit together a million times more than you?

But also, everyone is faking it. 

Here is a tip. As a baby lawyer, you are going to know about 5% of what you need to. But your client needs to have faith in you, so you fake the other 95%. Perfecting this skill starts in law school. 

Example: even though you feel like crawling into a hole and dying, act like it doesn’t faze you. “Torts? Oh yeah did that happen? I’m so awesome I already forgot about it *insert hair flip for emphasis*” I always wore a cute dress and lipstick on days where my life was in burning shambles but I wanted people to think i had my shit together. Because you know who doesn’t question your life choices? People who go “damn she looks good today - how does she have time to do that?” and then they forget about that time I rambled on in property law about the change in working hours on Sundays and made 0 sense to anymore. 

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Law Term Of The Day: Body Politic

Noun The people of a nation, state, or society considered collectively as an organized group of citizens. "individual dissent was considered necessary to the health of the body politic" Law: Public