r/LawSchool • u/Hstrat JD • Aug 08 '18

Aggregated Content for 1Ls from around the forums

This is a list of original content created on Reddit, Top Law Schools, and Law School Life to help prepare students for law school. I highly recommend that 0Ls read as many of the posts in the "1L Tools" sections as they can over the summer before school starts - you've have a much better sense of what you're getting into.

This guide was created in 2017, and has been updated haphazardly since then - please let me know if any of these links are broken, or if you find any resources I should add!

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First, a good reminder: You are worth more than what you do at school

Other aggregation pages

Reading Lists

1L Tools - Getting Started & General 1L Success

Many of these guides also cover outlines and final exams, but their focus is more general

1L Tools - Outlining and Exam Taking

These guides focus specifically on outlining and/or taking final exams

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Notes, Outlines, and Course Guides

Summer Associate/Post-School Job Hunt

Miscellaneous

NOTE: I have no idea what's going on with the pictures that are posting as thumbnails to this, sorry for the randomness

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

Just make sure you take advantage of all the free food that comes with 1L.

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u/Hstrat Aug 09 '18

If you write a guide to maximizing your free food potential, I'll feature it in the post!

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u/BACsop Aug 08 '18

Most important advice in this thread. Seriously take advantage of student group meetings and networking events for this purpose.

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u/NYLaw Aug 08 '18

Thank you for this. We'll use this as our official 1L intro sticky guide this year since it's so comprehensive. We'll also link to this in the sidebar once the 1Ls start to really get into school.

Thanks for saving me from writing something like I did last year (what a headache). This community never ceases to amaze me.

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u/Hstrat Aug 08 '18

Awesome, glad I could help! Just let me know if you have anything else you think I should include in it!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

Great call, especially with TLS dying recently. One kind of psycho, but ultimately helpful link, that could go under the SA list--I used it a lot during OCI: advice for marginal candidates at T14s.

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u/mochi24 Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18

For those of you about to start your 1L year, just do your work and put in your time to learn the concepts, and you will do fine! Remember school is just school and it does go by very fast. Keep whatever relationships you have in your life still going (family, friends, partner, etc.), whether by messaging, Skype, or taking the time to hangout with them in person for a short time (if you are not too far away). When you are done with law school in three years and after you take the bar, you will realize how much time you lost with certain people that mean so much to you! It is very easy to find yourself having not communicated with certain people for weeks at a time as a 1L. I have recently taken the bar and am in post-bar life. I did take time to care for my outside of school world and I am happy I did. You lose track of time your first year, especially your first semester, and just need time to adjust. Don't start feeling guilty or stressed if you can't make the time, at least make some effort and keep it it mind. :) Goodluck to all the new 1Ls!

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u/LearnMeStuffPlz Aug 08 '18

Where is the link to request access to hypobank and law school outlines???

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u/gcpls Aug 15 '18

I'm a 1L starting school next week, and I want to recommend the Law School Toolbox Podcast. It had lots of great info on how to approach law school, how to be a functioning human being, and how to figure out what's the right path for you through school and your early career.

It can be a little repetitive if you listen to enough episodes, but I feel like it's gone a long way towards helping me to clarify my goals and to understand the mindset law school requires.