Do You Have What it Takes for Law School? | By Daniel June |
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I recall the first day of my fiction writing class as an undergrad. Our professor, who was an award-winning author, told the class, "I'm not here to encourage you to be novelists. I'm here to discourage you. I'm going to do everything I can to convince you that you don't have wh... |
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Establishing Safety Valves | By Daniel June |
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Having gotten this far, through undergrad and into law school, you have a sense of how to study. And even if you haven't been able to root out certain bad habits -- maybe you rely too much on procrastination to motivate you, or take shortcuts in your studies -- you at least can reflect on your w... |
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The Summer Before Law School | By Daniel June |
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It’s the summer before your first year at law school, you’re a 0L looking to start things on the right foot. Why not get a job being a file clerk or something? Wouldn’t it be nice to get some legal job before you even start law school and bring some experience with you to your educ... |
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How to Win Friends and Network -- and Not be Shy | By Daniel June |
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One wonders if such books as "How to Win Friends and Influence People," ever changed anybody's actual behavior. One's style of making friends seems intuitive, a basic life skill we've formed within the first ten years of life. Yet there is another sense that we can pick up inte... |
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Summer Break Before Law School | By Daniel June |
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155,000 took the LSAT this year. 88,000 applied, 49,700 were accepted, and you’re one of them. What now? You’ve got a summer to mule over what you’re in for, so why not mentally prepare? Have you ever had a project you knew was coming, and just by anticipating it mindfully for a wh... |
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Managing Student Loans | By Daniel June |
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Getting established in law is such a plight of personal perseverance that beginning the ascent saddled with over $100K in debt seems a bit unfair. What should law students do to manage their debts? How should they pay them off?It is best, to begin with, to keep the debt as small as possible. Sure, i... |
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Find a Mentor | By Daniel June |
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We’ve all been warned of the limits of book study, and no matter how apt you are at turning school knowledge into work power, there will be bumps. The commonly repeated advice is true. Sometimes you can read an entire book, but all you need is the voice of experience telling you that one sente... |
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When a 1L Should Use Commercial Study Aids | By Daniel June |
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In most video game stores is a wealth of literature on how to play and win games – player’s guides, this sort of thing – that only the lamest and least imaginative kids would actually pay for. Indeed, what’s the point of buying a video game and playing it if you want some gui... |
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Networking Versus the Spore Method | By Daniel June |
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Getting your resume in the right hands of the right person with the right job for you is unlikely if you imitate the common fungus and just send out spores until the air is saturated. Such a strategy indeed works for simplistic animals; spiders lay eggs by the thousands. But as the fable of the fox ... |
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Having a Sense of the Big Picture | By Daniel June |
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Sheila Birnbaum has recently taken the next expansion of her career, leaving Skadden Arps to work at Quinn Emanuel, saying, “I had a wonderful run at Skadden and have many great friends there. However, the opportunity to join Quinn Emanuel was an offer I could not refuse. Its pure litigation m... |
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