A change of pace today. A lot of Larry Law Law is about how — how to kill it in law school, become a great lawyer, etc. But this post is about why, and weirdly, wherefrom. (Yes, I just made up a word. Put that in the Dictionary of Modern Usage, Bryan Garner!) I like to think…
Short TL;DR version: If your law school grades sucked, even if it makes your upper or lower GI tracts quiver a bit, you must face your law professors for feedback on your final exams. That’s it. Now, the longer version for people who as kids would have done well in the Stanford Marshmallow Test: As I…
Larry’s Note: As I mentioned before, the following piece was originally scheduled to be published in Above The Law. Ultimately they published only half of it, as they had a problem with some content (which was, I admit, a bit over the top). So what follows is a complete version of the text I had…
If you really listen to law school advice from law professors, you would think their job is a giant act of tough love rather than, um, f-ing TEACHING. Exhibit A: an excerpt from this Journal of Legal Education article: “This article accepts the now-common assertion . . . that law professors should make explicit the…
. . . if I could convince you to focus on just one thing early in the semester in law school (and ideally earlier). And I am going to spend another long post and over 30 minutes of free video trying to convince you to do this one thing. But before I tell you what that one…
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