Warning: this HUGE thing you can do is not for the faint of the heart. It requires focus, discipline, and the willingness to work harder and longer than most of your classmates. But, if you do this successfully, the rewards will change the trajectory of your law school career and give you the boost of […] Read more…
Food For Thought: How To Produce and Feed Your Soul Good Fruit
“A person’s soul takes on qualities according to its activity.” – Ignatius Brianchaninov This was the daily quote that greeted me this morning as I opened up my Full Focus Planner to the day’s planning, scheduling, and notes pages (side note: I use the notes pages for both notes and as a journal throughout the day). […] Read more…
What To Do If You Don’t Make Moot Court
First off, do not be discouraged! I did not make my school’s Moot Court Board 1L year and went on to win (with my partner) a moot court competition 2L year, place as semi-finalists in a regional moot court competition with my team 3L year, and win third place brief (out of 20). My teammates […] Read more…
Take a Stand Before You Sit for the Bar: A Call to Action for Law Students to Combat Lackluster Lawyering
“What is true, and has turned out to be fatal for [the client] – though it should not have been – is that his lawyer was lackluster.”[1] Judge Richard Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (now retired), blasted lackluster lawyering and what he called a weak immigration bar in his […] Read more…