Focus on the Facts: How to use fact patterns to your advantage
By Eleanor Clerc In law school, most of your exams, whether multiple choice or essays, will make heavy use of fact-intensive...
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Eleanor Clerc
- Nov 10, 2021
- 3 min
What to do if you didn’t get the midterm grades you wanted
By Eleanor Clerc Note: Although this post is primarily written for 1Ls, all students can benefit from this guidance. By now, most of you...
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Eleanor Clerc
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
When to start outlining?
By Eleanor Clerc As the semester starts ramping up, many law students are looking for the best ways to organize and study material...
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Eleanor Clerc
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
What is the 1L Curve and how to embrace it?
By Eleanor Clerc For 1L students starting their first year of law school, there are a lot of unknowns. Between a new school, new...
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Eleanor Clerc
- Sep 21, 2021
- 3 min
The importance of 1L grades
By Eleanor Clerc Why 1L grades matter so much. Your 1L grades are extremely important. They are the most important grades you will...
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Robert Haimes
- Feb 24, 2021
- 1 min
Write Your Goal to Achieve Your Goal
Write down a goal today: whatever your goal, research shows that you’re significantly more likely to achieve it by writing it down. Try...
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Robert Haimes
- Feb 17, 2021
- 1 min
The importance of parallel structure
Parallel structure is the repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence. You create parallel structure by making each...
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Robert Haimes
- Feb 2, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding the Forgetting Curve
Today marks the start of the official launch window for our experiential group course beginning on February 13. In this and future posts,...
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Robert Haimes
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
The biggest mistake law students make on exams is…
The biggest mistake is that students fail to use enough facts in their responses to show that they have properly considered the issues...
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Ashleigh
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
Time pressure of law school exams is real!
Check out a short video with strategies for handling the time pressure of law school exams.
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Robert Haimes
- Aug 25, 2020
- 3 min
Lessons from a Law Professor on What to Focus on in Class
Often the law isn’t as clear as you’d like it to be. Instead of worrying, embrace it. You may have spotted an issue that ends up on an exam.
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Robert Haimes
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
The One Thing to Accomplish Week One of Law School
There are a lot of Top 10 lists out there, but we’re giving you the one thing you should accomplish in your first week of law school.
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