- For those studying for the LSAT, Most Strongly Supported offers helpful tips. The first thing you should do is to learn all the methods and question types. Once you’ve learned them all, you should spend a lot of time practicing them, eventually in random order and for longer stretches. Finally, make sure to take “a whole lot of full tests in realistic settings.” You’ll become more familiar with your timing and “testing particularities.” And generally, allot plenty of time for studying, ideally “studying regularly for long intervals.” In fact, this relates to a specific trait that the most successful LSAT students possess: planning homework in advance. It’s best to make yourself a schedule, spacing the homework out. Another commendable study habit is attending every class and Q&A, and most importantly, learning from your mistakes. More than just going over the answer key to see which ones you’ve missed, it’s most productive to go back over every problem you’ve missed and figure out why. You’ll then “figure out which types of problems really give you trouble and why they give you trouble. This will allow you to recognize the mistakes that you’re making, which will prevent you from making the same mistakes the next time you see a similar problem.”
- The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is facing a budget cut of $32.6 million, with a cut of $2.26 million for the William S. Boyd School of Law, New York Lawyer reports. While the law school will decrease its operating budget, it will have to greatly increase tuition and fees in order to make up for the rest of the cuts. The school will probably increase tuition by 15-20%, which it fears will “undermine the law school’s successful formula and render it a mediocre institution.”
- In the Ivey Files, Anna Ivey advises to do your best to make your recommender’s life easier. For example, if sending a follow-up email, make sure to reattach all necessary forms and information again. It’s better for you to do the extra work than asking it of him/her—“make it easy for him to help you.”
- According to New York Lawyer, George Mason University School of Law will offer a Supreme Court clinic this fall, in conjunction with the D.C. firm Wiley Rein. George Mason will be joining the ranks of at least seven other law schools that already have Supreme Court clinics: Stanford, Penn, Harvard, University of Texas, Northwestern, Yale, and the University of Virginia. Stanford started the trend in 2004, and now “all use the Stanford model to varying degrees, with private practice Supreme Court practitioners and law school faculty sharing the teaching and supervising the writing and editing of briefs by second- and third-year students.”
- As reported by U.S. News, American law students have more opportunities than ever to “immerse themselves in foreign legal systems and international law.” The availability of these foreign study programs has grown over the last 10 years or so, and according to the ABA, “In 2009, at least 112 U.S. law schools collectively offered more than 255 such programs.” Students most commonly study abroad during the summer, but semester and year abroad programs are offered as well, in locations as diverse as Prague, Tokyo, or Jerusalem. While the programs can be expensive, and “may preclude a student from taking work or internship opportunities in the United States, which some fear might set them back in landing a job,” many experts believe that experience abroad can really boost a résumé.
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