Five Law School Don'ts
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Hi everyone---it's been a little while but I'm happy to be back, and hope to produce some great law-school related content for you this year. I really can't believe how quickly the time has passed. I'm about to enter my third and final year here at Stanford Law, so this video includes advice wrung from the blood, sweat, and tears of my first two years as a law student. Here you have it: five things you definitely shouldn't do in law school (and one for my 0L, pre-law bbs out there).
1. Don’t give into imposter syndrome
2. Don’t be afraid to ask for help or advice
3. Don’t forget your ideals
4. Don’t blindly accept the system of law as you learn it
5. Don’t go to law school if you don’t think it’s right for you
Don’t mind me, didn’t have my notebook or pen
1) 1:14
2) 2:49
3) 4:30
4) 6:15
5) 8:01
When I was in law school, what I noticed was that the students who spoke like lawyers weren't necessarily the ones that got high grades at the end of the semester. The ones that got high grades were the ones that knew how to take the law they learned and apply it to a set of facts in a fact-pattern. So, to make a long story short, the quiet person in the back of the class might get a higher grade in the course than someone who is outspoken and sounds like lawyer.
damien Smith who would be more successful in the courtroom? Are the grades in law school a reflection of how each student will do as an attorney?
Kameron Lord that’s difficult to answer, but if a lawyer wasn’t able to apply the law at loss school, then it would be difficult to imagine their success
Good analysis. Many lawyers don't even set foot in courtrooms anyway, so one does not need to be a gregarious, argumentative person to succeed.
I failed 3 times, i lost money to reviews that never helped but the major thing is that I've not lost hope
i'm sorry for your plight my friend but i was once in your shoes before i was recommended to Mr Thomas and thats how i passed LSAT
I had interest in working with him but I was discouraged by my friends out of ignorance 😔
I have a cousin who never studied much,we studied together but she gives most of her time to her phone than studies after writing the LSAT she passed and I failed😣, I asked her how she did it, just found out she got her help from Mr Thomas ..
Sometimes hard work doesn’t pay you have to back it up with smartness🤓, I think your cousin understood that perfectly
Please does anyone know who this Mr Thomas is? I really need to speak with him I’m frustrated
probably the best law school video i've seen! tips 3 and 4 hit a lot close to home.
Same
1) Don't give in an imposter syndrome
3) Don't be afraid to ask for help or advice
3) Don't forget about your ideals
4) Don't blindly accept the system of law as you learn it
5) Don't go to law school for the sake of it.
Her voice is soo reassuring. Thanks for this and I love you alot😍😍
So glad to see your videos again in my subscriptions! Thanks for your insight and hope that this quarter goes great for both of us!
I’ve been following your channel for awhile now, thanks for keeping it real and good luck with your 3L year❣️
The first minutes already lifted such a huge weight off my back omg. Thank you so much
Thank you so much for this ! I'm a law student in South Africa and I find your channel to be truly helpful 🌻
I am glad that you posting video relate to Law school again. Thank you.
Thanks for this, it's literally informative😘 can't wait to start my law school next month, hope I can adopt eventually.
Thinking of going to law school and your videos are so helpful!
Thank you for these and have a lovely day ☺️
This video came at the perfect time; the advice I needed at the exact time I needed it. Thank you for your perspective, insight, and openness!
One of the best videos ever! Love the content -- keep making it!
Great Insight! Much skill and productivity to you in your last year! You will finish stronger than ever!
As an incoming freshman to college and pre-law school, you are the most helpful person I’ve found to get information from. It sounds like we’re very similar in terms of personality and such. Thank you so much for these videos! So helpful!
Really beautifully put. Thank you so much.
Hi Esther! Excellent video! I just started as a 1L at SLS (maybe we'll run into each other at some point during the school year!), and I can already see a lot of the wisdom in your advice lol
Thank you so much for this honest advice and thoughtful video!!!!!
This is a really great video! Good luck with your studies!
Great video with sound advice. Best of luck in your 3L year. Professor G.
Thank you for your video, I appreciate it a lot as a 1L!
I was the first in my entire family including cousins etc to finish year 10 let alone year 12. When I got accepted into a prestigious university for nursing I was sure they had me confused with someone else so much so that I rang the admissions to say they had sent it to the wrong person. 3 years of blood, sleepless nights and more tears than I could physically cry, I graduated. The first few years I went to work with the "Registered Nurse" badge and scrubs I felt like an impostor...like I didn't belong and it was only a matter of time before everyone figured it out that I was in the wrong place. Took me 10 years to let go of that feeling...
So how did you let go of that feeling? Surely it wasn't easy if it took 10 years but props to you! You deserve it!
@@OMGtoFunni it wasn't easy at all...took alot of personal reflection as to why I felt that way. There are still days I still think of myself as an imposter so I'll have to stop my train of thought and change it. Its not easy at all. Especially when u have members of my immediate family who still see me only as their 'little sister'.
Thanks for the informative infos. This will serve as my guide plan entering law school.
I’m a 1 L and this video was super helpful! These are more real, practical tips rather than the simplistic snd unhelpful “Ask your professors questions when you don’t know the answer.” Obviously. And your hair looks so good btw. Super excited for you to be a 3 L and almost at the end of your law school journey!
I swear that I was not looking for your channel- but I found it!
I'll be applying to law school in the winter! A bunch of your videos came up and they've been helpful and reassuring. Thanks for making this content!
How's the experience?
Where'd you wind up going? Best wishes!
Your beautiful first of all and brains and your points are quite helping me ...thank you
Thank you. This has been so helpful
Being a lawyer, for some reason has always been my dream since I was young, but your fifth advice really hit me hard and now I really need to think more about it. Thank you for this video!
If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” -Jim Rohn |
@@wrxthsensei2358 very wise!!!
Noted! Hoping to be a successful lawyer someday. 💜
Well spoken + good advice!
Great video! Tip 1 hit home, because I really felt like I never belonged in law school when I first started here. Now, I feel like this is home. Never had a name for it, but impostor syndrome is the perfect name for that!
Love this video, thank you!
Am new here and i love that point you made about as lawyer you have the power to shape the legal system❤❤
It’s really helpful, and I love your videos! I have watched two of your Videos for three times, and i learnt a lot. I am a 1L JD student, and I feel that I am a imposter everyday. Having seen you to invest lots of your time to the study and you get decent grades, I am so admiring. I want to watch more of your videos, and maybe you can say something about how to fight with the bad feelings in law school? And I want to hear more class strategies like how to read class materials efficiently and what’s the focus and exam strategies like how to do outline. Meanwhile, it will be rather helpful for how to use other resources efficiently like westlaw. Thank you! Your contents are with high quality!
Congratulations! I would recommend using some commercial outlines, getting away from campus periodically & getting regular exercise to reduce stress. Hope law school is going well.
I am in my last semester of 3L year so from my experience these are great advice...now I am looking forward to the February bar exam in DC!
Good luck!
Great video young lady!! thanku.
hi...i am new to this channel and its been really helpful, am glad because its helped reduce the pressure i feel about joining law school
Good luck!
Thank you so much for the 3rd advice. It is very easy to feel oppressed by the "clichés" people have about the reasons a person wants to be a lawyer, and to forget why you made this choice in the first place.
As someone who is currently in the thick of 1L (currently on my 4th week), this couldn’t have come at a better time. As always, thank you for your insightful words, Esther. I hope you have a great 3L. 💕
If you don’t mind sharing, how was your job this past summer? I would like to hear your experience.
I worked at a midsize law firm this summer and really enjoyed it, mainly because of the people there :)
1L from Canada here... this is exactly what I needed.... thank you!
Hey :) im also from canada and will be starting law school soon. Do you find her overall tips are also applicable in canada?
Thanks!
That was really useful information, thank you for sharing. What advice would you give on how to prepare for the LSAT?
Take lots of real practice tests under timed conditions. I taught for Kaplan & don't really recommend it unless you really need the structure of a weekly class to force you to study. Good luck!
GW law 1L here, thank you so much for this! I am currently drowning and appreciate your duck analogy! Keep up the great videos (:
Hang in there!
I really loved the way you organised those points so neatly that made our life a bit easier (for me at least) but the last point is something which people like me are not ready to hear. I will be going to a law school this year and the last point made me question myself if I really want this because this has been my biggest doubt from day one.
Hope law school is going well!
Hey! Just started my 1L year in Florida and I just wanted to say thank you for your videos! They have been both incredibly insightful and encouraging. Any advice on when I should start looking for internships/externships/clinics?
It’s never too early to start thinking about it/talking to people in the field! But every school has slightly different timelines for actual applications, so I would reach out directly to your career office for advice and a roadmap. Good luck!
You might not see this, but you just saved my life. Glod bless like you
I’m starting law school in the Fall & this video has some great tips. I’ll be sharing my journey on my channel as well. Just subscribed ❤️
Can you make a why standford video? I love your videos after one I was hooked onto your channel. Thanks for all your great content. Good luck with your last year.
thank you! and I talk a little about Stanford in my "how to choose a law school" video, but in a nutshell: great reputation and ranking, quarter system would allow me to take a lot of varied classes, interesting faculty, and also a small class size that would allow me to know everyone in my class on some level.
@@FortheTimeBeingchannel thanks for the reply. I will rewatch that video. I was looking into Standford as one of my top 4 law school choices. Would you mind talking about how the Stanford experience helped you and what makes the school special for example what made you stay or what kept you attracted to the school?
Do you have any advice on how we can get insight on the day to day life of a practicing lawyer? I’m considering going to law school starting Fall 2020 in Atlanta.
This really hits me.
i enjoyed the duck metaphor.
Good luck on It's as well
Great tips
Thank you very much! I do belong there.
Can you talk about your own decision to go to law school?
IF YOU WANT TO BE A WORKAHOLIC ROBOT, THEN BY ALL MEANS GO TO LAW SCHOOL!
@@smokescreen2146 Such is the case for any other career pathway? Unless you got daddy's business that runs itself.
@@aliupsr don't say i didn't warn you
All the firms want associates to be robotic workaholics, unfortunately, and generate profit for them.
this question is a bit off track from Don'ts of Law School, so my apologies!
i was wondering, what discipline of law has piqued your interest the most? which were easiest or most interesting to you? i'm considering international law or family law right now, but i'm still figuring everything out while i apply to a few schools. Thanks! xo
You are sharp and your intellect is attractive. Thank you for your video!
Intelligence*. Your intelligence is low.
Ben Simmons Intellect means the amount of intelligence someone has. Fact check before sounding like a cretin.
Thank you for your videos.
What do you think about doing an LL.M. for someone with a law degree from a foreign country in opposed to going through the normal route of going to law school to get a J.D.
More specifically if you get the chances to take the bar exam once you get your LL.M degree (this only applies to Texas and NY city currently)
An LLM would be worth it but only from the top schools, like NYU, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford, etc. The job market is tough. Good luck!
Thank you.
hi, I‘m a student from China and going to be a law student in a JD program. I just want to say thanks because your video really helps me a lot. Before clicking into your channel I was very nervous about what life could be there and didn't know what to do to prepare for it. And I feel much better now. Thank you really! Best wishes from the other side of the pacific ocean!
Hi Yang! I'm a law student from India and I want to do a JD in the US as well! I would love if we could keep in touch! Im assuming that you would like to practice in the USA as well, and that is why you want to get a JD
@@northernlight9700 Well in fact im focusing on an international program which could give both Chinese JM and US JD degrees. So it would be kind of difficult (like it spends 4yrs , 2 in China). Good luck there and we may have the chance to meet in the US. :)
@@yooethanhere7647 oh wow, sounds very interesting! All the best! Yes, we may just meet each other in the US
Good luck!
Hi there, hope you are progressing well with your studies nowI. I am also a Chinese student and want to know more about the program you have mentioned before. Could you please tell it in detail? Thanks a lot!😉
Love your videos! I'm currently a sophomore in highschool considering a career in law. Do you recommend anything I could do now that would help better prepare me for law school?
Try not to stress too much about it! It’s super early still to be thinking about it. Just work on sharpening your critical reading and writing skills as you progress in your education.
Depending on the university that you attend, there could potentially be classes like "National Security Law" and "Criminal Law". I highly recommend taking those, especially because they tend to use the Socratic method. Almost every law class you attend will be taught using the Socratic method so it'll crucial to learn, understand, and get comfortable with Socratic method!
thanks for this nice video. im a high school graduate and i really dont know whether this career is good for me or not. can you please name some of the text books you studied so that i can read some pages of them.
Hi you have some amazing videos, this video made me a bit emotional because I’m wrapping up my bachelors preparing for the LSAT with kids, husband, and the military and it’s extremely overwhelming and sometimes I completely doubt my self. Like you, I am as well a first generation of getting this far in a professional career and I feel like I have a lot to prove not only to family and friends but my self 🥺 do you have Instagram I would love to follow you. Again thanks for the words of encouragement!
Good luck!! I’m @forthetimebeing_ on insta :)
Thank you babe for all the truth
Thank you
Have you thought about what law you want to practice ?
No 5 applicable for every things you study for
What area of law did you choose to pursue immediately after law school and does it match what you want to be doing in the long term?
Hi! I'm so worried about law school. One of my worries is that I am not a good writer.
My University it's long distance learning, I try to study on my own because not all the modules have classes. It's a hard one, hopefully God helps me to make it🙇♀️
Thank you❤.
The intro to #5 cracked me up! lol
Greetings from Colombia, I am struggling with this decision, also I like government and international relations, I do not know what to do
In first yr law school if you try to pick the top ten after exams you would probably be wrong.
I'm struggling to find careers pertaining to social justice/social issues that are obtained via law school - does this mean another type of education should be sought instead? I'm encountering a lot of videos pertaining to working at firms - would like to hear what folks advise!
Social justice jobs with non-profits are very competitive & usually don't pay well. You might want to try to contact lawyers directly at those organizations, like the ACLU, Justice Center, Prisoners Legal Services, Innocence Project, etc. to see how they got their jobs & if they are satisfied with their careers. Best wishes!
Should also mention about mental health
definitely an important topic! I touch on it in a couple other videos but didn't have the space within the framework of this one to really get into it.
So I’m in undergrad as an Econ major, what are some ways to learn more about law school/law in general in preparation for the LSAT when I do take it?
I have a video on the general timeline (how I got into law school) and one on studying for the LSAT! In general I’d say talk to your career office and ask for the contact info of some alums who went to law school/are in the field now. That way you can talk to them about their work and their path.
For the Time Being thank you so much ~!
I need to find money or loans for law school! HELP!!!
Do you have any advice for high school students who want to go to law school???
Try to intern with or talk to attorneys to see how their careers went & get advice from them. Good luck!
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
What subjects did you choose in grade nine
Can you perhaps talk about what does it mean to go into $200k or more in debt? I really don't understand how does that work and perhaps is it possible to work when you're in law school?
Most people pay law school through loans. The range I’ve seen for law school is 250k-300k. That means you’ll spend plenty years paying for the loans you borrowed. The best way around this is to get scholarships from law school, this is done through having a good LSAT and a good gpa (mostly LSAT).
You can work, it’s really hard and not recommended. Your summer internships allow you to make money and gain law experience though.
Haha Australian uni debts are only like $50k. Btw that’s about $34k American dollars.
Yes, private law school tuition is now $60-70k a year, & that doesn't include rent, food, transportation, travel, & textbook costs. In my opinion, no one should go into over 100k in debt to go to law school, especially a lower-ranked private law school. The chances of that paying off is slim due to the saturated job market.
Be Haappyyy!!! Happy Marriage!!!!
not related to law school, you somehow remind me of Jisoo from Blackpink
Jissoo and jennie combined 😂
Lol
Kate Domingo i knowww...omg😍💕
this comment is kind of racist! can you elaborate on why she reminds you of Jisoo?
@@pinknarcissist exactly they call every Asian another kpop idol like?
I’m am going to join marines and going law sametime
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Are u already a lawyer? Thanks for the response.
Not yet, I’m still in school! It’s my last year of law school though.
It’s amazing for Asian students to learn English and law school stuff while watching your channel at the same time.
It's a great channel. I also have some legal-related videos on my channel, in case you are interested!
What advice would you give someone who wants to take the GRE for law school.
Don't Go
(yes, I'm a bit bitter)
In your opinion, is there truth to discrimination against immigrants going into law school?
From the words of a so called graduate recruiter where I live, they confessed they had less preference for Asian people in recruiting.
I think so, and I'm not even an immigrant! I was born in the USA but sometimes wondered if I didn't get an interview due to my foreign-sounding last name (plus I'm an attorney in North Carolina). If you have an accent, many employers don't like that either, but it also depends on where you want to practice. For example, in some places, if you can speak Spanish, that's a huge asset. Good luck!
@@aalegalfocus thanks. 😊
What do u mean by 3L I’m 15 srry😅
3L is the third year of law school, which is also the last year.
I know people is always telling you you look like Jisoo but I think your certainly look more like Ailee
I am there's
1) Don't fuckin' go!
Did you go to law school?
Just one thing I disagree here about being a lawyer. Not all lawyers need to be crazy about details. If you work with contracts which is boring for me, then, yes. If you are a litigator, then other qualities are important. Not everyone can has this catch of the court processes which are stressful and mind- and energy consuming. They require fast thinking, making decisions, a certain character, charisma, psychology in combination with legal knowledge and ability to speak. Simply all mentioned is a combination of a talent.
What my friends would say, At the end of the day whether you're an A student or a C student, once you graduate law school, you're both lawyers.
Also, point number 5 seemed very blunt... almost too blunt
However, the person with the A's will have a much better chance of having a real attorney job after graduation, while the one with C's may be stuck in document review or have to wait tables. Grades matter a lot.
@@aalegalfocus I agree
@@samwui94 are you in law school?
@@aalegalfocus Nah. I just have a lot of friends that went to law school
Samoa
If Stanford Law assigns mentors, then they are a great school. I wish the school I went to did that. They operated like a frat party and it was every man for himself. Needless to say it was toxic and not helpful.
Am new here and i love that point you made about as lawyer you have the power to shape the legal system❤❤