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What Law Students Need to Know Many students experience law school as a major change from the academic study they have been involved in the past. Rumors fly from the first day of school about what you need to do to succeed in law school; students often don’t know how much of what they hear from others is true and find the method of teaching used by many of their professors to be vastly different from teaching methods in undergraduate school and other kinds of graduate education. For brief comments on some of the basic skills law students need, click on the topics highlighted below. Our advice is that in addition to attending every class and keeping up with the reading, it is helpful to take notes in class, brief cases and outline the course material from each course. However, the way that you do it may vary. It is also important to maintain some semblance of a life outside of law school: to maintain contact with friends and family, get exercise, and pursue your interests to the extent possible. In short, you do not have to cede your personal identity to fit into the mold you feel your legal education is pressing upon you. You will succeed and be happier with your ultimate choices if you maintain a sense of who you are, and why you chose to go to law school throughout the process of becoming a lawyer. Reading and Briefing cases
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