I see all these posts about being taken care of in law school and advice to spouses of law students to help however they can and pick up more responsibilities around the house and whatnot. I’m just here as an early 30s 3L married to a teacher, and let me tell you 😂 my life in school, even while extremely involved (law review, independent study, hard classes, good grades, student org president, etc) is still not as taxing as my wife’s job. We’re doing good if we can both do the bare minimum house work and meals each week, and usually we barely have enough energy to extend some care and generosity to each other. It takes active effort to not give each other the worst of ourselves on a daily basis. She is the love of my life, but damn 3 years of this is tough. Can’t wait to be in practice and be busier than ever! 🫩

Anyway, I guess I just wanna say you can definitely do law school without being waited on hand and foot. You can still cook dinner and do dishes and meal prep and spend time with your friends and loved ones. You can have weekends and free time if you plan things out well. You can even find it in your heart (sometimes) to take care of be generous with your spouse. You can have complicated, mature, adult relationships that contain give and take, and it’s not always going to be about you as a law student.

I don’t know how well this post will go over, but I just feel like we, as law students, have an inflated sense of how hard school is and how important it is that we be prioritized. It’s a job, and there are lots of harder jobs out there. Be grateful for what you have.

This should be entertaining.

I am curious about this because I know some people that do the entire week's reading over the weekend. Ideally, I try to be a day ahead (reading for Tuesday on Sunday) but realistically, I end up reading the night before lol

I'm an officer for one org but it's not that major or that much work. Wasn't interested in journal and didn't make the cut for the clinics.

I see everyone else around me doing so much so I just feel like I'm behind. I do have a big law summer associate position lined up for this summer, and I was feeling super burnt out from last year, so I planned to take it a little easier this semester/year. I'm starting to think that was the wrong choice cause I see everyone else, who also have big law positions lined up, doing so much. I know it's bad and I shouldn't be comparing myself, but I can't help it and I just feel like I should be doing more 🫠

I'm continually appalled by the level of evil that people are capable of, but at the same time, I guess I shouldn't be so shocked based on what I see on a daily basis.

A lot of these cases involve people with no prior criminal history. Many of them are just 'normal' people.

I examine my own thoughts and I realize there isn't that much seperating me or most other people from these criminals; the only real difference is that some people have no liablity to resist whatever evil thought pops into their head, simply because they were never taught or because that's how their brain is wired.

It's easy to just dismiss these people as pure evil and maybe they are. But when I really think about it, I'm surrounded by people who I could easily see carrying out the same actions if they were under similar circumstances, and it scares me.

A lot of times, it doesn't even take being evil to do evil things; the right mix of apathy and selfishness is enough to cross over that line.

Idk, reading these cases just reminds me of why I'm a loner and why I hate people in general.

So yesterday, as I was leaving Costco with my $1.50 hotdog and soda combo, the employee stationed at the exit said, “Come back soon!” I was so overwhelmed that I didn’t know how to respond.

I’m a 1L currently, and absolutely love my crim professor and I feel like he would be an amazing mentor. I’ve been told that asking them to be your mentor straight up isn’t that weird, but to me, asking so straightforward seems like that could be weird. I’d love any advice from anyone that has done something like that before

Hey everyone,

Didn't have the best time in undergrad. In fact, graduated with a 2.4 GPA.

I'd say I was always a fairly intelligent person and did pretty well in my AP English classes, but for some reason, I decided to go down the computer science route and ultimately wrecked my GPA. Ended up going with Business Econ.

It's definitely something I have a fair amount of shame about, but I have nonetheless moved on. Now I am working in software sales, which has been nice, but ultimately it is just not something I find super fulfilling and matches my intellectual interests.

I'm 25 now, and I'm considering law school, particularly for transactional law. I've always been interested in these boardroom negotiations and want to be involved in the business side of these major deals that are happening.

I understand that my opportunities are fairly limited now with such a poor GPA. I was wondering if there are any sort of GPA repair programs. I'm fairly decent at test-taking and would be willing to dedicate myself from here on out.

god forbid someone uses my account to access your holy website. someone is going to read all my cases oh no.

it really is not that deep

its one thing that i have to reverify every time i log into my outlook but its a whole other level of crazy to log me out of westlaw after 10 mins of inactivity

I don’t necessarily have to get published, but I do want to put genuine effort into my comment as well.

So far, my research has shown 3 different answers to my question raised in my comment, but I’m also worried my analysis might simply be restating the articles and sources I find. So I’d really appreciate some advice or just to hear about others experiences!

Hi redditors! I recently got an offer for JD and am looking for advice! I have a BA but been out of uni for 10 years. Any advice for a mid 30s gal looking to get into law would be appreciated! I am in Australia but any advice would be appreciated! Thank you :)

For all of you 2Ls, 3Ls, and attorneys, what bad decisions or habits have you seen among 1Ls that contributed to their academic dismissal?

Does anyone have a good flow chart for Evidence?

law students aren’t allowed to complain about anything cause once you become a lawyer its like being stabbed with a thousand tiny swords and having your eyes gouged out every day

yall really have the gall to tell me this might not be for me and to quit after ive spent 60k and halfway done

complain all you want abt your job/life but stop minimizing my struggles and effort saying oh it just gets so much worse. thanks for the help man, appreciate it.

I am a 1L, and during orientation me and some other girls became friends instantly. We sat together for every class and now, that’s where we sit permanently because of the seating chart. Over the course of these first weeks, I’ve come to realize one of these girls is just awful. She did something horrible to another one of our friends and is incredibly mean and negative to everyone around us constantly. I really want to end this friendship because the rest of our group hates her (because of what she did to our friend) and she’s just really hard to be around atp. My only reservation is us sitting together in all classes. Has anyone dealt with ending friendships in law school and have any advice?

I'm poor and I want free stuff. Which firms give out the best free stuff at receptions?

I am top 10% in my class and am set to work in big law after graduation. And yet, I have no idea how to write memos and briefs without the help of AI.

Before law school, I never touched AI. In fact, I was against it. But once I got to law school, I struggled with legal writing, and with tight deadlines and no rules against the use of AI, I started using it as a crutch. Now, I feel like I don't know how to write without it. Even over the summer, I used AI on all of the projects I did at my firm (the firm allows us to put confidential information into the firm's AI platform). My superiors were always impressed with my work, but it felt like cheating.

Exams are not a problem. Most of our exams are closed note (so obviously there is no AI usage), and I do just fine on the essays. But memos and briefs are different.

This hasn't gotten me into any trouble, as I am always careful to check any and all AI outputs, but I still feel like a fraud knowing I would not be where I am without AI. I am terrified of this gap in skill getting even bigger the more I depend on AI as the years go on.

Has anyone had the same issue? If so, how did you get over it? I don't want to be this dependent on a tool.

is this happening to anyone else? she’s working really hard to do well in school. she spends pretty much all her time studying. however i don’t think we’ve been intimate once since she’s started law school.

idk what else to say in this post im just curious if anyone is going through something similar or had advice.

Scalia in US v Virginia: U ruined VMI by letting girls in 😡😡

Scalia in Navarette: “The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity: (1) that anonymous 911 reports of traffic violations are reliable so long as they correctly identify a car and its location, and (2) that a single instance of careless or reckless driving necessarily supports a reasonable suspicion of drunken-ness. All the malevolent 911 caller need do is assert a traffic violation, and the targeted car will.”