Welcome to the Law School Experience

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Welcome to the Law School Experience

• Teaching methods
• Vast amounts of information
• Open your mind and sharpen your pencil
• Keep your life in order

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Class Preparation

• Carefully read and brief the cases
• Think of questions about the reading
• About a case
• About the cases
• About the law
• Look for common points
• Take it to the next level

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Focus

• On class
• Whats the profs focus?
• How are you evaluated?
• When you read
• Get it the first time
• Whats the issue?
• Whats the rule?
• What are the salient facts?
• Get used to the amount
• On the big picture
• Fit in the reading
• Fit in class

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In-Class Learning

• Listen
• People talking without speaking, People hearing
  without listening
• Take your notes
• Pay attention to hypos and summaries

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Post-Class Learning

• Take 10 post-class thinking
• Talk to your profs
• Talk to upper class students
• Do not blindly gather information!

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Study Groups

• Does not matter how you used to study
• Difficult to manage everything alone
• Gain some support
• Have clear goals responsibilities
• Conversation is knowledge
• Research shows
• My experience shows

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Get Stay Organized

• Time management is critical
• Make a weekly schedule and a semester schedule
• Study time is study time
• Give yourself breaks at meaningful times
• Then get back to studying

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What Else Can I Do?

• Successful Student Series
• Talk to me (always happy to meet!)
• Email j-lupo2_at_law.northwestern.edu
• Call 3-4850
• Just ask this is your school and your
  experience you must take ownership of it!

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• Respect the profession
• Believe in yourself
• Believe in success
• Dont be afraid to ask
• Get support whenever you need it
• Know you will succeed