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How to prepare if your summer associate program might be canceled

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there may be some uncertainty about whether your summer associate program might be canceled. This is due to news of summer classes being canceled, shortened, delayed, postponed, and going virtual.

If your summer plans are working at a firm, this post will give you some tips on how to prepare in case your summer associate program is canceled.

Legal Research and Writing Tips for 1Ls

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Legal Research and Writing Tips for 1Ls

Legal research and writing is a very important component of 1L year. In this post, we offer five legal research and writing tips for 1Ls! These are skills you will use the rest of your legal career, so developing a strong foundation is critical. This is not a class that you should ignore or write off. You will be well rewarded in your future for possessing strong legal research and writing skills!

Law Review: Advantages and Disadvantages

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Law Review: Advantages and Disadvantages

When it comes time to choosing an extracurricular program in law school, students should consider law review. Read further to see the positives and negatives!

Five Helpful Legal Editing Tips

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Five Helpful Legal Editing Tips

After all your hard work researching and writing, the last, and most important, step before submission is to edit your legal document. Here are a few general legal editing tips to look out for to make the piece clean and precise before submission to a court, boss, professor, or client.

Legal Citation Help: Parallel Citations

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Legal Citation Help: Parallel Citations

Whether you are a law student, an associate, or have been a practicing attorney for years, parallel citations in legal writing can be a mystery. We’re here to help you unravel what a parallel citation is, and when to use one!

Is It Worth It To Get A Legal Writing Tutor?

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Is It Worth It To Get A Legal Writing Tutor?

Legal writing is often a rude awakening for many entering law school. Often, students assume if they are good writers, this skill will naturally adapt itself to legal writing. However, this is far from true! Legal writing is something that needs to be worked at and mastered. So, if you struggle with legal writing, it could affect the rest of your law school performance. Read further to see why a legal writing tutor could be the best investment you make!

6 Tips To Improve Your Legal Writing in Law School

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6 Tips To Improve Your Legal Writing in Law School

6 Tips To Improve Your Legal Writing in Law School: Legal writing and analysis is a type of writing in which we are trying to analyze a particular issue, educate, and, in some cases, persuade the reader. Therefore, by nature, the approach that you will take in legal writing is very particular. And, because legal writing is particular, it can help to remember some general rules and tips to improve your legal writing in law school.

How to Make the Most of Meeting with your Legal Writing Professor

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How to Make the Most of Meeting with your Legal Writing Professor — Written by a Legal Writing Professor!

How to Make the Most of Meeting with your Legal Writing Professor: During your first year of law school, you will find that in many ways, time is not your friend. It’s not even a ‘friendly acquaintance’! So, what this means for you is that you want to make the most out of your time, whether you are working on assignments or, as you will be doing during both your first and second semesters, meeting with your LRW professor in one-on-one conferences. Here are some tips for meeting with your legal writing professor.

Top Five 1L Legal Writing tips

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Top Five 1L Legal Writing tips: As you start your first year of law school, you will be surprised by how much advice you will receive from …everyone! What follows however, is some great advice as you prepare for one of your most important classes, Legal Writing. This is written by a legal writing professor who has seen the same mistakes made by 1L’s – over and over! Read more

Pre-Law and 1L Tip: When to Avoid Using Passive Voice in Legal Writing

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The Perils of Passive Voice in Legal Writing

As a first-year student in law school, (1L), your schedule will include several required courses. One of the most important classes which you will take is Legal Writing. In Legal Writing, students learn how to conduct legal research, and how to write both objectively (i.e., legal memoranda) and, as an advocate (e.g., a trial brief or an appellate brief). (We will discuss writing objectively and as an advocate another time.) Read more

Law School Prep: 30 Legal Terms To Know Before Law School

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30 Legal Terms to Know Before Law School

If you are heading to law school next year, you may want to start preparing now. We will be writing a series of blog posts over the summer for students interested in using part of the summer to prepare for law school. Read more

Five Legal Writing Tips for Students Starting Law School

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Many students have trouble tackling their first legal writing assignments. Your legal writing class will require you to think, write, and structure your assignments in a different way than you are used to. Many students have difficulty grasping this new way of writing. We recommend that you do your best to improve your legal writing right from the beginning of law school. Your efforts will shine through not only in your legal writing class but also in your other substantive law classes. Thus, below are five legal writing tips for students starting law school. Read more

Before Starting Law School: Legal Writing Tips

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Before Starting Law School: Legal Writing Tips

Being able to effectively articulate whatever it is you are trying to convey is arguably one of the most important skills a lawyer must possess. Whether you are trying to argue a specific position or merely informing the reader about a topic, being able to do so in an eloquent way is an expectation in the legal world. It is also an expectation in law school. If you struggle with legal writing, you may struggle to get high grades in not only your legal writing classes but also your other substantive law classes. Writing is a very important part of law school. Read more

Our New Legal Writing Tutoring Options – for Law Students and Pre-Law Students

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Should I go to law school if I do not want to practice law?

We are excited to introduce our new legal writing tutoring packages for both pre-law students and law students! We have been helping students learn how to write and research effectively for quite a while now. We have been asked if there are any legal writing packages for students who want to consistently meet with a tutor to improve their skills. Several students have also wanted to meet with a legal writing tutor prior to even starting law school to get a head start on legal writing skills. We highly recommend this as Legal writing is one of the most important classes you will take in law school.

Not only will your legal writing skills affect your grade in your legal writing class, it will also affect your scores on all of your law school exams and the bar exam. Further, it is worth it to invest in your legal writing abilities as they will help you tremendously when you begin to practice law. Many of our students say that they feel confident when they begin their jobs as lawyers because they know how to research, properly cite cases, and write quality legal memorandums and briefs. Read more