For those of you about to take Business Associations (or who are thinking of taking it later).

My wonderful friend, Prof. Walter Effross, has some good advice here.

Last-minute advice for bar exam takers.

It's Sunday.  The bar exam is on Tuesday.  Some unsolicited advice:

1. You are not going to learn new things now.  That's ok.  Don't panic.  
2. Given #1, give yourself today and tomorrow (until 5p) to study.  Then STOP.  Do something relaxing Monday evening.  We're big fans of watching dumb, funny movies and going to bed early.
3. Give yourself plenty of time to get to the exam site each day.  Don't stress yourself out by running late or forgetting that the Gods of Bar Stress love traffic jams and transit breakdowns.
4. Consider packing your lunch so that you don't have to wait in long lines listening to other people talk about the exam.  Go for a walk at lunch, or do something else relaxing.
5. On Tuesday night, write down the subjects that you discussed in Tuesday's exam.  You likely don't need to review those subjects for Thursday's questions.  Bar examiners are pretty smart about not repeating themselves.
6. Remember the "consenting adults" rule:  don't talk about the exam in public, because someone will go away from that conversation very unhappy.  (You don't want that person to be you, and you really don't want to hurt another human, either, right?)  
7. File away, for later, the funny things that happen during the bar exam.  When one of us took the California exam, the person next to her wore bracelets that scraped the table over and over.  By Thursday, there was ... a discusssion ... about why taking the bracelets off would be a smart thing to do.  When the same one of us took the Nevada exam, parts of the ceiling kept falling on her table, triggering thoughts of tort liability and sovereign immunity.
8. Try to be kind to other people -- especially friends and family, but not just them -- while you're under extreme stress.  They will remember the unfunny parts of the bar exam period.
9. BREATHE.

Law School Survival Manual cited in Journal of Legal Education

Thanks, Kris Franklin!  (Article here.)  And while I'm at it, thanks, Patti Alleva & Jennifer A. Gundlach, for citing my Rethinking U.S. Legal Education: No More “Same Old, Same Old” article in their article (here).     

Great post from LawProfBlawg on transitions in the 1L year.

Here.  And I dare you not to have an earworm after you read it.

Great post-grades advice from Lawprofblawg and Above the Law.

Here.

More great advice from LawProfBlawg and Above the Law, this time about exams.

Here.

Lawprofblawg and Above the Law have great advice for 1Ls (UPDATED 8/23/15)

See here and here.

Great interview about law school exam grading--thanks, Above the Law and LawProfBlawg!

A great interview (here).

Should 30 law schools close?

Given Above the Law's post about the relative usefulness of some law schools (here), as well as TaxProf Blog's posts (here), I can't resist a tiny bit of "I told you so," based on my 2012 article on the three types of law schools (here).  It's an interesting debate.

Interesting take on why law schools exist.

My dad forwarded this essay to me this morning.  I'm not sure that I agree wholeheartedly, because the essay disregards how much one can learn from a truly great lawyer.  (Just ask my hubby how much he learned from Chuck Kettlewell; or ask me how much I learned from Hank Hudspeth or some of the lawyers at MoFo.)

One can have bad professors or good ones; one can learn from bad lawyers or good ones.  The point is that law can be a powerful tool, and it's good to learn about the uses of that power from people who use that power wisely.

Some humor from LawProfBlawg

For those of you thinking of law school (here).

Business boot camp? Good advice for all law students.

Check out this story in the NYT.  If you can't read a balance sheet, get some additional coaching, either from your law school or from a business school.  It'll be worth your time.

Missing some of the arts in your legal education?

(Cross-posted here.)  In this post, Prof. Sue Liemer reviews a book that was based on a conference at the University of Edinburgh.  The conference focused on using the arts to better understand the law.

Want some great tips on writing?

See here.

My latest proofreading affidavit.

Is here. 

Thanks, Above the Law, for mentioning our book!

We were tickled pink to see this mention of our Law School Survival Manual today (check under "Books"). 

For folks who are interested in moving to law school from community colleges, an article that discusses the possible paths.

We're touting our companion book, Law Firm Job Survival Manual, as part of this interview (here).

Another reason why you should work out.

See here.

Summer associates--some really good etiquette advice from Corporette.

Here, from a cross-posting on the Law Firm Job Survival Manual blog.

Don't treat the USNWR rankings as gospel.

Here's a nice point of view, written by someone who got his JD at the same school as my husband.