Finally, summer is upon us and if you recently completed your 1L or 2L year, you may be gearing up for quite the summer ahead! A season of no classes, an opportunity to reclaim the social life that your busy law school semesters absorbed, and if you have a summer job coming up, the possibility of earning an income.
If you’re reading this post with a summer job on the horizon, you may be wondering what steps you should take when you ultimately receive your first summer assignment, or if you’ve already started your summer job, perhaps you’ve completed an assignment but found yourself a bit lost during the process. If you find yourself in either of these categories, don’t stress! Legal assignments can be extremely complex, and you are by no means alone in your concerns about whether you can execute them correctly.
Considering these concerns, I’ve put together this quick guide with a couple of questions you can ask your assigning attorney this summer. Keep in mind that this is not a foolproof guide, but just a couple of tips that have helped me through the years.
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So you’ve finally digested all the holiday ham, turkey and candied yams your body can endure and now it’s time to face the music – your final exam grades. If you’ve already received them and they were not as great as you anticipated, but you can still feel your heart beating, and you can still process air within your lungs, then you’ve survived. I mean, not doing well on finals in all honesty sucks, but if you’re reading this post, you are already taking a step towards improvement, and your dedication and application can make all the difference the next time around.
Congratulations! You made it through your first semester of law school during a global pandemic. Honestly, if it were up to me, I’d say you’ve already earned the “Esquire” title. The perseverance, resilience, and diligence that you applied to make it through a semester that was fraught with uncertainty and chaos, on top of a complex and demanding law school curriculum is commendable. Therefore, you deserve all the praise and recognition that I hope is coming your way, and, most importantly, you deserve this winter break. You deserve a few weeks of rest. A few weeks to pat yourself on the back and simply say “I did that.” Not to mention a few weeks of all the winter dishes and treats that your heart desires.
Getting F-1 visa approval and beginning the journey as an international student in the United States, is an exciting and life-changing accomplishment.
Well, the quick answer to this unforeseen debacle is, no. The realistic answer however, is no, but it will take effort to make and maintain these friendships.
When you took the LSAT, watched “Legally Blonde” or completed numerous law school tours, you may have started to envision what your law school experience would be like. Although your vision would likely vary based on your exposure to different school settings, it’s unlikely that you visualized your first semester being primarily behind a laptop screen, within a videoconferencing interface, while sitting on your bed, dining room table or floor of your home. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic bears down with not much sign of relief in sight, many law students will have to