Law in Contemporary Society

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Let's conduct a thought experiment. "If someone you loved were entering as a 1L in September of 2008, how would you help that person do better than you did?"
    Pretend that the person you love wants out of law school the same thing you wanted out of law school.
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 2) The curve is bullshit. Teachers could just as well grade us in absolute terms and then tweak the boundaries to conform to the curve. It makes sense: we're a motley bunch ... given a fair test, a random cross-section of 90 1Ls is going to conform to a curve.
Given that fact: More CONFIDENCE in grades is what I'm after, not better grades -- my goal is to make the content of the class (the object of empathy) more objective, less fuzzy, so that a bad grade can be defined in terms of "not learning material" rather than (as it currently is) "insufficient empathy."

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>		1) Isn't the important part of law school the process of figuring out the law from the noise? Give someone the perfect outline, and they won't do as well as the person who created the perfect outline, or even the person who tries to make their own outline from the source materials, not the other outlines. Good lawyers don't have kickass outlines, they know how to read, comprehend, and create working knowledge of their source materials.
 
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>		2) Many teachers do grade on absolute terms and then tweak the boundaries to the curve. I know Robert Scott's class... the highest grade was something around 50% of the absolute score.

I do have many good friends entering law school. I'm not the best person to give them advice, but I told them to: 1) Limit extracurricular activities & commitments to 4-5 hours a week at most. 2) Take a law school exam writing course. 3) Reduce readings to black letter law before class. 4) Use class to understand the application of the various elements of the cases or principles that were at the heart of the reading. 5) Clean up your outline every 2 weeks or so. 6) Use exam preparation period for group practice exams and review your answers against others in your section.
 
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>		I didn't follow all of those bullet points myself, but that the best advice I can conjure from my first year here.
 
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