1L Success

Demosthenes49
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:38:47 +0000

@ Neonzeus

Study groups should be with people smarter than you, not with people better on exams. For one thing, there’s no way to know that 1L since you haven’t taken any exams yet. For another, who cares how good they are? The point isn’t to absorb their ability to apply law to facts, the point is to see the holes in your reasoning or the triggering facts that they caught and you didn’t so you know to be on the lookout next time.

The fact that people have attended Legal Bootcamp doesn’t make it a good idea. Plenty of people attend Cooley too, that doesn’t somehow make it a good investment. The question is not “do prospective law students think this will be helpful,” the question is “on exams, will my experience at Legal Bootcamp be helpful, and will it be sufficiently helpful to justify the cost.” The entrance expectations are meaningless, only the results count. I doubt greatly that any one-week course could prepare you such that you would see any real return on an exam. I doubt further that any return would exceed the cost of both unlearning any material they give you that conflicts with how your professor wants to see it, and the generally high monetary cost of attendance. There’s no need to take my word for it though, just pop over to TLS and read any of the dozens of threads and the hundreds of reviews and replies on legal bootcamps.