Asking for a Friend: What 1L Students Most Want to Know

Asking for a Friend: What 1L Students Most Want to Know

Description

First-year ("1L") law students have questions. The 1L year is a lot. Everything is new and mysterious, and it all happens so fast. Especially at the beginning, being a 1L can be like trying to take a drink from a firehose. Within just days of their arrival, 1Ls find themselves in a new field, new environment, and new community, and on a new road to a future in the legal profession. Most have had very little to go on before law school to help with their questions about how to manage the pressure and relentless pace of all the daily newness in their 1L classes, studying, and applying for summer legal jobs.

As if that weren't enough, 1Ls commonly have bigger, more distracting questions on their minds - including whether they belong in law school or even whether they want to stay. The worries that go along with those questions can really add up, especially in the first semester, making it very hard to focus on all that they need to learn in 1L classes.

Asking for a Friend was written to get 1Ls started. It contains nearly 150 questions that decades of past new 1Ls have asked. Along with gap-filling background and context, the answers include recommended next steps to help 1Ls turn their worries and fears into questions so that they can get them answered and start making the most of the 1L year for themselves.

No matter whether they are still considering law school, just starting 1L, or already in the second semester of 1L - it is not too late for 1Ls to start getting their own information about 1L so that they can feel more seen, less anxious, less overwhelmed, and better equipped to navigate the 1L year and to decide for themselves whether law school is right for them and for the meaningful future that they imagine.

ISBN

978-1-5310-2788-9

Publication Date

2-2027

Publisher

Carolina Academic Press

Keywords

law school, 1L

Disciplines

Law | Legal Education

Asking for a Friend: What 1L Students Most Want to Know

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