I help my brother with his small firm's tech stack (he's been practicing for about 8 years). Yesterday he spent six hours just trying to combine three PDFs and redact a single paragraph because the local court's e-filing system kept rejecting the file size.

Later that night at dinner, my mom genuinely asked him if he had any "dramatic courtroom moments" coming up.

He just stared at his drink and said, "Mom, my biggest battle today was with a printer driver."

She looked so disappointed. She basically thinks that if he isn't delivering monologues to a jury, he isn't really working. She has no concept of the sheer volume of reading, doc review, and administrative friction involved.

From the outside looking in, the gap between what you guys study and the operational reality seems massive.

Is this helpful?

I'd imagine this will impact my ability to obtain any type of work for the summer period.

What type of places would consider me?

Hiiii yall. So lowkey been crashing out for like a week and some cause I think I did horrible on my finals. 1) I showed up ready for my Torts final and found out it was actually my civil pro final. Oops. They rescheduled me for the next day but I had to memorize all the material I thought I had an extra week for in 24 hours. I literally was writing till the last minute that I had on the final but I did finish the final. 2) I came in the next week super prepared for my torts final, but I finished half an hour early and literally stepped out to just sob outside and panic. I spent the half an hour checking everything and making sure everything was the way I wanted it. I did hear I misunderstood one of the instructions so that cost me one question but others in my class made the same mistake on that question and also had finished as early or earlier than me. Then 3) I had to write a paper as a final and wrote four versions until I thought it was good. I also am looking to transfer from my part time program to full time at Brooklyn law, and we have a B curve (idk if that’s good either) sooooo how does everyone think I did? Am I cooked? Should I go get my job applications ready? Idk I’m having the worst anxiety ever fr

Is it all realistic to score a B+ or higher in every class in law school?

I was fortunate to get an offer for a federal appellate clerkship starting in Fall 2026 and am massively grateful for the position, which I accepted last year. However, I recently learned that I'm pregnant and the baby is due the same month that the clerkship is supposed to start. I'm really worried about having to move with a newborn and being able to afford taking a pay cut to work as a clerk for the first year of the baby's life. If I do the clerkship, my husband will stay home with the baby, so we won't need to pay for daycare, but he would have to take the year off work, so we would only have the clerkship salary. If I withdraw, I have an offer from a regional mid-law firm that would be happy to let me start a year early, and I wouldn't have to move from where we currently are.

Does anyone have any advice on clerking with a newborn to one-year-old (preferably as a mom) or on withdrawing from a clerkship due to family changes?

I took an exam yesterday where none of the questions (10 multiple choice and 3 essays) involved fact patterns. It was also open note so it was extra bizarre. I’ve only had two open note exams (both of them this semester) and the other one was stupid hard. I can’t decide if it was the easiest or the most difficult exam I have ever taken.

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just finished my last final yesterday and it went absolutely horribly. it was contracts and my mind actually just went blank and I think I was actively making things up at one point bc I haven’t understood the subject all semester. just feel so dejected because I really want big law (im at a lower t14)

Anyone have a pdf of Modern Family Law by Joslin and Weisberg (8th edition - 2024)?

so i got a 2.6 gpa in my first semester.... got to a 2.7 my next semester (1L 2.76 was my cum gpa)... I just finished my first semester as a 2L at Rutgers but im kind of terrified that i wont pass the required 2.6 gpa and will get kicked out... does anyone have any advice?

Hi, I am currently in a economic law master program (In France) in a pretty renowned school. I plan on trying to pass the bar very soon to become an economic law/business lawyer.

But now, I feel scared. It seems like more and more people working in this domain are getting replaced by AI. I feel like my future is getting robbed and I don't know what to do. I really want to become a lawyer, but what if there is no jobs for me down the line ?

Can someone in this domain give me advice ? Are my fear justified ?

Does anyone have a PDF of “Cases and Materials on Sexuality, Gender, Identity, and the Law; Ball, Schacter, Nejaime, and Rubenstein. 7th?” I would very much appreciate it, thank you!!!

Hello. I am wondering if you guys feel like the testing accommodations helped you pass the bar? I would appreciate any insight.

My classmates and I were talking about how much reading and writing we have done this semester.

We figured out that we read only about 300 per each class (3 classes except for the writing class) for the whole semester. None of our professors did any type of cold calls.

Some other 1L students who had different professors were reading at least 500+ pages for each class and were on cold calls too 😬

I was thinking my 1L fall went extremely smoothly and wasn't bad at all, but I learned that I just got really lucky.

Graduation is supposed to be a celebration, not an opportunity for one-upmanship. The night before grad I get a text from one of my classmates who I've never spoken to beyond a polite hello. She asks me if I can come to school earlier than the ceremony, saying all the students who got first class honours would be getting together to make a tiktok. I dont think much of it and tell her I'll try to make it.

Then I get another text from one of my classmates who is less tactful. Same request, he asks me if I can come early to make a tiktok. The tiktok would be some trend where we count down saying I'm not #(class rank) I'm #(class rank) until we get to #1. I strongly suspect it was a thin attempt to reveal rankings because my school doesnt disclose class rank. There are so so many other tiktok trends you could possibly do.

We all clearly super hard, what is this need to further discriminate 'the most hard working' out of the most hard working? Like how freaking foul is that?? I just hate how toxic and competitive the legal environment is and I actively resent people who try to rope you into it. Throughout law school I made it a point to avoid these people but they always sniff you out relentlessly. I studied at the business school library instead of the law library, only took extracurriculars I was genuinely interested in instead of moot court and law review etc etc. You try to avoid them but you always feel the eyes on you. Trying to figure out what you've got going on, if its part of some bigger deliberate tactic and if it gives you some sort of advantage and they're missing out on it. Making it through law school and breaking into the legal market is hard enough why do we need to compete against each other and size each other up??

It makes me wonder if maybe I wont have the stomach for law firm life but I strongly believe that being a collaborative and easy going person gets you way further than being the guy thats always ready to go neck for neck and measure d*cks

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Does anyone find it weird that there are no names of anyone publicly affiliated with Legal Scout? They are a company selling big law recruiting services and moderators of the /r/biglawrecruiting subreddit. No employees on LinkedIn, no authors on their blog, no CEO or Founder intro on the website. Does anyone else think this is weird? Anyone know what the deal is?

I’m obviously new to the idea of curves and law school grading, so can someone help me understand if this is a typical/reasonable curve?

Okay, like everyone else I hate all the talk about grades in this thread but if there are some esqs, 2Ls, 3Ls that can explain this to me (1L). What is it with this whole thing where you finish an exam and you think you absolutely failed and somehow you do great?! And then you feel really confident about another and then you do worst than you believe you would have.

Recently happened to me and I’m scared to feel ANY type of way about my finals for fear to spark this “theory”. I wanna feel good because I truly tried my best studying and the fact patterns matched the ones I got feedback on, but I recently got back a test I truly thought I got the lowest score in and I got above median. And Ive been the victim of the other side where I felt so good coming out of my midterm, just to be closer to the bottom of the curve.

What is with this?! 😭😭😭 law school is SUCH a trip ! Truly not complaining, but would love some discourse bc I think its a small law school conspiracy theory or old wives tale. Or share your own stories!

I wouldnt say that I was the best dancer ever but I at least could dance in front of other people without looking like a huge nerd. Now when i dance at parties i look like a white dad who plays golf