First Year Law School

What if you could begin law school knowing what to expect before your first day of class? "The ABCs of Law School: Diary of a First Year Student" takes listeners behind the scenes of the first year of law school through Teresa Power's own experiences as a law student. Written by Teresa Power, J...

“Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law Professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering.