Insider Tip: In the sea of law school advice and expert opinions, it's easy to lose sight of your most valuable compass: your inner voice.
ChallengeYourself: Are you inadvertently suppressing your instincts, potentially undermining your own academic potential?
In law school, I caught myself doing something I've worked really hard never to do as a lawyer and business owner: taking advice that went against my gut instinct.
Every time I ignored my intuition in school, I paid for it. And not just in whatever resulted from the bad advice, but something worse.
I got mad at myself for not listening to the voice in my head that knew what was best for me, regardless of what the "smart" people told me to do.
The Problem With Expert Advice
The study advice from an "expensive tutor" felt wrong—and it was. The calendaring strategy I learned from a "top influencer" felt off—and didn't work with my peak brain function times. The networking advice I got from the Big Law wealthy attorney felt slimy—and it was gross.
I should have listened to my own hesitation. Here's the problem with not doing that.
Insider Tip: Don't study the subject. Study the topics in the subject.
Challenge Yourself: Pick one class and find the topic hiding inside it.
Most law students don't think about law school in topics.
They think about classes.
Contracts.
Torts.
Civil Procedure.
Evidence.
And then they spend the semester moving from reading to class to notes to outlining to studying—often without stopping ...
Insider Tip: Celebrating grades and rankings matters—but so does celebrating the people navigating a law school system that was never designed around the realities they carry.
Challenge Yourself: Given everything you’re balancing, recognize what it took just to make it this far.
There is a version of success in law school that gets celebrated loudly.
Top grades. Awards. Honors. Public recogn...
Insider Tip: Your brain doesn’t store what it recognizes when you read—it stores what it retrieves when you ask it.
Challenge Yourself: After reading your next case, close everything and explain the key case components without looking. If you can’t explain them out loud, don’t move on yet—there’s more learning needed.
Most law students think they’re “actively reading” when they’re really ju...
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