By: Ben Faulkner
The typical progression of the responses one will receive after expressing his or her plan to attend law school runs the gamut from “Don’t do it!” to “Congratulations!” In between, after cutting through the lawyer jokes, one ends up with an onslaught of tips and advice. When I decided to attend law school, I did my due diligence: I read the quintessential books and blogs and I reached out to attorneys and law students. In return, I ended up with a lot of advice, including suggestions that I should purchase Emanuel Guides, buddy up with a few upperclassmen to get their old outlines, brief the cases directly in my casebook, use different color highlighters to set apart the facts, issue, reasoning, and conclusion, and a bunch of other nonsense that I choose to forget. Two weeks into my first semester, I abandoned all attempts to follow any of the aforementioned advice and found my own niche.
