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AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "The Use of Leading Questions During Illinois Depositions."

The Weekly Law School Roundup #140

Here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Unnecessary News about the LSAT. [Law is Cool]

Unneeded Things that annoy you in class. [A Woman in Law School and Lawful Living and A (non)Token Minority Law Student]

Connections Ideas for networking in law school. [Law Ingenue]

Class Action One view of the legal system. [Fight the Hypo]

Inspiration What's good about weblogs. [J.D.? ... Maybe]

Networking Professors in court. [Non Traditional Law Student]

Risk Law school and employment decisions. [The Shark]

Discovery Unmasking the dead. [delicious torts]

Professionals What the label means. [terra nullius]

Lessons Worst dates ever. [PT-LawMom]

Roundup Moms-in-the-Legal-Profession #65. [butterflyfish]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Still More about Multidistrict Litigation."

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "About This Weblog: the Deposition Category."

THE WEEKLY LAW SCHOOL ROUNDUP . . . The Weekly Law School Roundup alternates between The Legal Underground and Thanks, But No Thanks, where you can find this week's Weekly Law School Roundup #139. The next installment will appear here soon, so be sure to check back.

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "A Writing Tip You Can't Afford to Miss."

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Dictation in the 21st Century: What You Need to Know."

The Weekly Law School Roundup #138

Here's your weekly list of good posts from the past week by law students, some current or almost current, some recently-graduated--

Prepared Mocking a mock trial. [butterflyfish]

Frustration Dumbing down law-school classes. [Fight the Hypo]

Nirvana,  Wrecked  Problems at the library. [Legally Numb] 

Beauty About some photographs . . . [The Merits of the Case]

Being Jeffersonian Thoughts on a federal clerkship. [The War of All Against All]

Foreign Policy Thoughts on Sarah Palin. [Knocked Up (and in Law School)]

Tracks Reforming law-school education. [The Shark]

Concepts Distractions as a threat to learning. [The Legal Optimist]

Point of View The benefits of being a little older. [delicious torts]

Cream Something important to know about law school. [Thanks, But No Thanks]

Positive Thoughts on the first week of law school. [No. 634]

Amazing More thoughts on the start of the law-school year. [But for the Sky]

Discomfort A trip to the doctor. [Jollylawger]

Surge Water on a map. [PT-LawMom]

Punctuation Sarah Palin's t-shirt. [Traditional Notions]

Information The 2008 OCIP callback thread. [Nuts & Boalts]

Look for next week's roundup at Thanks, But No Thanks then it's back here the week after that. You can find some other recent roundups in the "At the Law Schools 2" category, as well as sixty or so older roundups from 2004-2005 here. Finally, if you want to know how I choose posts to highlight, see "How I Write the Weekly Law School Roundup." (If you have a law-student weblog that I don't seem to know about or that isn't in my blogroll, please send me an email.)

AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "Depositions and Interpreters."

LAW SCHOOL, THE SLACKER EDITION For those thinking about law school, here's a book to consider: The Slacker's Guide to Law School: Success Without Stress, by Juan Doria.

While the juxtaposition of law school with "slacker" is eye-catching, it's the second part of the book's title--the part that comes after the colon--that's a better description of Doria's book. It isn't really for or about slackers, in other words.

In the introduction, Doria describes his own law-school experience--

I simply did not let the stress get to me. Not when I was on call, not before exams, not during the job hunt. This drove some of my classmates crazy, and some of them even hated me for it. But instead of hating, they should have tried to mimic my approach. Anyone can do it, and it doesn't take hours of meditation. It just takes a conscious effort to remain clam when everyone around you is hysterical, and the consideration of some other tips included in this book.

While the book might not really remove the stress of law school for those who are stress-prone, there are plenty of tips for giving it a try. You'll find chapters on choosing a law school, applying to law school, classes, exams, and finding a job, all written by someone who says he had a "reputation as a slacker," but who wasn't really.

If you're worried about the (generally correct) assumption that law school can be stressful, add this book to your pre-law-school reading list. Keep in mind, however, that if you have a pre-law-school reading list, you're hardly a slacker in the first place, and are probably going to be pretty stressed no matter what you do.