Rule 9
Don’t Forsake Free Help
During your first weeks of law school, you will be infused by a variety of free study aids and digital platforms to use during your law school career. Many students will wait until the middle of the semester to sign up for these free online resources. Do not wait!
Included in many of these resources are not only secondary source matter but access to study aids, black-letter law outlines, and more. (Black-letter law is just the well-established understanding of core legal rules.) Some providers even have free video lectures of core IL subjects as part of their offering. In addition, a few of the vendors provide free study aids that cost money to obtain otherwise. Study aids are simply books or digital materials that try to break down the information in an easily digestible way. The value of these resources to a law student is immeasurable.
In addition, law schools have professional academic success programs designed to help you. Professors who have studied, mastered, and thought about how to help students learn the law are in the building. Go to them. Seek them out. Learn. You have experts who have devoted their careers to this particular skill set just waiting for you to introduce yourself. Academic success professors may be the most important professors you meet. Find them and seek their guidance. Remember that you are not the first law student embarking on this path. There exists an entire supportive infrastructure to help you find your way.