Aggregated Content for 1Ls from around the forums

[Hstrat]

I'm compiling useful original content from LSL, Reddit, and the graveyard that is TLS that might be helpful to us as we start law school. This is especially geared towards 1Ls, but there's some stuff that other students may find useful as well.

If anyone has anything else they think should be included, please comment so that I can get it added.

First, a good reminder: You are worth more than what you do at school

Other Aggregation Pages
LSL and TLS both have their own site-specific pages that aggregate useful content:

• LSL Guides

• TLS Collected Wisdom

Reading Lists

• What Should I Read This Summer? (Reddit)

• A Guide to 1L Supplements: The Key to 1L Success (TLS)

• Top 0L/1L General Prep Books (TLS)

• C/O '21's Favorite Legal Podcasts (Reddit)

1L Tools

• On Self-Care in the First Year of Law School (TLS)

• Talon's Guide to Success in Your First Year of Law School (TLS, Probably the most famous and well-regarded guide on that site)

• Success in Law School - A Unique Perspective (TLS, extreme but probably the most thorough guide available)

• 1L Soup to Nuts: A Guide to 1L Success (TLS, covers some nuts and bolts that other guides don't: note-taking, a day-to-day schedule, a timeline to follow during the semester)

• Quiver's Guide to 1L Success (LSL)

• Arrow's Guide to 1L Success (TLS)

• The r/LawSchool Guide to Acing 1L (Reddit)

• One approach to 1L success from someone ranked #1 (TLS, a little gunner IMO)

• How to learn how to do well on a law school exam (LSL)

• Thoughts on outlining for 1Ls - (Reddit, some great advice about how to start the outlining process and the kinds of outlines you should make)

• T22’s (Lazy-ish) Guide to #1 at a TT (LSL)

• Exam tips for stressed out 1Ls (and others) (Reddit)

Notes, Outlines, and Subject Matter Guides

• LSL Outline Bank

• /r/LawSchooloutlines (This subreddit is private, so you'll need to make a Reddit account and message the mods with your law school email address to gain access

• r/hypobank (Same deal as the outlines subreddit)

• u/justcallmetarzan's Collected OC (Reddit, includes Barbri-keyed outlines, course-specific guides, and concept explanations)

• u/tarheellaw's "Weary 1L" flowchart dump (Reddit, incredibly thorough, includes flow charts for 2L and 3L courses as well.)

1L Summer

• The 1L Job Hunt: A Guide For 0Ls (TLS, keep in mind that this was written in 2010, right at the end of the Great Recession)

• Unlocking 1L SAs (LSL)

• Researching Firms: A NALP and Chambers and Partners How-to (LSL)

OCI/2L Summer

• BrainsyK's Guide to Pre-OCI (LSL)

• Networking to Success: A (Long) Guide for Students & 0Ls (TLS)

• OCI Advice for marginal candidates at T14s (TLS)

• Guide - 2L Summer Job Hunt Timeline (TLS)

• A Guide to the Mechanics of OCI, callbacks, etc. (TLS)

• Guide - Mass Mailing (TLS)

• Matthies' Guide to Networking, part 1 (TLS)

• Matthies' Guide to Networking, part 2 (TLS)

• MT Cicero's Guide: From T14 to Small Regional Market (LSL)

• Quiver's Guide to Federal Clerkships (LSL)

Miscellaneous

• Public Defender Gunner Guide 0L through 3L (LSL)

• 10 Years as AUSA - AMA (LSL)

• Advice for Transferring to Another Law School (LSL)

• Vault Law Editor AMA (Reddit)

• BigLaw/Patent Litigation AMA (Reddit)

• What's Your Typical Day? (TLS)

• Typical Day in the Life of a Lawyer (LSL)

• How to write well in a clerkship (Reddit, the advice is in a comment)

[Hstrat]

This is a lightly curated version of the post I made in r/lawschool, currently stickied at the top of that sub. Please let me know if I've posted this in the wrong spot, I'd be happy to move it.

[Platopus]

Thank you so much! This is excellent.

Any chance we can get this stickied?

[UVA2B]

Thank you so much! This is excellent.

Any chance we can get this stickied?

Agreed, and done.

I may move it to another subforum at some point, but I have to think about that more.

[chandhi]

not sure if we also have a reading list somewhere but i want to add How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School as a book recommendation.

Combining her own observations and experiences with the results of her study and the latest sociological research on law schools, Young offers a very different take from previous books about law school survival. Instead of assuming her readers should all aspire to law-review-and-big-firm notions of success, Young teaches students how to approach law school on their own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether. Young provides readers with practical tools for finding focus, happiness, and a sense of purpose while facing the seemingly endless onslaught of problems law school presents daily.