If you’re a law student or a person preparing for the bar exam, this blog is for you.
This is my website for writing up the content of workshops I provide as part of my work as a law school academic success professor. I also write down some of the common conversations I have with students so that others can know they aren’t alone in specific concerns or issues that show up while doing the law school and bar exam thing. In 2023, I trust you have experience navigating a blog and discovering the content it holds. Please look around and see if there is something you need to read today. ~ Chelsea
Latest Posts
- For the bar takers – making up rulesHow to “make up” a rule on the bar exam. As a threshold matter, making up law in real practice… Read more: For the bar takers – making up rules
- Outlining basics for 1st semester law students
This post offers 5 maxims to help first semester JD students begin their outlines. - Using practice problems to learn law – differences between novices and experts
In this post, Professor Baldwin shares her observations about how students in different stages of expertise development use practice problems to aid learning law. - Rule statements in informal legal writing, part 1
In part 1 of “Rule statement in informal legal writing,” Professor Baldwin articulates the attributes that distinguish rule statements from other sentences in written legal analysis and discusses the first two attributes in some depth. - CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents
Modern word processing software makes it incredibly easy to generate a table of contents for documents. However, that feature is… Read more: CB’s Tech Tips: Generating a Table of Contents - Framing legal issues in informal legal writing
This post delineates the differences in issue-framing for formal and informal legal writing and provides examples of the three classic strategies to frame issues in the time pressures of law school exams. - “One weird trick” to improve retention
Cue the puzzled looks. “Adding an activity to the beginning of my reading can help me read faster?” - Time Management meet project management (i.e., Legal Writing assignments)
This post offers an example of how to break a big project (the closed memo) into a bunch of tasks that can be sprinkled throughout one’s schedule to ensure timely completion. - CB’s Tech Tips: Word Processing Styles
This post walks through applying “styles” in Microsoft Word. Using styles helps increase efficiency in formatting documents, generates click navigation within a document, and unlocks the table of contents generator tool. - Time management: How do I get it all done?
In this post, Professor Baldwin shares an agenda template to help students incorporate review into daily study activities. - 7 Tips for the first semester of law school
Professor Baldwin shares the 7 tips for first semester with students at orientation. Here they are for you. - Tips for the first week of law school
Here are the tips for the first week of school I shared with my 1Ls at orientation earlier in the week.