Author: Chelsea Baldwin

  • 7 Tips for the first semester of law school

    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

    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.

  • Professor Baldwin’s Guide to Briefing Cases

    Case-briefing is a specialized form of note-taking for law students and lawyers. There is no ONE correct way to brief a case (aka a judicial opinion or legal opinion), and as mentioned in the previous post, “Reading strategies for law students” some people are able to do the work needed entirely in their heads. But,…

  • Reading strategies for law students

    The long and short of it is that many people beginning law school don’t have existing strategies to teach themselves something from written sources. And that’s okay, because that is a skill that can be learned and practiced and developed fairly easily in the grand scheme of all things law school. This post is intended…

  • 1L Memory Lane: Reading starts with the first word, right?

    During the 2006-07 school year, I was sitting in my legal research and writing class and my professor asks the class, “Where do you begin reading a [nonfiction] book when you want to learn something?” We students exchanged looks. We’d been in law school long enough to recognize a trick question, but many of us…