How to Build a Sustainable Routine
Around October, first-year students typically trade in their excitement for dread as they begin to tackle topics like proximate cause, summary judgment, and the parol evidence rule. If you were like me, you may have begun to notice the work piling up and wonder how anyone successfully navigated their first semester. Because I didn’t enter law school with a network of attorneys in my family or immediate circle, I assumed those who excelled possessed a secret roadmap that I did not have access to.
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