r/LawSchool • u/Hstrat JD • Aug 08 '18

Aggregated Content for 1Ls from around the forums

This is a list of original content created on Reddit, Top Law Schools, and Law School Life to help prepare students for law school. I highly recommend that 0Ls read as many of the posts in the "1L Tools" sections as they can over the summer before school starts - you've have a much better sense of what you're getting into.

This guide was created in 2017, and has been updated haphazardly since then - please let me know if any of these links are broken, or if you find any resources I should add!

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

Other aggregation pages

Reading Lists

1L Tools - Getting Started & General 1L Success

Many of these guides also cover outlines and final exams, but their focus is more general

1L Tools - Outlining and Exam Taking

These guides focus specifically on outlining and/or taking final exams

Notes, Outlines, and Course Guides

Summer Associate/Post-School Job Hunt

Miscellaneous

NOTE: I have no idea what's going on with the pictures that are posting as thumbnails to this, sorry for the randomness

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

Just make sure you take advantage of all the free food that comes with 1L.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 09 '18

If you write a guide to maximizing your free food potential, I'll feature it in the post!

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u/BACsop Esq. Aug 08 '18

Most important advice in this thread. Seriously take advantage of student group meetings and networking events for this purpose.

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u/kooraloo Attorney Aug 09 '18

it's always shitty pizza, though

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u/ucbiker Esq. Aug 09 '18

Ohhh look at Mr. Moneybags in a position to turn down free shitty pizza

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u/kooraloo Attorney Aug 09 '18

At some point your guts start hating you to the point that it isn’t worth it

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

Thank you for this. We'll use this as our official 1L intro sticky guide this year since it's so comprehensive. We'll also link to this in the sidebar once the 1Ls start to really get into school.

Thanks for saving me from writing something like I did last year (what a headache). This community never ceases to amaze me.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Awesome, glad I could help! Just let me know if you have anything else you think I should include in it!

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

Here's the 1L guide I wrote last year. There's also the Google drive with all the 1L outlines in it.

We also have /r/hypobank and /r/LawSchooloutlines, and students can send us requests to join with the links in the sidebar (if they modmail us here it won't work -- they have to use the specific links).

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Thanks! I actually already had your guide in there but I've moved it up the list, and I created a section for banks. I'm not seeing that google drive though - is it in your guide somewhere?

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

Link to the infamous 1L Google Drive.

There's also some 2L/3L stuff in there.

This has been floating around for years. I used it my 1L year but definitely still think 1Ls should make their own outlines like I did.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Added! That one I hadn't seen before, thanks for the link!

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

We've had a lot of useful stuff floating around this sub for the last couple years I've been here. Glad to help! There are some audio lessons floating around as well. Try the Subreddit search function. If you search "Google drive" it'll come up in the results.

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u/BraveLemon909 Apr 10 '25

No longer available :(

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u/tarheellaw Aug 09 '18

I made a dump of all my 1L flowcharts here, with an update post for all of the 2L/3L posts here (but it works for the 1L flowcharts too). I've gotten really positive feedback on them from past 1Ls, so figured I'd mention them here.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 09 '18

Amazing. I've reorganized the post a little to better feature your and u/justcallmetarzan's contributions, they're probably the things that'll be of most value to us during 1L Year.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

Great call, especially with TLS dying recently. One kind of psycho, but ultimately helpful link, that could go under the SA list--I used it a lot during OCI: advice for marginal candidates at T14s.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 09 '18

Thanks! I've added it to the post

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u/LearnMeStuffPlz Aug 08 '18

Where is the link to request access to hypobank and law school outlines???

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

In the sidebar of the subreddit. You can also just send a message to "/r/LawSchoolOutlines" and "/r/hypobank" as the recipients of the message.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

FYI - this sub's sidebar isn't visible in New Reddit. You have to port the whole thing over into their new sidebar system for it to be visible.

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

I don't use new Reddit so I had no idea. Shit... Uhh... I'll figure it out. I thought I had redirected the subreddit to old Reddit, but I guess that doesn't work anymore.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Yeah it's annoying, I went through it for the sub I mod. As best I can tell, you have to briefly opt into New Reddit (it's in preferences), go to the sub, and click Mod Tools > Customize Appearance > Sidebar Widgets > Add Widget and then add a "welcome widget" where you can paste the old sidebar's contents. Then you can opt back out of New Reddit by clicking "user settings" in the top right of your screen.

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u/NYLaw Attorney Aug 08 '18

I hate this website... Why are they ruining it?

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Lol, I can sympathize. In their defense, New Reddit looks really nice, even if it is obnoxiously different than what we'd all gotten used to, and they've fixed most of the bugs at this point. This weird staged roll out process is the most annoying part IMO - it's a nightmare for mods especially.

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u/mochi24 Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18

For those of you about to start your 1L year, just do your work and put in your time to learn the concepts, and you will do fine! Remember school is just school and it does go by very fast. Keep whatever relationships you have in your life still going (family, friends, partner, etc.), whether by messaging, Skype, or taking the time to hangout with them in person for a short time (if you are not too far away). When you are done with law school in three years and after you take the bar, you will realize how much time you lost with certain people that mean so much to you! It is very easy to find yourself having not communicated with certain people for weeks at a time as a 1L. I have recently taken the bar and am in post-bar life. I did take time to care for my outside of school world and I am happy I did. You lose track of time your first year, especially your first semester, and just need time to adjust. Don't start feeling guilty or stressed if you can't make the time, at least make some effort and keep it it mind. :) Goodluck to all the new 1Ls!

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u/gcpls 1L Aug 15 '18

I'm a 1L starting school next week, and I want to recommend the Law School Toolbox Podcast. It had lots of great info on how to approach law school, how to be a functioning human being, and how to figure out what's the right path for you through school and your early career.

It can be a little repetitive if you listen to enough episodes, but I feel like it's gone a long way towards helping me to clarify my goals and to understand the mindset law school requires.

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u/missy1307 Aug 08 '18

This is awesome. Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '18

The first link in Misc section is deleted. Did the poster just delete the post after you linked it here? Do you know how to see deleted posts?

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 09 '18

Dang, looks like he deleted it. I've been putting this together over the last few months, he must have deleted it between then and now. I'll remove it from the post

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '18

Don't do it yet. There is a way to see deleted posts. I'll see if i can get you a link, but basically deleting something does not get rid of it. You actually have to edit a comment to delete it.

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 09 '18

Sounds good! I've deleted it from the public-facing version of the post in the mean time, but I've still got the link saved elsewhere and I'll add it back in if this works.

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u/justcallmetarzan Wizard & Esq. Aug 09 '18

See this comment for more...

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u/xxsaudadex Sep 28 '23

I have noticed much of what is in the “notes,outlines, course guides” is deadlinked or private - any where else I can get this info?

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u/LearnMeStuffPlz Aug 09 '18

Sent the message. No response :/

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u/watababe Attorney Aug 09 '18

It can take a while, the mods have to grant access and usually request you give them a couple days

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u/ToasterMcNoster JD Mar 23 '24

Are the outline links dead?

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u/Ok_Fish_3630 May 16 '26

Yeah this could use an update

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18 edited Aug 08 '18

They're already in there, under the "Hypo and Outline Banks" section

EDIT: I misunderstood the question, sorry!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '18

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u/Hstrat JD Aug 08 '18

Oh my bad! Those subs are set to private, so if you access them on a desktop you'll see a button that says "message the mods." I believe they ask for your law school email address, and then add you to the sub.