Making a successful career needs planning, ability and measure of a good fortune. In a legal world we can help prepare our own luck by obtaining and sharpen the abilities and working effectively towards our goals.
Career prospects
Law is a well esteemed degree but their graduate scenarios are not as good as universities like to build. Law firms and chambers have been decreasing number of training contracts and pupils, with some firms calling off their next trainee intake. In addition, a law degree doesn’t assurance riches. There is a severe difference between high earnings people think lawyers are paid and what they are really paid.
There's so much reading
There will be a lot of reading. Be prepared to study long and hard hours as law student. There are long chapters to learn.
Law school is intense
In the law school, you are always challenging against the fellow students for best grades. Some law schools mark using bell curve, so that the grades directly depend on how rest of year carried out. Some students become particularly defensive and do everything they can merely for personal gain at expense of others. This is rare, but law school can be bit like being on "The Apprentice" competing against others in high pressure environment with backstabbing and drama
Everyone will try to pledge free legal advice from you
For some basis, people believe that law students are teeming fountains of legal knowledge to be tested at force. This is simply not a case. The legal details of internet libel law.
Life revolves around your next tutorial or seminar
To begin with, you will have lectures. Then you will be allotted reading to do, and replies to create for tutorials and seminars. Make use of tutorials as interrogation sessions to emphasize the deficiencies in knowledge and understanding of a law. Motivation for those tutorials was keeping away from an anger of a tutor. In retrospection this method of teaching obviously worked. Smaller group teaching meeting are main opportunities to test the understanding and provide structure to the learning. More effort you put into them, the more you will gain knowledge of.
Work hard, work smart, be organised
The load of work becomes easier if you are well planned and focus on working efficiently. Planning further on early and prioritising work over play avoids dismay all-nighters. When reading, one must concentrate on an end goal: learning law in order to relate it correctly in exam. Shortcuts in reading might be made too: having the idea of facts of case and legal principle mean that case report may be read much more rapidly with more focus on main points. This is not something that is taught.
Law books cost a fortune
Being shell-shocked at having spent high price on "essential textbooks" in first year of university
Did I really select a right degree?
At some point in their degrees, when inspiration levels are low, and lots of cases to read high, law students will enquiry their option. A law degree will extend you to the limits and test the commitment. Several students have dropped out of law degrees unable to cope with intensity. Do not make a decision over choice of degree lightly. Law degree is very costly investment. In actual fact, some may be better off selecting the degree they enjoy at university in which they can increase better honours and then make decision whether to commit to law and do GDL.
Jump from A-Levels to law school
Manage well with the law degree, having executed well at school. There is a good reason why a entry levels are so high at the top university law departments. At first many was very upset at aggressive to get passing marks in work, as contrasting to over at A-Level. This is comparatively normal. Process of learning and understanding is different and takes some getting used to.