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First year orientation was completed today here at Lewis & Clark Law School. Many tips for a successful first year were shared, both formally and informally.

Here are sources for a few other tips and hard-learned lessons that might come in helpful the next few days, weeks and months:

• Advice For New Law Students: Web Roundup
  Links to advice from law professors and students, in both blog posts and podcasts. Courtesy of…
• CALI’s Pre-Law Blog
  All sorts of tips for new law students such as: purchasing a casebook, advice for the older law student, etc. Also check out CALI Radio, containing faculty advice for 1Ls. Find out more about CALI at L&C Law.
• How to Read a Judicial Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students (pdf)
  By Orin Kerr of George Washington University Law School, this article helps explain the structure of judicial opinions, provides tips for reading and briefing them, and talks about why law schools use the case method.
• Shelley’s Helpful Tips for the First Semester of Law School
  L&C Law’s own alum, Shelley Chrystal Mactyre, jumps in with this helpful list (included not just because of tip number 8…).
• Law School Terminology
  A quite useful little glossary of all those terms you will soon be hearing quite a bit. Just skip those Minnesota-specific entries. We’ll add in some for clouds, lattes and micros in our own version later. Courtesy of the good librarians at the Hamline University School of Law Library.
• Advice For the Law School Class of ‘09: Ten Key Principles That Will Help You Succeed
  Top 10 List from Professor Vikram David Amar of UC Hastings College of Law. We believe just as valid for our entering evening Class of ‘10.
• Advice for the Incoming Law School Class of 2009
  Another excellent collection of advice from law professors for starting, and surviving, the first year of law school. Collected by master blogger and tax professor Paul Caron of the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Lest you 2Ls feel neglected, please enjoy Advice for Rising 2L’s, from the excellent 3L Epiphany.

Finally, don’t forget two of our local favorites: (1) please feel free to rely on your local law librarian for help, a good ear, and where to find a good bike, microbrew, or park; and (2) be sure to take time for yourself and your family.

Sources: Eminent Domain, Law Dawg Blawg, Material Information at Hamline, ProfessorBainbridge.com