Law School final exams are around the next corner.  If you are a law student – or you know a law student you want to do a favor, this is the book to buy or give as a gift.

Why? Because the GPA you attain in that critical first semester is remarkably important with respect to the opportunities that lie ahead. A poor showing in the fall semester will take five more semesters to overcome; and irrevocably cuts off your chance to finish near the top of the class.  And most of law school’s first semester grades depend on the scores on these upcoming exams.

That’s looking at the law school experience from the “grading” or “class rank” point of view; a very important consideration.

But look at this this way: each day of law school ought to be devoted to becoming the kind of lawyer you would hire if your personal freedom were at risk … if you were accused of a felony you did not commit; if you were facing a corporate meltdown that could be avoided; or if your child were in legal trouble.

The sooner you realize that the day you graduated from your undergraduate institution was your last day of school, the better you will do in law school.  Don’t be baffled by demands of law school; be prepared to enter the practice of law.