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Did any courses prove particularly useful as you started practicing?

In my own experience today as a hiring attorney, the biggest failing I have observed with students and new lawyers whom I've interviewed or hired is an inability to analyze both sides of a problem and summarize the findings in a coherent memo or even persuasive brief. Mastery of legal analysis and writing skills in law school are crucial--both because these tools make you a direct asset to a law firm and also since they're virtually impossible to spend on some time and enhance in practice.

Would you really have to push yourself into the ground the first few years of training to create it?

There are important benefits for placing in a hard day's work, however. You may experience a good deal of pride and a feeling of achievement . As your skills become more refined this sense of professional advancement will increase and flourish. Being in law school you overcome and have run a gauntlet of challenges, so you have a sense of what success feels like. When you are currently representing real clients with real things that have implications that sense will increase. That is why it's known as the "practice" of legislation. Additionally, most of you may be paid for the time commitments you'll need to make, which in the market of today is a relatively handsome amount.

What do you enjoy most about your job? Least?

There aren't many drawbacks, but I could mention a few:

Was there anything you wanted you'd have done otherwise in law school that you didn't realize until you began to practice?

I'm glad I didn't compare my research habits to those of my friends. I have been a solitary studier. I kept up my customs but heard from friends who were in the law school library using a research team from open to close when it came time to study for the bar examination. I wondered in my own 10 a.m.--4 p.m. program at my regional library was about to cause me to fail the bar, so I ventured down to the law library one day. I found that those folks could have been "in the library" daily, but they were definitely not researching all day. I realized the research skills that got me through law school could get me through the bar and returned to my own customs I knew worked for me.