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00:00
– Hey, Legal Eagles.
00:01
There are a lot of extracurriculars available
00:04
to students in law school.
00:06
But the choices can seem overwhelming.
00:08
They are very different from what you can do in college.
00:12
So what extracurriculars are out there
00:14
and what should you spend your time on in law school?
00:17
Well by the end of this video
00:19
you will have a really good idea
00:20
of which extracurricular is for you.
00:23
What will add to your resume
00:24
and what is a good use of your time in law school.
00:28
So stick around.
00:29
(melodious instrumental music)
00:34
All right, so first and foremost.
00:36
Extracurriculars can be very rewarding in law school
00:39
but generally speaking,
00:40
grades are more important when you’re in law school.
00:43
So while it may be tempting to sign up
00:45
for lots of extracurriculars
00:47
especially during the first week of class.
00:49
As a general rule,
00:50
you never want to sacrifice your grades
00:53
for spending time in extracurricular activities.
00:56
And that goes for even the most prestigious extracurriculars
01:00
like participating on law review.
01:02
It’s almost always better to have good grades
01:05
than it is to participate in lots of extracurriculars.
01:08
So with that being said and without further ado,
01:11
here are the most popular extracurriculars in law school
01:14
and my opinion as to how valuable they are.
01:17
And I should tell you I know what I’m talking about.
01:19
In addition to working in BigLaw for over 10 years,
01:22
I have recruited for big firms,
01:24
I have interviewed many law students for associate jobs
01:28
and I have read more law student resumes
01:30
than I could possibly count.
01:32
So, let’s talk about the most popular
01:35
extracurriculars in law school.
01:37
The first one and the most popular
01:39
and usually the most highly regarded is law review.
01:43
Generally, law schools have one flagship law review.
01:46
A law review is a weird student-run publication
01:51
that publishes papers by professors, professionals
01:54
and other academics.
01:56
While other fields have peer reviewed journals
01:59
that are run by professionals or experts in the field.
02:03
Law schools have these student-run publications
02:07
that do two things.
02:08
They review, curate and proof the academic papers
02:12
mostly of professors and then publish them.
02:15
And Law Reviews will publish the papers
02:18
of students who are on law review
02:21
and those are called notes.
02:22
Sometimes without attribution
02:23
to the individual student who produced it.
02:27
but the law review serves the purpose
02:29
of publishing academic papers.
02:30
They tend to be the most prestigious legal journals
02:33
in the legal field
02:34
and they also publish the papers of students.
02:38
Now if you want to publish in law school
02:40
you should join law review.
02:42
There are, generally, also a lot of other journals
02:45
or law reviews that specialize in different topics.
02:48
But almost always the most prestigious journal
02:52
in a particularly is law school the law review.
02:56
And there are a couple very famous ones,
02:58
the Harvard Law Review comes to mind.
03:00
It’s an incubator for future professors and legal scholars.
03:05
It’s really the top of the field
03:06
when it comes to legal publications.
03:09
And while there are a number
03:11
of different journals and law reviews in law school,
03:14
generally, the main law review is the most prestigious,
03:17
it can be a real resume bump.
03:20
Out of all the things that you can do in law school
03:23
as an extracurricular,
03:24
there is no doubt that participating in the Maine Law Review
03:28
for your law school is by far
03:31
the most prestigious extracurricular that you can do.
03:33
It is a real resume bump
03:35
especially when you get to the top law schools
03:37
where the law review itself
03:39
has an actual reputation in the field.
03:42
But that being said, it is a ton of hard work.
03:45
You are constantly proofing and reviewing different papers,
03:49
only a few of which are going to be published.
03:51
It’s really thankless work.
03:53
It is very persnickety,
03:55
you have to have a real eye for proofing,
03:58
you have to be a very good writer
04:00
and it’s also very difficult to get on to the law review.
04:04
Some law reviews require you to have top grades
04:07
before you can participate
04:08
and other law reviews have a straight merit-based system
04:11
based on writing on to the journal.
04:14
So you show a writing sample and that’s how you get on.
04:17
Other law reviews have a combination of the two
04:20
where some people will grade on
04:21
and some people will write on.
04:24
But once you get on to law review
04:26
you can anticipate that you’re going to spend a lot of time
04:29
doing writing related activities, a lot of proofing
04:32
and a lot of publishing related work.
04:35
So that brings me to the second most popular
04:38
extracurricular in law school and that is moot court.
04:42
Moot court is where students
04:44
pretend to be appellate attorneys.
04:46
Students will write appellate briefs
04:48
and then they will argue that brief
04:50
usually on a very narrow part of the law
04:53
in front of a panel of judges.
04:55
This panel of judges is sometimes real judges
04:57
if the school is able to get the judges to participate.
05:01
But usually some lawyers from the community
05:04
who are judging the students on their ability
05:07
to argue on either the appellate brief
05:10
and/or their oral argument ability in front of them.
05:15
There are a number of different moot courts,
05:17
some specialize in international law or patent law.
05:21
And some are just sort of a general civil
05:24
or criminal appellate jurisdiction
05:26
where they’ll give you a topic that is of wide appeal
05:31
and you’ll argue that particular topic.
05:34
Some moot courts are just for the particular school
05:37
where it’s just amongst students in that school.
05:40
And some are against schools from around the city or state
05:45
where students will be competing against each other.
05:48
In some moot courts you’re graded on the brief
05:50
and some it’s just your oral argument
05:51
and some is a combination of the two.
05:55
Now moot court is certainly a resume bump,
05:59
not as much as law review.
06:00
But if you have moot court,
06:02
especially if you are a successful moot court competitor
06:06
then employers will look favorably on that in your resume.
06:11
Especially if you can show that you are someone
06:14
who was very good at arguing, very good at writing,
06:16
those are the kind of skills
06:17
that future employers want to see.
06:19
So it’s not quite as prestigious as law review
06:21
and it’s not quite as much of a bump in your resume
06:24
but it’s certainly a positive mark
06:27
on your law school resume.
06:28
It’s also a great way to hone your oral argument skills.
06:32
It feels like, there’s a bit of a bait-and-switch
06:34
when you get to law school
06:35
where you think you’re gonna be arguing all the time
06:38
but really you’re just sitting in a lecture hall
06:40
listening to your professor.
06:41
And at most you’re going back and forth
06:44
in the Socratic method
06:45
when he or she peppers you with questions.
06:48
But this is one of the true places
06:49
where you are able to get better at arguing
06:53
and have a chance to compete in that type of competition.
06:58
So that brings me to the third most common
07:00
extracurricular in law school and that is mock trial.
07:04
Don’t get mock trial and moot court confused.
07:07
If moot court is a simulation of appellate advocacy
07:11
then mock trial is a simulation of a real trial
07:16
at the trial court level.
07:18
I did both moot court and mock trial in law school
07:21
and while moot court is a lot of fun and it’s great,
07:24
I thought mock trial was way more fun.
07:27
You get to do all the aspects of a trial.
07:29
You guys to do opening statement,
07:31
examination of witnesses, cross examinations,
07:34
closings, objections.
07:36
It’s like Law & Order but in real life but still fake,
07:41
if that makes sense.
07:43
It’s not dissimilar to mock trial
07:45
in high school or in college
07:47
but it’s operating at a much higher level.
07:51
There are different mock trials and they vary by topic.
07:53
There are civil mock trials,
07:55
there are criminal mock trial competitions,
07:57
there are employment mock trial competitions,
08:00
there are a lot of different formats too.
08:02
In some mock trials you provide your own witnesses,
08:05
in other words their fellow law students
08:07
who are training to be a witness
08:10
and you prep them ahead of time.
08:11
And in some mock trials,
08:14
the competition actually gives you a witness
08:18
that you’ve never met before
08:19
and you only have a couple of minutes to prep them
08:21
before they go on the witness stand.
08:24
So there are a lot of different venues
08:26
that can be a lot of fun to participate in
08:28
because they’re so varied.
08:30
Mock trial is probably less prestigious
08:33
than law review and moot court.
08:36
But I would say that people in the know really understand
08:39
that mock trial is an incubator
08:41
for people who really want to be in court.
08:44
So you can show that you have the skills
08:47
of a real practicing trial attorney
08:49
if you hone them in mock trial.
08:52
So while it’s not quite as much of a resume boost
08:54
as moot court and law review,
08:56
it’s still something that’s worthwhile doing
08:58
if you’re prepared for the time commitment.
09:00
So that brings me to the next extracurricular in law school.
09:04
It is by far the most popular
09:06
and it’s the one that
09:07
almost every law student participates in
09:09
and that is drinking.
09:12
There’s a lot of drinking in law school.
09:14
I’m talking in jest, that is an extracurricular.
09:17
But I am telling you this for two reasons.
09:19
One is that, your social life
09:21
is an important aspect of law school.
09:23
You should go out and you should meet other people
09:26
and have a little fun on occasion.
09:28
And number two is that,
09:30
when people go out to go drinking
09:32
they usually call it bar review.
09:34
And the first time anyone ever hears
09:36
that they’re going to bar review on Thursday night,
09:39
they often make the assumption that it’s a study group,
09:42
it’s not.
09:42
Bar review means going out for drinks.
09:45
Just FYI, you have been warned, it happens.
09:49
And you know, go out once in a while, it’s worthwhile.
09:53
Okay, so back to all seriousness,
09:56
the next extracurricular
09:57
is the various student groups on campus.
10:01
There are a lot of student groups in law school,
10:04
you have human rights groups,
10:06
you have ethnic and cultural groups,
10:09
the Federalist Society, outlaw, Black Law Students.
10:13
There are a lot of social groups and cultural groups that,
10:18
it’s sort of a loose association,
10:19
they try and bring speakers in, they often hold conferences.
10:23
This isn’t that much of a resume boost
10:26
but it’s a great way to network,
10:28
so I wouldn’t discount it entirely.
10:30
It’s also a good way to meet friends
10:32
and other attorneys in the community
10:34
who share similar values to you.
10:37
So you know a part of law school
10:39
that most people overlook is networking.
10:42
And you should spend some time
10:44
getting to know people in the community
10:46
especially if you want to work in that community.
10:48
Because it’s a great way to form
10:50
a social network of your own
10:52
that may come in handy when you’re looking for jobs
10:55
later down the line.
10:57
So after that, I would say the last big extracurricular
11:00
are social committees in law school.
11:02
These are things like participating on law prom,
11:06
putting together the big dance for law students.
11:09
If your school has a law school musical,
11:11
putting together the musical.
11:13
There are also public interest committees
11:15
and various fundraising activities.
11:18
Again like the social organizations
11:20
these are not necessarily a big resume boosters
11:23
but they’re great for networking
11:25
and a great way to spend some time on something
11:28
other than the black letter law in your particular classes
11:32
which you know sometimes we get tunnel vision
11:34
and we focus just on studying
11:37
and not other social aspects of law school.
11:39
So don’t discount the social committees as well.
11:43
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