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How many hours/week do you spend on law school?

Post by bconly » Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:15 am

Re: How many hours/week do you spend on law school?

Post by Locke N. Lawded » Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:30 am

bconly wrote: As a curious 0L, I'd like to get an idea of how many hours you all spend in class/studying. Do the majority of you try to treat it like a job (~40 hrs/week), or is it MUCH more than that. Thanks for indulging me; I think this will be interesting. By the way: this is meant to be your typical/average week in the middle of the semester... NOT finals week or reading period.

Post by danidancer » Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:41 am

Post by bconly » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:53 am

Post by Journeybound » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:24 am

Post by Mal » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:51 am

Locke N. Lawded wrote: You will find that you spend significantly more time studying during the early weeks of your first semester, and less as time goes on. A lot of people average about 4 hours per subject per day, simply because the reading is so dense and you aren't really sure what you're looking for or what many of the terms mean until you've been at it for awhile. By the end of the first semester, you will probably need only half as long, but by then your legal writing assignments will be monopolizing much more of your time. Many of my classmates treated law school like a job, and then some of us were super gunners. This is not representative of the bulk of the class, but my study group met every day at 7 AM (before our 9 AM classes...our section had them all week long), we'd have two classes per day, and three on the day we had legal writing. We'd usually be done with classes by 3 PM, with breaks between when we'd try to get ahead on our reading, and I often stayed at the library until 8 or 9 PM...and that was fairly common for 1Ls. The first semester will be an exercise in time management as you try to keep up with all your reading, outlining, and writing. Lots of students skip classes on the days when big writing assignments are due and then they have to play catch up. The worst thing to do first year is to get too far behind in the reading, because it is very difficult to make it up without sacrificing many nights and weekends. You will ultimately fall into a routine and the work will come more naturally, but the first month is definitely the worst.

Post by mallard » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:52 am

Post by yo! » Sun Jun 06, 2010 3:39 am

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Post by honestabe84 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:16 am

Post by solidsnake » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:18 am

Post by bconly » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:39 am

honestabe84 wrote: OP: I think some by be a little confused by your poll. Are you asking how much people spend studying or are you asking how much people spend studying AND going to class?

Post by shepdawg » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:13 pm

Post by GermX » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:30 pm

Post by sundevil77 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:44 pm

Journeybound wrote: Yes, I really studied over 12 hours a day.

Locke N. Lawded wrote: A lot of people average about 4 hours per subject per day, simply because the reading is so dense and you aren't really sure what you're looking for or what many of the terms mean until you've been at it for awhile. My study group met every day at 7 AM (before our 9 AM classes...our section had them all week long), we'd have two classes per day, and three on the day we had legal writing. We'd usually be done with classes by 3 PM, with breaks between when we'd try to get ahead on our reading, and I often stayed at the library until 8 or 9 PM...and that was fairly common for 1Ls.

Post by Tangerine Gleam » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:46 pm

Post by 06072010 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:49 pm

Post by luchy204 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:01 pm

Post by sundevil77 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:20 pm

Post by slider » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:44 pm

luchy204 wrote: I think some of the people that have replied to this are insane. 2 hours per day per class is a very good assessment. Then of course the workload increases with an LRW assignment.

Post by Paichka » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:49 pm

Post by GermX » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:52 pm

I think some of the people that have replied to this are insane. 2 hours per day per class is a very good assessment. Then of course the workload increases with an LRW assignment.

Post by D-ROCCA » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:53 pm

slider wrote: luchy204 wrote: I think some of the people that have replied to this are insane. 2 hours per day per class is a very good assessment. Then of course the workload increases with an LRW assignment.

Post by luchy204 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:55 pm

Post by luchy204 » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:56 pm

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