Everything in Life I Learned from TV
2L year is well underway and all I want to do is watch TV. If you’re like me and have a poor ratio of motivation to workload, you might justify...
1Ls: Here’s Some More Unsolicited Advice
Welcome 1Ls! As I’m sure the Dean and your professors have told you many times, congratulations and best wishes for a stimulating, challenging, and transformative year. With many apologies for...
The Most Effective Class at HLS
The most important skill to learn during 1L year is how to argue both sides of an issue. It is the foundation of successfully analyzing a client’s legal position in...
Professional Ethics
What does it mean to behave ethically as a lawyer? A few weeks ago, I attended an event sponsored by the new Harvard Law School “Living Well in the Law”...
Transparency, Big and Small
The first semester of law school is supposed to be the hardest. Students are thrown in to sink or swim, though no one knows until late January if they’re actually...
We Can Handle the Truth (About Grades)
We live submerged in information. Even when we don’t know it, we know how to get it. Anything is a Google search away. Arguments over facts still happen, but at...