This Is How We [Are Gonna] Do It. - A Little Something For Everyone.

This blog is for everyone. If you are a first-year student, there will be something here for you. Your first set of finals are coming up. We want to talk about outlines, study habits, active and passive studying, legal analysis and how to write exams. If you are a second-year student, I will bring information that interests you to this blog. We want to discuss bringing up the grade point average to "that number" (yep, that one) that suits you before that number seems too difficult to obtain. As 2Ls, we are seeking that summer job that we hope will pan into a full-time offer of employment. You want to know where to go to find that job, and if you are trying to decide whether you plan to stay in the area or if you want to be a transplant to another city or state. If you are a third or fourth year student trying to stretch-out and move beyond law school, I have something to offer you as well. I know. I know. I will talk about the bar examination. I know that it is on your mind. And you want to vie for clerkships, too. And "the" firm that interests you is holding a meet and greet session on the evening that you have a paper due. And you are trying to determine do I attend one or both, and if so, how do I do it and maximize my chances of making a good impression with the firm, but also handing in a quality paper. Trust me on one Mr. or Ms. 3L, "I know why the caged bird sings." I am going to handle that for you, too.

Administrators - professors - academic support specialists - bar exam prep people. You are invited to work through the year with us also. If you are an administrator, a professor, or an academic support specialist, I will throw in some support for you, too. Believe it or not, I am aware that "the Dean" of a law school desires a little love, too. Please keep your eyes open for the Dean's corner & learn from our students tidbits to take back to share with your "committees." I hope that even graduates of CLEO can come on board, read a little and perhaps, learn a lot.

At the end of the day, all future and prospective attorneys have their eyes open for that one thing (other than a win in court)that makes us really show our teeth & smile ... gainful employment. With all due respect to employers, I hope that I can share some information with you about students in general. Just maybe we can get the various hiring committees to look at a new idea for the workplace. Maybe the employer can look at things from "the applicant's interests." Just, once in a while. Maybe?

So why don't you follow me down this dark, dank, dusty, due process looking hallway, as we edge our way into the last day of October and let us get started.

I will blog at least once a week. I will blog at least twice a week. I will blog at least three times a week. Or, I will blog four times a week. These are not trick statements. I will blog based on the posts that I must deliver to each "1L, 2L, 3L, or 4L" class. Then any additional blogging will come from you. Yes, you. Stop looking at me. You. What you say. What you need. What you want. From me.

The One-L. I will write the 1L class first. These students are new to the game. Everyone else is an "old hat." Newbies (no, not babies) should receive just a little more tender loving care than those who are upperclassmen. You will know that I am addressing the first year class because I will tell you so. You won't be confused, there won't be any misunderstanding and you won't have to scratch your head. You will know that I am addressing your class. After I address the 1L class, I will move to the 2L class.

The Two-L. The 2L class is as special as the first and the third year students, but I am aware that they don't always think that they are as special as the class below them or the class above them. Don't get faked out. As it stands, the 2L may actually be the bread and butter, the glue, the "icing" on the proverbial law school cake. They just don't know it yet. They sometimes forget that they have to change gears and take huge leadership roles as they course through to the third year. AND, they are expected to act as a bridge into law school for the first year class. The 2L softens the blow to law school for first year students. The 2L takes a blow as it moves into a leadership role for the third year. Dual roles - maybe that is what they are named, "2Ls."

The Three-L. Finally, I will write to the mighty, mighty 3L's. These are the students, who like sprinters in a race, have their law school's reputation in their hands and are dashing out to the world of lawyering, saying, "look what my law school produced." These are those students who plan to get out of law school in May 2011, and take the July 2011 bar exam. These are the folk who plan to shake up things in the world beginning in the Fall 2011.