Having elected to write this article at the beginning of the semester, it’s almost as though I subconsciously decided to use myself as a guinea pig to see just how bad things could get if I neglected myself in the name of law school.

Spoiler alert: I ended up in hospital. Twice. Once in emergency, and now for long term recovery care.

Yep, law school can be a dangerous place!

Balancing the competing demands of law and life can be incredibly difficult, especially around exam time.  Time management will mean something different for everyone, but here are a few different strategies to help you fit everything in and still have time for sleeping and a social life...

With the end finally in sight, it seems strange that staying motivated in your final lap of the law school race would be difficult. This should be a happy and exciting time, right? 

But apprehension about the future, the uncertainty of what you want to do with your degree and the pressing question of whether you can even find a job in your preferred area makes staying in law school and never graduating seem like a plausible career option in itself.

If you’ll soon be leaving the hallowed halls of law school, there are a few things you can do to ensure that your final year is a proper send off and that you are at least a little more prepared for the big bad world.

I’m terrible at remembering names, and I’m even worse when it comes to numbers – and a closed book exam means memorising lots of case names and sections of legislation. Like most law students, I tend to panic when I heard the words “closed book exam,” but here are some tips for making the process easier…

Martha Costello QC from Silk is a member of a profession that is defined by the adversarial system. Her primary allegiance is to the law as it directs her to the principles of partisanship. Although you may not always agree with the way she runs her cases, Martha prompts us to consider our own legal ethics and the way we would approach similar matters…

Hey law kids! I have some fantastic news for you! There comes a time in your degree when you do actually get to choose some subjects! I know this might be shocking because most of your degree is in the hands of that Priestley fellow, whoever he is, but I promise that there is more to law than those 11 subjects that eat away at our brains for the first couple of years at law school.