[blindlaw] bulk scanners

[McCarthy, Jim]

I think I would throw my hat in with Carrie.  Do work that relates to
legal practice.  Assistance to a protection and advocacy agency might
also be good especially if disability law is of interest to you.
Jim   McCarthy

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I agree with Rob.  Substantive study is probably not that useful for law
school success, unless you are doing some sort of law school preparation
program that is teaching you how to study and read for law school.  Most
first year law school classes have very little to do with the practice
of law, and have more to do with teaching you to think and study the way
your school wants to do. My opinion I that the best thing you can do to
prepare you for lawyering (assuming you want to practice law after law
school) is to get as much legal experience as possible.  Find somewhere
to volunteer and jump in, be it helping with intakes at a local women's
shelter, or answering phones for a busy firm.  Whatever you can do to
gain experience, network, and learn more about how you will manage
accommodations for yourself is far more valuable than any reading you do
for core classes.  

Carrie Ann Lucas
Attorney/Equal Justice Works Fellow
Center for Rights of Parents with Disabilities Colorado Cross-Disability
Coalition
655 Broadway, Suite 775
Denver, CO 80203
303.839.1775 (voice
303.839.0015 (TTY and CapTel)
303.839.1782 (facsimile)
800.817.1435 (voice)
877.267.1621(TTY and CapTel)
www.ccdconline.org 
 

-----Original Message-----
Tie, I would respectfully disagree with Tim on this point. I do not
believe that at this time you need to be worried about reading prep
materials in order to get ahead for when you actually start law school.
Each professor, each school has its own take on the substantive law, and
they will teach you when you arrive at Law School. More importantly, the
materials will not make much sense to you anyway in a legal sense
because you won't know what to look for when reading and how to put it
all together. The best I can advise if you want to get ahead, however,
would be to read about the U.S court systems, the Supreme Court,
government, philosophy texts, etc. Knowing these types of information
will certainly place you a head of your peers, in my opinion.

 I would definitely stay away from reading substantive Law, unless this
is what drives your interest for leisure readings. One thing I did that
was helpful before I started Law School was reading Latin legal
terminologies, and it saved me a lot of time from having to consult a
legal dictionary every time I encountered a term in a reading.

Another thing you can do that will help you would be to start getting
use to reading very dense, lengthy texts with attention to details
because that's exactly what you will be doing when you are actually in
Law School.

Take care.

Rod Alcidonis
 Juris Doctor Candidate, 2009.


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