1L Classes
This class starts with foxes and ends with mortgages.
What is Property?
This organization helps with job hunting and assigns you a specific advisor.
What is the Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD)?
These two people are available for any and all conversations about being at/adjusting to law school. They each have 2 sections of students.
Who are Odetta Clark and Jack Townshead?
These people are students who hold regular meetings to review the previous week's class material.
Who are you Dean's Fellows? (/What are Dean's Fellows sessions?)
Duty - Breach - Causation - Damages are all the "steps" to keep in mind for this class.
What is Torts?
This job fair is a great opportunity to begin interviewing/digging into public interest opportunities early on.
What is Equal Justice Works (EJW)?
You have a membership to this place that is generally open 6am - midnight and has daily classes that are included in the membership.
What is the Herbert Wellness Center (on campus gym)?
These are documents that you (should) make yourself to study for school. There are plenty of hand-me-downs to be found through mentors/HOPE as well.
What is an Outline?
This class tends to be confusing until it the end of the semester, when every aspect gets tied together.
What is Contracts?
This organization has a $5K summer scholarship opportunity for public interest work.
What is HOPE? :)
This online database is a great research tool that also, if set up properly, earns you rewards for doing research, the points of which can be turned into giftcards.
What is LexisNexus?
This book may become your emotional support book near the LCOMM paper/brief deadline.
What is the Bluebook?
This class breaks you into smaller sections and includes a grammar test.
What is Legal Research & Communications? (LCOMM)
This government organization has a summer law intern program and a post-graduate honors program.
What is the Department of Justice (DOJ)?
What are clubs/societies?
These people will help answer citation and research questions and can be used for LCOMM I and LCOMM II research assistance.
Who are the Law Library librarians?
Originally from UChicago Law, this class is a staple question-causing class that no one at UM can tell you what it is about.
What is Elements?
This newsletter has weekly updates and opportunities for public interest oppportunities.
What is the HOPE newsletter?
These people are similar in age but with slightly more law school experience and are here for school/life/anything advice.
Your HOPE mentor/buddy family!!!
This study area open only to law students is not actually in the law school but rather is part of UM's main campus.
What is the law lounge?