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Jonah Perlin

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Nov 10, 2022

Law Students: What if I told you that you could be more successful on *all* your law school exams with a single word?

Seriously!

That word is BECAUSE

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I just finished meeting with my 57 1Ls in advance of their legal practice memo exam and I found myself giving the same advice over and over: tell me why. What LAW? What FACTS?

And one way to force yourself to do that and to tell the reader why is to use the word because.

Without using the word because it is easy to make conclusory arguments (my least favorite law school word). Where you just say the law is met or worse that the law is met because the definition of the law is met but don’t identify the key facts.

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Jonah Perlin

@JonahPerlin

Sep 14, 2022

Lawyers are often asked to give feedback on the writing of others but they are rarely trained how to do it well.

Every year I give written feedback on more than 350 pieces of #LegalWriting.

Here are 5 quick(ish) tips to give better written feedback on legal writing:

1. PURPOSE

Feedback can have many purposes. Sometimes it's to get a doc out the door. Other times it's to make a doc sound like you (supervisor). Other times to "assess" the writer.

Know your purpose!

Most often it is to make the document better but also the writer better.

This is what we call "formative feedback." Teach the person to fish as the cliche goes.

But many supervisors assume everything will be taken as formative feedback because the writer will figure it out.

They won't. Good formative feedback takes effort and a different approach.

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Jonah Perlin

@JonahPerlin

Sep 13, 2022

I have published 59 hours and 14 minutes of interviews with lawyers on #HowILawyer. All available free & asynchronous.

That is a lot!

But finding the right episodes is hard. So here are some playlists for those who want to catch up on specific topics (& follow for the future):

How I Lawyer Litigation Playlist:

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Wj5R…

How I Lawyer Transactional & Regulatory Playlist:

open.spotify.com/playlist/37sVK…

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Jonah Perlin

@JonahPerlin

Jul 30, 2022

⁉️This week many law students start On Campus Interviewing.Every single interview will end with “what questions do you have for me”?

Some of my favorites 🧵👇

0/ But before we start some reminders.
• Questions are part of the interview. You are still being assessed.
• This won’t be your last opportunity to ask questions so be strategic.
• Ask questions that show interest (ask questions that show hesitation post offer)
• YMMV

1/ Good “what questions do you have for me” questions
• Teach you about firm culture
• Show interest in firm
• Demonstrate you’ve done research in advance
• Lets the interviewer talk about their favorite parts of job
• Open up new opportunities for you to talk about yourself

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Jonah Perlin

@JonahPerlin

May 19, 2022

I recently had a #1L student who is about to start a judicial internship ask for some advice on how to get the most out of the experience.

As a former judicial intern, federal law clerk (x2), and now law professor, here are 7 tips:

1. Quality > Quantity. You'll be asked to draft documents for your judge. Even better, you won't be under the same time pressure as clerks. Just remember, you won't be judged by how fast you work or # of cases, but only on the quality of your work. Take the time. Do your best.

2. Be a Team Player. A judge's chambers is a team. That means you need to complete your own tasks, but also chip in wherever possible. Clerk seem stressed? Offer to help research. Deputy setting up the courtroom? Help. No task is too small, and people remember those who help.

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Jonah Perlin

@JonahPerlin

Mar 12, 2022

Many #1L students are off for spring break or will be soon.

This is a challenging time. The novelty of 1L has worn of. You finally know enough to know you don’t know it all. It’s a marathon and you are at mile 16. Exhausted but lots to go.

Thoughts on how to finish strong 👇

1. LOOK FORWARD, NOT BACK. Don’t fixate on what you haven’t done & mistakes you’ve made. The class you missed. The outline you didn’t start. The office hour you didn’t attend. That’s in the past.

Focus instead on what you will do with the the semester you have left!

2. RESET YOUR PROCESS. In law school its more important to be disciplined than good. The best show up every day. But as the semester wears on those routines start slipping. Happens to the best of us. Take stock. Decide what habits are worth it and reengage with them, guilt free.

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