How Being a Lawyer Affects Your Personal Relationships

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Law school truly separated my life. There's who I was before, and who I am now. When people say it changes the way you think, they aren't lying. It changes you right to your core. However, what isn't often said is how said new way of thinking is going to impact your personal life. We know that the professional training we get at law school prepares us to advocate for our clients. But what does it mean for our family, friends, and significant others? Since becoming an attorney, I've definitely noticed a difference in the way I interact with and am treated by people outside work. If you're in law school, or planning to go to law school, here are some ways you can expect it to affect your personal relationships.

What You Should Know About The First Amendment: Freedom of Speech

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3 Things I've learned in Law School besides the Law

I'm on the tail end of my third year in law school. It's funny, when I first started, I often pictured my future self at this point, predicting that I would think, "Wow! Only one year left! How time flies!" Now that the future has indeed become the present, what I actually find myself thinking is "Wow! I can't believe I have to do another whole year of this. Will I ever be done?" The notion that fantasy is often a thousand times better than reality often proves true. Another unexpected phenomenon has been the difference in my past and present self. I'm not the same person I was three years ago. Obviously, I now know a lot more about the law than I did when I started, but that is not what I refer to in this article. Law school has changed me in many ways having little to do with the law. Nevertheless, I would argue that these lessons I refer to are equally as important in molding decent attorneys as knowing the law.  I would even venture further to say that these lessons mold decent people in general.

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10 Professors You Will Have in Law School

What would law school be without professors? Before I started, I imagined they would all be like the ones on TV and in the movie Legally Blonde. I was wrong. (sort of) Law school professors are as diverse as the students. Here is a basic guide in case you're thinking of going to law school, and if you've already been, it's a trip down memory lane.

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1)The Benevolent: This is the professor for whose class students will fight to the death for a seat.  She is never in a bad mood. She will never call on you to brief a case. She will genuinely appreciate every student's individuality. She's serious about teaching you the course material, but not too uptight to make the lectures interesting by sprinkling them with occasional drug references from the 70's or Prime-time-TV-approved swear words. Her exam will be the most straight-forward and fair of any other you encounter in law school, and she smells nice too. Stick with this one as much as you possibly can. They don't make them like her anymore.

"You've always had the power to pass the bar. You just have to learn it for yourself.."

12 People You Meet in Every Law School Class

The following is a list of certain people who can be found in every law school class. I don't know where you go to law school, but if you do, or ever have, I guarantee that you know or knew these people. You might even be one of these people. If you are planning to go to law school, you'd best get ready for these people.

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7 Things No One Tells You About Going To Law School

***This is a co-authored piece by one of my classmates, Chad Boykin, and I. Read more about Chad here.  My writing will appear in plain text, and his writing will appear in bold. ***

As most of you know, in addition to my job as a paralegal, I am a full-time law student in the evening program at the North Carolina Central University School of Law. I haven't really talked about school much on the blog, since it doesn't have to do much with fashion, but since I am taking the blog in more of a "lifestyle" direction this year, it only seems natural that I would devote some of my writing to my experiences as a law student. My first law-school post is dedicated to things no one ever tells you about going to law school, but should: