Returning Law Student Project

Many dismissed law students want to appeal the process and be readmitted.

Whether a few months or a few years, students who are seeking readmission are often at a lost as to how to improve their skills. Law schools rarely have the support, information and instruction that dismissed students need to improve their skills so that when readmitted they can maximize their success in law school . Often students are told to work for an attorney as a paralegal but that is only tangential related to actively improving academic performance.

Typically, students who fail have problems with some combination of:

(1) study skills and habits
(2) writing skills
(3) reading skills or
(3) analytical skills including basic logic

While some students have personal issues or testing anxiety, which contribute to their problem, it is our experience that personal issues are rarely the sole explanation of poor performance.

That is where we come in. Our Project has an assessment component and a summer program

Assessment Program

The Returning Law Student Project will assist dismissed students to identify the factors underlying their performance and to improve essential law school skills. We generally conduct assessments in the following areas:

law school exam-writing and analysis
law school study behavior in the last semester
study skills and study habits
reading speed and comprehension including additional screening for dyslexic, where appropriate
learning styles
basic logic skills
grammer and punctuation

Summer Program

Our curriculum is extensive and challenging, and helps students to develop the four skill sets of paramount importance to success as a law student: studying, thinking, reading and writing. At the completion of the summer program, it is expected that students will be able to:

Participants will be able to:

Identify potential personal and academic issues that could have an impact academic performance and develop a plan for addressing them;

Develop an Academic Study Plan to achieve their personal best;

When give a list of terms, define a basic legal vocabulary;

Discuss the important component of an effective academic study plan for law school;

When given a case, use seven strategies for reading like a lawyer.

When given a case, develop a case-brief that has all the appropriate components with appropriate analysis.

Discuss the difference in organizing a problem based on the type of legal standard that the rule uses.

When given a problem, constructs an answer that is organized correctly .

When given a problem, construct an answer that is well reasoned.

In addition, we will assist the student in their reapplication process and, where appropriate and on request, provide a statement that can be used in the student's readmission package.

The JD Project's Returning Law Student Project helps dismissed students prepare to succeed should they be readmitted. Collectively, we, the staff of the JD Project have over 30 years of legal education and academic support experience

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