Adjusting to law school life
	Blawgs
	Courses in the first year
	De-mystifying the tools of legal research
	Exams
	Help for foreign students
	Job-hunting and resume writing
	Stress relief
	Studying & note-taking
	Time, news, and weather
	The UALR law library
	Using computers, e-mail, and word processing

	A Beginner's Guide to Legal Education, by West Virginia law prof James Elkins, a wonderful site full of sensible advice, thoughtful inspiration, and practical guidelines
	Incoming One-L FAQ is full of questions (and answers) that every One-L (first-year student) needs to know.
	"Socratic Method"? What's that? Here's a fair description of one of law school's most widespread teaching methods (from American University's Washington College of Law).

"Blawgs" are blogs devoted to law and legal topics, and they are proliferating faster than bunnies. Here are links to
some of my bookmarked sites (and they'll all have links to others):

	Howard Bashman's How Appealing (all appellate stuff! To get inside a judge's head, read the Twenty Questions feature)
	Al Nye the Lawyer Guy (random thoughts on current legal issues in the news, law tech, and whatever else catches his fancy)
	Ernie the Attorney (says whatever is on his mind, and then some)
	LawLibTech (not what you might think—it covers new developments in law library technology)
	Mootness: The Moot Court Blog (central clearinghouse for all things moot)
	Public Defender Dude (I picture this blogger with cape and superpowers)
	Prawfs Blawg (the secret inner musings of law professors?)
	The Volokh Conspiracy (law prof's musing on all things First Amendment and otherwise constitutional (or not))
	Legal Writing Prof Blog (my personal favorite, but I am biased)

	For RWA, you'll surely find The Law Student's Guide to Good Writing a big help.
	Vexed by venue? Jinxed over jurisdiction? Irked about intervention? Perplexed about pleading? Delirious over diversity? You must be taking a course in Civ Pro. Cornell University provides good generalized and specific-topic overviews of civil procedure.
	Offer and acceptance, promissory estoppel, restitution, damages—we're talking about contracts. Another good overview from Cornell.

Learning the law of (the) land? Here's an overview of real property law from Cornell University.

	What's a tort? It's not a cake unless it hits you in the face. Visit Cornell University's Tort Law: An Overview.
	Nor did Cornell forget about criminal law, a course you'll take in the spring semester.

	The parliamentarian for the U.S. House of Representatives explains how the legislative process works. Understanding this process will improve your ability to research statutes and legislative history.
	Legal Research Using the Internet — Good advice from U of Chicago's law librarian.
	The Virtual Chase: A Research Site for Legal Professionals —wise advice, tech tips, and useful links from law firm librarians.

	new! Outlining, from Suffolk University School of Law
	Tips for exam preparation and old exams on-line, from JURIST
	new! Taking Multiple Choice Exams, from Suffolk--probably more useful after the first year
	Check the exam preparation resources available in the UALR Law Library
	Even better, check these practice exams from UALR Bowen School of Law professors!
	Links to old law school exams from a lot of other schools

Law school is hard, but even harder if English is not your first language. Here are some links that give special help
to those for who are learning American English and U.S. culture at the same time they are learning American law.

	Writing resources for law students using English as a Second Language (ESL).
	Overview of the American legal system (this is actually a good review for everybody)
	Another outline of the U.S. legal system, but with versions in Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, and Persian
	A collection of links to help international students, from the Internet TESL Journal
	EduPass, a web site devoted to providing information for students from other countries who are considering attending college or graduate school in the U.S., including things such as —

            • American social customs and cultural differences
            • Living in the USA   

	Find law firms in the Martindale-Hubbell Directory.
	Take a practice interview online at Monster.com.

An online network for summer jobs -- Summerclerk.com

	Everything about federal law clerk jobs, all in one place
	Good tips on legal resume writing, from the North Dakota School of Law
	And more good tips for resumes from Stetson University School of Law
	new! Advice for creating a writing sample from Suffolk University School of Law

	The dirty little secret of the legal profession--stress toy abuse, revealed in a commercial for Westlaw. (I've got a stress toy in my office if you're feeling bad!)
	Tips for law school stress relief, from Thomson Peterson's legal publishing company.
	In February 2005, the American Bar Association polled law students about their typical ways to handle stress.
	The title is a bit weird, but "Roasting the Seeds of Law School Stress" contains great advice from stress expert & law prof Larry Krieger.
	And there is always "bubble wrap"!

	In case you lost your copy of the Academic Success Manual, here it is.
	Taking notes with your laptop, or just pretending you're attending court reporter school (i.e., transcribing everything)? Here are some good tips for taking better notes in class—whether on paper or electronically.
	Don't you just love those Dummies Guides to everything? Now they have advice for note-taking on computers--for the rest of us.

What day is it or will it be? A very cool online calendar —hit the arrow button to go to next month.

Since you are too busy preparing for class to watch TV for the headlines or the forecast (you are, aren't you?), here's the local news and weather online.

Can you study in the library at 9 p.m.? Probably. Check the days and hours of operation.

Does the library have what you're looking for? Go to THEMIS, the online catalog.

What else can you find online from the library? Explore from the home page.

	Click here for access to UALR's web-based e-mail.
	Rutgers University has a free online tutorial for WordPerfect.
	Learning to use Microsoft Word — another free online tutorial.
	You could ask your kids—but if you don't have any handy, here's a tutorial for finding information on the Internet (from University of California at Berkeley).