FIU Law Students
First-year grades are important -- very important. Your 1L grades at Florida International University College of Law will not only determine your eligibility for law review and other honors, but will dictate what job opportunities are available when you graduate. This is because the most selective legal employers recruit law students at the beginning of their second year, and they often will only interview law students who finished at the top of their 1L class. Given the staggering cost of a legal education, and a highly competitive legal hiring market, adopting a trial-and-error approach as a 1L is a flawed strategy. Learn why preparing for the challenges you will face during your first year of law school can help protect the substantial investment you are about to make in your legal education.
More than 99% of our surveyed customers have said Law Preview met or exceeded their expectations:
Law Preview helped me prepare for the intense workload and challenges that I was going to face by giving it to me straight. The program's name is an appropriate description of what they do - they give you an accurate preview of what life as a 1L is going to be like. Their candor gave me an edge to the other incoming students who were floored by the mass expectations poured upon them. As many others can tell you, your first year is part academic challenges and part psychological challenges. Granted there are individual experiences they cannot prepare you for, but they tell you what to expect in a practical way which you cannot get from reading One L by Scott Turow. The professors that come teach are extremely nice, and help prepare you to engage in dialogue and not be afraid of the material or of trying to understanding and failing from time to time. The key to succeeding in law school is accepting that it is normal to feel confused, but to practice tenacity, and lots of it. Never give up. A support group like Law Preview sending you encouraging e-mails throughout the semester doesn't hurt either. At the end of the first year, I proudly boast a 3.37 GPA and have achieved a phenomenal rank. While I cannot downplay the importance of individual determination, I also cannot downplay the advantage I received by attending Law Preview.
Law Preview gave me a good grasp on the different fields of law studied during the first year of law school. It also introduced me to famous cases and how to brief them, which gave me a monumental step up over my colleagues. [Ranked 10 out of 160].
