[blindLaw] Starting Law School Tips and Advice

[Aser Tolentino]

I’d have started outlining way earlier so I could spend more time
memorizing the outline or doing whatever prep with the outline already
committed to memory. I did more bullet points than actual briefing or
highlighting. I graduated fifteen years ago, so back then K1000 was still
in active development. Having the book saved to KES format was handy
because moving through the book was super fast with that interface and I
did assigned reading with a preliminary skim as fast as I could get through
the material. That way I got a quick high-level view of what we were
covering and could decide on what to take away from the cases. Case books,
the good ones at least, trim the opinions down to just the points that are
relevant to the author’s intended teaching objectives.
My biggest point of advice has nothing to do with tech, but more on the
whole experience. Get to know your classmates. Make friends and develop
support structures: if you’re lucky, those will be the same people.

On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM Nate Appledorn via BlindLaw <
blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Greetings all,
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> I will be starting law school this fall and was wondering if you had to do
> it all over again, what would you do differently? I was thinking in regards
> to accommodations or what software or services you found helpful or would
> have found helpful.
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> I was also curious as to what alternatives you have found useful instead of
> rainbow briefing or writing a case brief for every case in the text.
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> If anyone has an accessible copy of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
> and Evidence they would be willing to share, I would greatly appreciate it.
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> All the best,
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> Nate Appledorn CP
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