The class of had a median LSAT score and a 3. It's worth noting that the Dedman School of Law uses the applicant's highest reported LSAT when it comes to awarding admissions and scholarships.
It doesn't consider multiple LSAT scores. SMU Law School application materials are available year round through their website. Applicants must submit all required materials in order to have their applications reviewed.
SMU Law School has a non-binding early decision program. The school may accept, deny, or hold the early decision applications for further review. The applications held for further review are considered at the same time as regular decision applications. In , the law school ranked 1 st among Texas law schools in placement for permanent, full-time jobs that require bar passage and J. For the class of , Second-year students may also participate in the Write On Competition; their services are considered fulfilled at graduation.
In their second year of service, students serve in various leadership roles as members of the Editorial Board. Service on law review provides invaluable editing experience, broadens your understanding of the law, and improves your research and writing skills.
Former law review members have reported that their time on law review deeply improved their attention to detail and ability to work with long, dense pieces of writing, a crucial skill in legal practice. In addition, law review participants receive three hours of class credit in their first year of participation and two hours in their second year and fulfillment of the General Writing GW graduation requirement.
Some journals also offer scholarships or writing awards for their members. Law review can also provide incredible opportunities in your search for employment. Many top law firms exclusively hire students with law review experience. The application consists of three sections: editing, citations, and writing.
The editing section resembles a cite check; you will be asked to review and edit an actual article according to citation and grammar rules. For the citation section, you will be given excerpts from several sources and asked to create an accurate citation according to Bluebook and Greenbook rules.
For the writing section, you will be given several sources and asked to write a page essay on a given prompt. No additional research is required for the writing section beyond the sources provided. The competition takes place over four days to enable you to participate while also working, traveling, or fulfilling other personal obligations.
Typically the Write On Competition takes place in mid-May, beginning one week after the last day of Spring final exams. The Transfer Competition takes place in late July. You can try typing tests online and seeing what your typing speed is. I took BCME! I do not think it hindered me, just that I did not have a lot of practice writing long reports and essays before coming to law school. This did not feel like a setback though, because being a science student also generally means you know how to directly answer questions simply.
Each subject combination has its own advantages, just make sure you learn what your weaknesses are and then work on it.
Life at SMU law can really differ based on the kind of person you are. There are people who spend every day in the law library, or people who never step foot in it the entire semester. They are also very generous with their notes, which is helpful.
There will be people of all kinds in law school, and there would definitely be people who you end up closer to. How good your professor is really depends on your luck, because some in demand professors only teach one class. However, the difference in teaching across professors is not hugely important, because you will only be graded against the other students your professor teaches.
With every faculty, there will be competition. Especially since how good of a lawyer you become is also based on how many cases you win against other people, the situation in law school can be the same if you let it get to your head. The only time competition REALLY matters is moot, but even then the profs grade based on your own arguments, not whether your arguments are strictly better than your opponents.
Snake culture is something which has become prominent in many faculties across all the universities. Please do not be a snake, because once you snake someone, word gets around very easily.
While this sounds like you cannot trust anyone, the main thing you should do is to just focus on doing your work right and to only care about the opinions of the people who matter to you. If you are a good person, you will be with good people and then you can all help each other. Usually, your professor for that subject will upload a list of book chapters, articles or cases they will include cases This also shows that you did your readings and the professor can give you more class participation marks!
With that said, law professors do not expect you to know how to do proper case readings from the very beginning. This mod teaches you how to write case briefs, how to do research for cases properly, the format for preparing various legal documents such as legal memorandums and appellate briefs and, most significantly, how to moot! This module can be quite interesting because you apply the law you learn in other subjects such as criminal law, tort law or contract law to certain scenarios and write them in certain documents which real lawyers prepare for court.
In class, the professor will go through a topic with you and cover the different cases related to that topic cases which you should already know about from your readings. Then, the professor can ask questions about the case or give you a hypothetical scenario for you to answer. These hypotheticals will be loosely based on the factual matrix of the cases given in the reading list, so knowing how a case was decided is important in deciding whether the hypothetical should have the same result.
If you want to know more about the curriculum, visit the SMU Law website! We both love the area, and visit at least one weekend every month we both currently attend university in Oklahoma. His entire family lives in the metroplex, as do most of our close friends, and we would love to live close to them. I plan to settle and practice in Dallas, and because of this, believe SMU to be the best choice for me.
Re: Why SMU- any feedback? You don't really write specifically about what SMU has to offer that attracted you. Post by cutecarmel » Mon Dec 12, am No no no please don't submit this. It has nothing to do with the law school what-so-ever. It appears that if any other school were to replace it in that area, you would go. You like the city, not the school. Research information about the programs, clinics, clubs, student body, etc.
I'm sure there has to be something about the law school that you like besides the location. You can add, as a side note, that the location is perfect for you and your family, but please add more information about the school.
Post by postn0bills » Mon Dec 12, am cutecarmel wrote: No no no please don't submit this. The first factor I considered in choosing where to apply to law school was location. What began as an appeal to the location has developed into an interest in the Dedman School of Law. As someone interested in business law, I am especially attracted to the Small Business Clinic. If accepted, I am eager to participate in this program. Although there are many reasons why I want to attend SMU Dedman School of Law, the quality of the education is what confirms my decision.
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