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Do lawyers use the skills learned from the LSAT?

Webby_SongdoWebby_Songdo Alum Member
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"You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times." -Amy Chua, YLS professor

Invent Google, Facebook, Ipod -> Master the basics and Willing to put in long hours and Can pick yourself up from the floor

Is this an appropriate Lawgic to draw? Also, is she using logics because she studied for the LSAT, went to HLS, and is a professor at YLS?

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  • zoomzoomzoomzoom Member
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    From what I have been told and understand, there are many things lawyers do (and any profession does) that are different from what we learn in school. However, there are core skills that lawyers and all law students use that are pivotal to their success, skills that the LSAT absolutely test you on.

    Those skills include: being able to process large quantities of information for key ideas quickly (RC), attention to detail (LR/RC), being able to spot valid/invalid inferences and piece them together (LG/LR). And, as an added bonus, strong work ethic (a good LSAT score is very likely only achieve with hard work and lots of time spent studying).

    So if you can hone those skills in while studying for the LSAT, you will certainly have a few core skills that will serve you well in law school. There's a reason why they say the LSAT tends to be a good indicator of first-year grades in law school.

  • Webby_SongdoWebby_Songdo Alum Member
    677 karma

    @oychoi79 said:
    From what I have been told and understand, there are many things lawyers do (and any profession does) that are different from what we learn in school. However, there are core skills that lawyers and all law students use that are pivotal to their success, skills that the LSAT absolutely test you on.

    Those skills include: being able to process large quantities of information for key ideas quickly (RC), attention to detail (LR/RC), being able to spot valid/invalid inferences and piece them together (LG/LR). And, as an added bonus, strong work ethic (a good LSAT score is very likely only achieve with hard work and lots of time spent studying).

    So if you can hone those skills in while studying for the LSAT, you will certainly have a few core skills that will serve you well in law school. There's a reason why they say the LSAT tends to be a good indicator of first-year grades in law school.

    awesome thank you

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