law student
Future bar taker
A law student is someone enrolled in a program of legal education, typically pursuing a Juris Doctor or equivalent degree.
The term implies years of intensive study—reading cases, writing briefs, enduring the Socratic method: Every law student dreads being cold-called in contracts class.
Law students occupy a liminal status: deeply immersed in legal thinking but not yet licensed to practice.
- bar examLicensure test for attorneys
- casebookCompiled judicial precedents
- moot courtHypothetical case exercise
- briefShort in duration
- contractsEnforceable written agreements
torts · civil procedure · legal writing · finals · debt · coffee · highlighter · outlines · Socratic method · cold call · library · clerk · internship · summer associate · billable hours · LSAT · tuition · grades
- law schoollegal education, 1L, first year, JD, JD degree
- legal educationlegal education, moot court, legal training, LLM, JD
- Legal Traineeslegal intern
- studentsfreshman, sophomore, pupil, junior, senior
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- college lifefreshman, freshman year, sophomore, junior, classes
law studentclient
One who hires professionals
prisoner · plaintiff · criminal defendant · defendant · layperson
law, student, laws, lawful, lawfully, unlawful, unlawfully, lawless, lawlessness