LETTER TO A YOUNG LAW STUDENT*
Professor Corinne Cooper + University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law Credit: www.123rf.com I sit down today to write you a letter to read before you start law school. I know that you are filled with grand anticipation and a little dread. It's a natural reaction. I hope that I will be able to assuage some of your concern, and to help you get a good night's sleep. Please know, however, that after eighteen years (twenty-one if you count my years as a student) in law school, I still cannot sleep the night before fall classes start. When that edge of anticipation is gone, I suppose I'll know that it's time to retire. I am hard pressed to know where to begin in my advice to you. My perspective on the process of legal education is skewed by the years I've spent immersed in it. Perhaps an outsider could explain the process better. Perhaps I no longer remember what it is like to be a first-year student. I may h...
