It’s Day #1 of the Dear 1L® 2026 summer cohort for new 1Ls!

I have 7 students, and we’ll meet once a week during June and July.

The course is designed to help students:

🔹 Prepare a résumé and LinkedIn profile for the legal industry

🔹 Use the LI search feature to identify school alumni who practice law

🔹 Think strategically about what they’ll do with their JD

🔹 Develop a targeted networking plan that they can start this summer

We will also work on how to:

—Read and write clear prose about court decisions

—Structure an IRAC essay for doctrinal exams

—Organize a research memo like the one they’ll be assigned this fall

—Apply 10 core grammar & punctuation rules that 1Ls notoriously get wrong

—Avoid 10 common word-usage problems that regularly arise in legal writing

My goal is for all cohort members to enter law school ready to hit the ground running.

No one should be caught off guard in the fall when law-firm recruiting events and heavy reading assignments hit at the same time—all with the curve hanging overhead.

👉 We start at 12 noon EST today!

(Getting so excited.)

I’ll be reporting in with updates throughout the summer.

💌 Amanda

#Dear1L

P.S. What’s ONE thing you’d like me to teach incoming 1Ls?