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Law Practice

Feb. 19, 2019

What volunteer activities help law school applicants the most?

I am asked for advice about legal careers quite a bit, especially how to get into law school. Some prospective 1Ls likely would rather not receive all my answers.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

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What volunteer activities help law school applicants the most?
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I am asked for advice about legal careers quite a bit, especially how to get into law school. Some prospective 1Ls likely would rather not receive all my answers. The question that ticks me off is what volunteer work a person should do in order to improve their application. I am naive enough to be dumbfounded, because when I sit down to try to help the kid who has been referred to me, I realize they do not care about the cause but instead are motivated by their own ré...

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