Insider’s guide on how to excel in law school

MANILA, Philippines - Attention all aspiring lawyers! The best way to top the bar is to prepare even before you enter law school. In legal education, you will invest so much time, money, and effort to graduate and become a lawyer. Maximize these investments by starting out really prepared and fully equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to get excellent grades. Get yourselves psyched up mentally, physically and emotionally to face the rigors of any law school to achieve optimum performance. To help you achieve excellence in law school, the Center for Global Best Practices (CGBP), in collaboration with the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law, is holding a two-day intensive seminar-workshop entitled, “Insider’s Guide on How to Excel in Law School” on Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 12, 2013.

This pre-law program is uniquely tailored to meet the goal of surviving and excelling in law school as well as topping the bar exam thereafter. This unique course is specially designed to teach you all the proven techniques on how to really excel in class. Have a great start in law school, be ahead of the game and have a real edge by knowing the best kept secrets and study techniques of no. 1 bar topnotchers and valedictorians who will share their rich experiences on how to top in law school and the Philippine bar exams.

The two-day event will showcase the best practices in digesting, note taking, coding, and analyzing complex laws and cases, issue spotting, memory retention, and answering the toughest recitation and exams. This program will teach you how to prepare for bar exams from day one of law school and how to master the eight bar subjects. Learn what to expect in law school including how to impress terror professors, handle personal issues and deal with law deans, law school personnel, classmates, fraternities and sororities. It will also give you valuable insights and suggestions on easily understandable law books to read used by bar topnotchers to save time. This is an everything-you-need-to-know guide to excel in law school! And yes, you can wow your classmates and get the best experience enjoying your law school when you know how how to study effectively. It’s not necessary to be a genius to excel; one just needs to know how to do it.

This comprehensive program is based on the published book How to Excel in Law School featuring as a lecturer is its book author, Jim V. Lopez. It will also feature no. 1 bar topnotcher (2009) Reiner Paul R. Yebra who also graduated valedictorian of San Beda College Law School. He will share his effective study system that helped him and his study group become bar topnotchers. Some bar topnotchers happen by chance. His achievement was based on a systematic effort to top the bar! You can be no. 1 if you know all the techniques he will share with you! It will also feature highly respected law Dean and PCGG chairman Andres D. Bautista who is a class valedictorian in Ateneo Law School.