I confess: I was an overly enthusiastic law school student. You know the kind. I showed up on the first evening of my first year, highlighters at the ready, excited to be there and ready to throw myself into learning the law.

Every single one of my professors said the same thing that first week—and I took their exhortations to heart: the only way to learn the law properly was to do the work—all of the work—and to show up every day to class prepared to be called on. And under no circumstances were we to buy the “Gilberts” summaries, or any other “canned” prep materials. Those were not for real or serious law students. Those were for hackers and slackers, and reliance on them would, at best, mean that I would get a sub-par legal education and, at worst, cause me to look like an idiot in class when I couldn’t answer the professor’s questions on the Rule Against Perpetuities, or Gibbons v. Ogden, or the required elements of a contract.

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