<p>How is the English level? Certainly above college level and need to know legal terminologies?
A lot of papers to write and memorization? How are the tests formatted?</p>
<p>There are a lot of terms that you will learn but it is not really memorization as you simply pick them up as you proceed and then constantly reuse them. Much consists of reading casebooks with edited (shortened versions) of decided cases and then dealing with hypothetical factual situations where you are supposed to apply the legal rules you are learning from the cases. English language is not that difficult but understanding what the cases actually hold and why and how it relates to similar situations (the real exercise you will be engaging in) is the most difficult part in the first year. You will find that sometimes you do not have to read more than 20 pages as homework for the night but trying to figure out what those pages are trying to tell you may result in 8 hours of studying during the evening and then you will go to class the next day and the prof, through questioning of the students, will show that you did not understand a damn thing that you read. You will be 5 weeks into the semester and suddenly a bell will go off and you will, for the first time, understand what you learned in the first week. Of course, understanding what you are learning in that sixth week is still a few weeks away.</p>
<p>You actually do not write a lot of papers except mainly in required legal writing courses, where you learn how to do legal research and write legal memormandum that analyze issues. What you will probably write and constantly change as the semester progresses is an outline of the things you are learning during the semester so you will have the outline to use for preparing for the final exam which in many courses is the only test you get and the only thing that decides your entire grade. It is not so much memorization as understanding and constant reuse of the same concepts. You will spend a lot of time going to other books, some called hornbooks, which often give more simpler explanations of the legal rules the prof is thoroughly (and purposefully) confusing you with. You can have a photographic memory and easily flunk out of law school because creative, thorough and logical thinking in the way of the law is actually what you are supposed to be learning. For the most part, the final exams are written and basically you get hypothetical factual situations for which you then must figure out and analyze all the legal issues that the situation creates.</p>
<p>Freshman who fail or drop out in college usually do so because they get distracted, miss classes, don't study etc. Freshman who fail or drop out in law school usually do so because despite going to all the classes, studying hard, and trying their best, they just don't understand what they are supposed to be understanding and many of those are people who float through high school and college with straight A's.</p>