<p>I have no idea where you need to be in your class. However, think long and hard about whether you really want to do this. If you’re going into your school thinking about transferring, I can’t imagine you’re going to fully engage. Law school is only 3 years. A lot of students get involved in organizations during their first year and stay involved in those organizations. You develop relationships with professors and classmates that could be beneficial in the long run - there is a certain comaraderie that develops amongst first years. At my law school, there was a first year “small section” class in which you really got to know 20-30 of your classmates. At least when I went to law school, you wrote onto law review at the end of first year. There was a fellowship program at my law school where 2nd years did a lot of the teaching for the 1st year legal writing classes, and whether you got into that program was dependent upon your first year performance. Unless a student is unhappy with his or her law school experience (something you can’t possibly predict before you even start!), I don’t think transferring is a good idea. I would work for a year and reapply to my top choices before I went to a law school from which I was already thinking about transferring.</p>