I have spent the last two days researching issues that take me right back to 1L civ pro. In retrospect, I'm not sure that civ pro is a great first year class--or maybe its just the way it was taught to me. I mean, I know that civ pro covers fundamental issues that are relevant to every type of case, but I just did not really understand the impact back when I had absolutely no understanding of the law. I did not connect the dots and fully understand the concepts back then, and so now I am having to relearn to fundamentals to research very pointed issues. Of course the great irony is that civ pro was one of my highest grades in law school and I had one of the highest grades in our section (top 10).
On the flip side, I took state procedure classes my second and third years, when I had a better understanding of the law and some actual experience from internships. I felt like I really did understand those classes and I have a great grasp of state procedure now. Those classes were my highest grades in law school.
And for my final irony, my worst grades and most detested classes in law school were in contracts and UCC classes--and my practice now revolves around contracts.
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I feel your pain! The class I hated the most in 1L was torts - and of course, my life is all about torts.
I wish CivPro had been a hands-on class - start the year with the filing of a complaint of some sort and then work through all permutations of a civil action. It would have made so much sense to me then.
CivPro needs to be an upper-level class. Maybe they can swap it with PR or something. CivPro was my best grade that semester but that was first semester of 1L year and I don't remember ANYTHING!
I had the most frightening professor for Civ Pro I. He made a dude pass out while in the hot seat during Erie. He scared me into learning Civ Pro... I hated that class, it made me sick to my stomach. What an awful subject, and an even worse class.
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