How to navigate the first semester of law school By Naomi Neilson|08 March 2021 Once the congratulations and celebrations are out of the way, first-year law students entering the legal profession will need to start planning out the next chapter of their lives to ensure they are on the right track to come out of law school with success. Those first few months of law school will be both exciting and stressful and there will be no shortages of timetable confusion, networking opportunities and looming deadlines. While tips like “get to campus b efore classes start” should be an obvious one, it’s worth making a first-year checklist to keep a close eye on.