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time commitment? classes? is it reminiscent of senior yr of high school or something? lol

0L, but I have had friends and family go through law school.

What I have been told is that it entirely depends on what you choose to do. If you decide to be part of an Editorial Board for a Law Review, expect it to be insanely busy. However, you may be in a position where you don't have to do anything (you already have a job lined up) and, on top of that, you may have done externships for credit so you can choose to take only an 80% load.

3L here:

It really depends on what you do.

I'm doing a joint LLM in tax, so my schedule has been pretty tough. I had 6 exams first semester, and all of them were pretty hard. (international tax, corporate tax, tax accounting, exempt orgs, VAT tax, corporations). Nearly killed me.

This semester is a bit easier, but I'm still putting in plenty of hours.
I'm an editor of a journal, but it's not a huge component of the time commitment.

Overall, it's been slightly less work than 2L year, but only slightly. It's absolutely nothing like senior year of high school. I have a job lined up, but ITE I can't just slack my way to B- grades and expect to still have that job.

probably depends on whether you have a job lined up post-grad

and this job is lined up hopefully after 2L summer internships eh?

As others have said, it depends what you make of it.

If you do nothing but classes, you will have a lot of free time. Many students work part-time.

Class time and preparation is about 15-20 hours per week for me. I also have a law review editorial board position that usually requires 20-40 hours per week (sometimes more than 40). I was working part-time last semester. My 3L year has been the most time-consuming of the three.