If you think the best thing to get a new law student is a pocket-sized Constitution… or God forbid you’re the law student who thinks you’ll need one—bless your heart. 🫣

Please just use this list instead. Don’t embarrass yourself. 🥸

1. Book Stand

This is technically a laptop stand. But in law school, it doubled as my textbook stand. I brought one to law school during the first week. I swear, the next week, everyone in my section had one too. 🤣

Having a book stand was the second best thing I got for future me (the first one was a good lamp for late night reading to protect my eyes). It made it easy to read my cases because I didn’t have to prop up an eight-pound book in class or in my home office. 🤞

If you really want to be bad and bougie: check out this acrylic book stand or this walnut book stand.

2. Short & Happy Guides

Help a newbie law student understand what her professors teach (“the law”) versus what she hears (a foreign language).

She’s simply just a girl. Make drafting outlines and graduating law school short and happy for her. 🎀

3. How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School

I’ll be honest: I didn’t read this before law school… 🤷

But from what I’ve seen from those who have, I wish I did. Especially as someone who didn’t have lawyers in my family. 😩

4. A Lawyer Writes

This is a resource that will last you well past law school. A Lawyer Writes demystifies the process of legal writing and drafting memorandums. I still use this all the time in practice. 💡

She is covered in highlights because she’s that girl. 🤏

Snag the 2024 Edition here or the edition I have here.

5. A Quality Water Bottle

I prefer a Hydrojug because it’s fully waterproof (unlike a Stanley). This has saved my laptop several times… as well as court reporters’ exhibits during depositions…🤭

For long days in class and work, I use the 40 oz Hydrojug which keeps cold all day. For half days or when I’m lazy, I use the 20 oz Hydrojug.

For you Stanely girls and guys, I’ve found that this lid set gives you the waterproofing benefit similar to the Hydrojug. I’ve gifted it several times and everyone loves it. 🫶

BONUS: Prompt Series Collection

With this list, you’ll be able to provide the law student in your life tools that bridge stress to structure, chaos to clarity, and burnout to backbone. But let’s not romanticize it: no gadget, no water bottle, no book stand will silence the voice in the back of your mind that says “You’re behind. You’re not good enough. You can’t do this.”

Because burnout doesn’t come from not having enough—it comes from believing you’re not enough.

If you’re ready to build up your belief system, our ChatGPT Prompt Journeys were built for exactly this. They’re guided self-coaching tools designed to help law students (and the people who love them) untangle mental chaos, rewire their mindset, and remember their why. Because law and life are marathons, NOT sprints.

Whether they’re a Late Bloomer fighting to prove they’re not behind, a Goal Getter pushing for the next level, or a Burnt-Out Overachiever one notification away from crashing out—there’s a prompt series waiting for them.

Start or gift the Prompt Journey Collection and build ambitions a foundation when the world feels like it’s caving in.

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