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Second week on solicitor and I have retained basically nothing

Real estate and business especially. I finish a chapter and could not tell you one thing that was in it an hour later. Barrister did not feel like this.

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rewrite_era Sat June 2026 Rewriting in November

Sat both in June and the second one is a different job. Barrister pays you for holding a framework, solicitor pays you for knowing a sequence. Retention on a first pass was near zero for me too.

kb_reads

public law nearly ended me so I would take the sequences

willindexforfood

this is where my index stopped being optional. how is everyone binding theirs btw, one book per section or all together?

mildly_prepared replying to willindexforfood

Per section every time. One big book means flipping past real estate to reach business while the clock runs.

nine_tabs replying to willindexforfood

All together and I would do it again. Two books on the desk instead of seven and I never lost time picking up the wrong one. Preference rather than strategy honestly.

solicitorseason OP

we have invented a binding thread, love that for us

mildly_prepared

Back to your actual post, the second pass is where it lands. First time through real estate I had nothing. Second pass it went in over about four days and I stopped panicking.

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