If you really want to be a lawyer, you should just suck it up and go through another semester.  Many schools have programs to help struggling students who didnt quite understand how to take exams.  It is a common thing.  I know quite a few who got horrible grades the first semester but turned it around during the second.

Quitting your school to try to go to another one is a poor choice.  Good luck

Congrats to you Matthies, you are a super law student who knows which items to skim through.  My classes generally assign readings that require 3 hours of study time for every hour of lecture... so 15 credits correlates to around 60 hours... and then law review/journals/clinics usually take up more time than that.  But that is awesome that you are so good, I am sure you are a superior man than I. 

And I gave anecdotal items because so many others were giving their personal stories.  There's no doubt some parents are so inept raising children that you could have both of them in the house 24/7 and the kids still would be F'd.  I still maintain that it is selfish to undertake law school/med school/and anything else that requires 60+ hours a week (20 hrs tops if you are of Matthies genius law man level) while being a single mother.  If you want the kids, spend time with the kids...

And I am not saying a woman must choose between law and having children.  I fully support women going out and getting themselves a trophy stay-at-home husband. 

And to the Berkeley animal shelter thing.  I am not exaggerating-  even Matthies of the 20 hour law school study/50+ hr internet commenting schedule couldn't get a puppy.  They hear law school and they say no way.   

sure sara... typical that you would be in Berkeley.  Whats funny is that if you went to an animal shelter to get a dog around Cal and told them you were in your first year of law school and single... you would be rejected.  They wouldnt allow you to adopt an animal.  And Rightly so...  Because it is cruel to have a puppy and be gone 8-12 hours a day everyday.  But a woman with a 3 or 4 year old... who are we to judge?

 

I don't know where the OP is located but if you are willing to drive to a neigboring county, away from local law schools, you could have better luck.  I had trouble looking in major cities as i found that a lot of the 2L's were competing for goverment and court internships.

Three weeks ago I applied to superior courts about 45min to an hours drive away and found that the competition was negligible for those internships.  It seems like the expense of driving scares off a lot of people.  Compared to the cost of summer school, the gas expense isn't that cost prohibitive.

Anyway, if you want to take a last ditch chance hit some of the neighboring counties.

I was in the same situation last year.  I had a whole summer with nothing to do and wanted to know what I could do to prepare.  I read a legal history of the US which I did find beneficial.  I learned a bit about the important supreme court judges and read up on their background.  I don't know if it helped grade-wise or anything, but it did make certain court decisions more interesting when i read them. I had better context.

If I had it to do over again, I would have tried to get a part-time job working in a law office... even if it was strictly volunteering.