
What does a typical day look like in the life of a law student at UNH Franklin Pierce?
It’s not just studying—our students are participating in one of our many on-campus clubs, networking with professors and law practitioners, interviewing for jobs, and, of course, making a lot of lifetime friends along the way. Check out our “Day in the Life” series below to learn more.

Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand
Undergraduate: LL.B. in Laws
Areas of Interest: Trademark and Copyright
Activities: Asian Pacific Law Student Association (APALSA), Student Bar Association (SBA), Intellectual Property and Transaction Clinic, Hybrid Immersion
Monday
- 7:00 am - 8:25 am: Shower, cooking and making breakfast, cleaning up the dishes
- 8:30 am - 11:30 am: Advanced IP Clinic office hours
- 11:30 am - 12:25 pm: Lunch
- 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm: Profession Responsibility
- 1:55 pm - 3:25 pm: Graduate Legal Research and Information Literacy
- 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Evidence
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Study
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Shower and break time
- 8:00 pm - 12:00 am: Study
- 12:00 am: Bedtime
Tuesday
- 7:00 am - 8:40 am: Shower, cooking and making breakfast, cleaning up the dishes
- 8:45 am - 9:45 am: American Legal Process and Analysis II
- 10:00 am - 11:15 am: Copyright
- 11:15 am - 12:15 pm: Lunch
- 12:15 pm - 3:15 pm: Study
- 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm: Break time
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Study
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Study
- 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Student Bar Association general body meeting
- 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Shower and break time
- 9:30 pm - 12:00 am: Study
- 12:00 am: Bedtime
Wednesday
- 7:00 am - 9:00 am: Shower, cooking and making breakfast, cleaning up the dishes
- 9:00 am - 12:25 pm: Study and house chores
- 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm: Profession Responsibility
- 1:45 pm - 3:25 pm: Study
- 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Evidence
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Study
- 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Shower and break time
- 12:00 am: Bedtime
Thursday
- 7:00 am - 8:40 am: Shower, cooking and making breakfast, cleaning up the dishes
- 8:45 am - 9:45 am: American Legal Process and Analysis II
- 10:00 am - 11:15 am: Copyright
- 11:15 am - 12:15 pm: Lunch
- 12:15 pm - 12:55 pm: Break time
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Exercise
- 7:00 pm - 12:00 am: Shower and break time
- 12:00 am: Bedtime
Friday
- 7:00 am - 9:00 am: Shower, cooking and making breakfast, cleaning up the dishes
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am: Break time
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am: Go to a professor’s office hours
- 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Break time
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Asian Pacific American Law Student Association executive board meeting
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Exercise
- 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Dinner and break time
- 7:00 pm - 12:00 am: Shower and break time
- 12:00 am: Bedtime

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Undergraduate: BS in Mechanical Engineering; LL.B.
Area of Interest: Intellectual Property
Activities: UNH Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
Monday
- 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Preparing for my kids’ school attending
- 8:30 am – 10:30 am: Working out and eating
- 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: Study
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Legal Research
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Relax (Watch a movie)
- 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Eating dinner and study
Tuesday/Thursday
- 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Preparing for my kids’ school attending
- 8:45 am – 9:45 am: American Legal Process & Analysis II
- 10:00 am – 11:15 am: Copyright
- 11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Eating and Relax
- 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Study
- 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Patent Practice & Procedure II
- 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm: Eating dinner and working out/relax
Wednesday
- 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Preparing for my kids’ school attending
- 9:00 am – 12:00 am: Golf Area (in spring and fall season) / Skiing Area (in winter season)
- 12:00 am – 1:00 pm: Eating lunch
- 1:30 am – 5:00 pm: Study
- 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Eating dinner
- 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm: Working out
- 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Relax
Friday
- 7:00 am – 8:00 am: Preparing for my kids’ school attending
- 9:00 am – 12:00 am: Study
- 12:00 am – 1:00 pm: Eating lunch
- 2:30 am – 6:00 pm: Family Fun Time (Spend time with my kids. Usually visit park, beach, liabray, museum, indoor playground)
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm: Eating dinner
- 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Family movie night

Hometown: Porto Velho, Brazil
Undergrad: LL.B in laws
Areas of interest: trademark and copyright
Activities: Hispanic/Latino Law students Association (HLLSA), Intellectual Property and Transaction Clinic
Monday/Wednesday
- 6 am - 8 am: go to the gym then breakfast and get ready for school
- 8:30 am - 10 am: study
- 10:30 am - 11:45 am: Business Associations
- 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm: Professional Responsibility
- 1:55 pm - 3:25 pm: graduate legal research
- 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm: evidence
- 5:30 pm - 8 pm: study
Tuesday
- 6 am - 8 am: go to the gym then breakfast and get ready for school
- 8:45 am - 9:45 am: American Legal Process & Analysis
- 10 am - 11:15 am: copyright
- 1 pm - 7 pm: study
- 8 pm: relax
Thursday
- 6 am - 8 am: go to the gym then breakfast and get ready for school
- 8:45 am - 9:45 am: American Legal Process & Analysis
- 10 am - 11:15 am: copyright
- 11:30 am - 3 pm: work at admissions office
- 4 pm - 7 pm: study
- 8 pm: relax
Friday
- 6 am - 8 am: go to the gym then breakfast and get ready
- 8:30 am - 10 am: work at admissions office
- 10:30 am - 12 pm: study
- 1:30 pm - 4 pm: clean house
- 5 pm: relax
Saturday
- Day off
Sunday
- 9 am - 12 pm: study

Hometown: Guangzhou, China
Undergraduate: Inner Mongolia University of Technology, Hohhot, China, BS in ME. Shantou University, Shantou, China, MS in ME.
Areas of Interest: Patent law and litigation
Activities: Student Intellectual Property Association,
Monday
- 7:30 am - 8:30am: Wake up, eat breakfast, walk to school
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am: practice for litigation class
- 10:00 am-12:00 pm: patent litigation class
- 12:00 pm-1:55 pm: having lunch and review materials for Legal research class
- 1:55 pm - 3:25 pm: Legal research class
- 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm: watch some news, having a rest
- 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Eat dinner, study for American legal process & analysis (Tuesday class).
- 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm: Walk back home
- 10:00 pm -12:30 pm: Do litigation assignment.
Tuesday
- 7:30 am - 8:30 am: Wake up, eat breakfast, walk to school
- 8:45 am - 9:40 am: American legal class
- 9:40 am - 12:00am: Do the litigation assignment
- 12:00pm -1:00 pm: Have lunch,
- 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm: preparation study for Patent Practice & Procedure class
- 5:00 pm - 6:55 pm: Patent Practice & Procedure class
- 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm: Walk home
- 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm: Cook and have dinner, watch news, relax
- 9:00 pm - 12:00 pm: Do legal research class assignment
Wednesday
- 8:30 am - 9:30am: Wake up, eat breakfast
- 9:30 am - 12:00 am: Do patent litigation assignment
- 12:00 am - 1:30 pm: Have lunch
- 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Do American legal assignment
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Have dinner
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: continue doing litigation and American legal assignment
- 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm: watch news, relax
- 10:00 pm -12:00 pm: preparation work for tomorrow American legal class
Thursday
- 7:30 am - 8:30 am: Wake up, eat breakfast, walk to school
- 8:45 am - 9:40 am: American legal class
- 9:40 am - 12:00am: Do IP Management reading
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch
- 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Continue IP Management reading
- 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: have rest
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Have lunch, cleaning room
- 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm: study Fundamental of IP online course, finish the discussion
- 10:00 pm – 12:00 pm: watch news, relax
Friday
- 7:30 am - 8:30 am: Wake up, eat breakfast, walk to school
- 8:30 am - 10:20 pm: IP Management class
- 10:30 pm - 11:00 pm: walk back home
- 11:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Cook and have lunch
- 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Do Patent Practice & Procedure reading & assignments
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Have lunch
- 7:00 pm - 12:00 pm: Study for Saturday Patent Practice & Procedure class