Day in the Life

Student in the Jury Box Cafe for Holi

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.

Kay Phatprasit

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  

Min Woo Youn

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

Katherine Pereira

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 

Yunhe Wu

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