You can hardly expect a lawyer to know everything. I find it hard to believe that a lawyer practicing criminal law in some court of session is going to remember the intricacies of corporate law from his law school lectures. The main point of studying a subject in law school is that you at least retain a basic understanding of that subject when you start to practice. You can simply read up on a point of law whenever you need to if your memory fails. What matters is that you know how to search for the relevant material and then apply it to the facts in an efficient manner.

I have been in a similar situation buddy and still am regarding some subjects. The only way you are gonna remember things is to develop interest in them and teach the subject to your friends role-playing as a professor (or just have a GD, whichever suits your boats).

For example I love IP law and I know it like the back of my hand. But if you ask me to say something on Class 1 heirs of some religious community in family law context, I may not be able to.

I am studying in the final year of a T1 NLU. Batch of 2024. I have an above-average batch rank. I will be joining a T1 firm in next few months. What makes me worried is that I don't know anything.

It feels like I have a cache memory. I study the last two weeks before the exam and ace them but after a few weeks or even days, I forget everything. I thought earlier that pandemic prep and online classes might be the reason but even after pandemic, the same situation persisted. RN it feels like I have wasted my 5 years. I am scared to interact with lawyers or law students from local law colleges during my internship who have all the concepts and sections at the back of their minds. I am also scared if some lay men ask me some questions of family law regarding partition, succession, or tax. How can I say I don't know all this? The only comfort that I have is the fact that at least my friend circle (with same above average gpa and who are all placed like me in Ts1) are in the same boat when it comes to past knowledge.

So my question to all especially the A0s, A1s etc is this. Is this normal for everyone?

Should I start prep again just to escape the embarrassment while working? Also, I feel like even if I study once again I will forget after few months (I am not even talking about sections and articles, but just the concepts). So all those peeps who know all sections and concepts inside out .....how do you do this? Thanks. PLEASE DON'T TROLL, I AM GENUINELY CONCERNED.