Last year, I had the privilege of teaching a Professional Responsibility class of 18 highly talented students from Beijing at an excellent law school. The class started at 8 a.m. and was a hybrid of about 50% in-person and 50% remote attendees from Beijing (twelve hours ahead). I entered the experience excited and left feeling that it had exceeded my already high expectations.

Mindful that many are more qualified than I to speak on this subject, I thought a novice perspective might be uniquely valuable to other newcomers. And so, here are a dozen things I was either glad I thought of or came to learn (sometimes the hard way) during the semester: