Welcome to PEDAL to Victory: The Five Traits of Highly Successful Law Students! In this lesson, we’ll survey the five fundamental attributes that drive the nation’s top law students to academic triumph. To help you remember them, we’ve devised the acronym PEDAL, which stands for:

• Proactivity,
• Efficiency,
• Diligence,
• Attention to detail, and
• Living with the exam in mind

I. Proactivity

We’ll start with the P in PEDAL, proactivity. Proactivity is the foundation; if you’re proactive, you’ll naturally...