This useful guide (adapted from Gianna Scatchell’s Legally Noted) could help you spend more time studying because you won’t need it for sharing downtime with the opposite sex. Or for lateral thinking types, it might help you moderate your behaviour and achieve the reverse.

Legally Noted’s Gianna Scatchell sets it out like this:

As you girls know, law school is a vile institution in which hot males come in the same frequency as in a nursing home. But being uber busy can also cause people to overlook some of their twitchy tendencies that are major turn-offs. This post is meant to be a humorous, non-offensive look at some of the twat-blocking characteristics of female law students.

So on with the tips:

1. First, and foremost, if you’re being indignant, knock-it-off! Everyone gets it. You’re a female, you’re gonna be a lawyer. You’ve proven yourself.

2. Pearls. A pearl necklace does not need to be worn with your popped-collar Lacoste shirt. You’re a mature and serious lady with a mature and serious career ahead yes ok, but it’s still ok to be a Marilyn too.

3. Updating your FaceBook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. with self-proclaiming status messages about “how great of a catch you are” or “how much fun you have being single.” Yawn, snore, ignore! These self-damaging messages are not making your ex-boyfriend, fling, or whatever jealous. Instead, you’re deterring the potential future prospects by looking like a narcissistic alcoholic. Nothing says sexy like having to be mopped up off the floor when going on a date.

4. Conversely, Updating your FaceBook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. with self-deprecating statements about how “you’re going to die alone in a world filled with cats and candles.” My other favorite is the “I’m going on a date tonight.” Let’s face it: if that’s your status message you’re most likely spending the evening watching Lifetime movies eating a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or your curled up in the fetal position. Be honest, most of the time, you drive yourself crazy wondering if he likes you or not for the sole purpose of being able to reject him. That seems productive.

5. Trying to sound intellectual by parsing together the biggest words in LegalEase … the guy will be about as turned on as if you were discussing your menstrual cycle or a yeast infection. Just don’t.

6. The only time that the words fertile or biological clock should come up, is if you’re explaining the fertile-octogenarian rule. And that rule should be shelved unless you’re tutoring some hot law student peer.

7. Just because you’re studying law is no excuse to let yourself go physicially. Nothing says sexy like cottage cheese thighs, greasy hair, and cubicle ass! Yes we’re all busy, but personal up-keep is not optional … it’s essential.