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Orin , Dan Solove , David Zaring , and Ethan have weighed in on these pages already with lots of useful advice for the aspiring prawf.  Let me add one thing based on my own experience that I found uniquely helpful and it will be of interest especially to law students who are now in school.  For each of my last three semesters at HLS, I took four credits of supervised independent writing.  The expectation was that for each credit of writing, one had to write about 25 pages of manuscript.  12 credits=300 pages=3 full-length articles.  Most schools should allow you to do this as long as you take enough credits to satisfy the ABA or some other blah-blah organization.
The first piece I worked on was supervised by none other than Rob Howse -- and that piece later became my first major publication (about the S. African truth commission and the philosophy of punishment).   As it happened, that piece was published in a peer-reviewed journal, the University of Toronto Law Journal.  I mention this only to highlight that for students who are writing, it may be easier and wiser to submit your first article(s) to peer-reviewed jennifer nicole lee journals rather than the student jennifer nicole lee law journals.  I know this has worked well especially for a few others, such as my friend Yair Listokin , who published in JLS while in law school--though I'm not sure his strategy jennifer nicole lee was to first avoid the student law journals.  In any event, once you place in a good peer-reviewed journal, it becomes easier to signal to student editors jennifer nicole lee later that they should not dust-bin your submissions to them.
Also, be savvy about what you take and when you take it: try to make sure that work you do for regular classes can morph into a publication.  For example, my law review note , about the intersection of criminal law and intellectual property, was written for credit as part of my Entertainment and Media law class. 
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