In the role as supervisor for students writing their bachelor or master thesis in law, the supervisor acts both as academic supervisor and as a process consultant. The following paper will focus on the supervisor's role as process consultant. To focus on the process rather than on the academic content of the thesis is in line with the faculty's general pedagogical learning principle that the students are “responsible for their own learning.” It is the student that is responsible for the choice of topic, the identification of the legal problems within the topic as well as for the outline and the content of the thesis. Just as important in this context is however, the fact that the focus in the process also reflects my experience with supervising students: It is not the substantial part of the thesis writing – the legal analysis – that is the most challenging part. The greatest challenge is how you get from an idea for a topic and a blank sheet of paper to the final thesis. Although each student and thereby each supervision process is individual by nature, I find that it is nevertheless possible to establish three main challenges that all students face when they write their thesis. These three main challenges may in my view be expressed by the following three questions: 1. How do I get started? 2. The midterm crisis: How do I limit my thesis and survive the process? 3. How do I finish off my thesis and ensure “the red thread”? The problem that I will try to answer in this paper is therefore the following: How do you conduct the supervision process, so that each individual student is prepared to face and to overcome the three main challenges of writing a thesis?