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For quick reference, here are links to
related books we have reviewed:
You have worked too hard to
get into law school to allow a bad first semester or
year to derail your dreams. These books have received
favorable recommendations from our previous clients.
1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School by Andrew J. McClurg
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Ask any law student and they'll tell you
the hype that 1L receives is well justified. Enter
Professor McClurg who offers a perspective on the 1L
experience that few others can match and he deftly uses
humor and a first-person narrative backed by substantive
research to help readers get the most out of that
crucial first year of law school.
Acing Your First Year of
Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn
in Class by Shana
Connell Noyes and Henry S. Noyes
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This book gives good tips on how to succeed
in your law school classes and graduate near
the top of your class. You'll learn both essential study
skills and the most efficient exam preparation techniques.
This book also does an adequate job of communicating how
extremely stressful law school is, particularly during
the first year. It makes good reading
for those contemplating law school as well as those
who have already gained admission to law school.
Planet
Law School II: What You Need to Know (Before You Go),
But Didn't Know to Ask by Atticus Falcon
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We personally know students who swear
this book helped them make law review. The "worst-case
scenarios" covered in the book have been described as
necessary for promoting buy in to the methodologies
advocated by the author for law school success.
Getting to Maybe: How to
Excel on Law School Exams by
Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy R. Paul
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this book from Amazon.com
Law school work is voluminous. This book
contains good tips for how to quickly identify the areas
on which to concentrate your studies. It also advises
you on how to prepare your arguments.
Law School Revealed: Secrets, Opportunities, and Success! by
Ursula Furi-Perry
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Law School Revealed offers a very
comprehensive look at the law school experience. While the main focus is on law school
academic success strategies, the book also covers critical information such as joint degree and concentration options, study abroad, extracurriculars, and career planning.
Finally, we would be remiss if we didn't mention that
the advice on
using your summer before matriculation to most effectively sharpen your study skills
is very insightful.
Eight Secrets to Top Exam
Performance in Law School by
Charles H. Whitebread
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This is a must read for any incoming law
student. Reading this book will not take the place of studying
– but it
will help you move along the law school learning curve much
more quickly, by helping you study more efficiently and
preparing you to face those law school exams with more confidence.
Starting Off Right in Law
School by Carolyn
J. Nygren
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This quick and easy read is a good
choice for students with little pre law experience. It
walks the reader through a law case involving a
restaurant. More importantly, it provides study tips and
suggests helpful ways to handle the difficult first year
experience.
What Law Schools Don't Teach
You ... But You Really Need to Know by
Kimm Walton
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Law schools excel at teaching legal
theory. Unfortunately, theory represents only the bare minimum
you will need to learn if you want to excel in your career. This
book offers insight into nuts-and-bolts matters such
as navigating the partnership track, negotiating
your salary, getting the cases you want to work on, and converting
summer associate positions into full-time job offers. We
have heard it praised by attorneys who read it after
having been out of law school
for 5 years or more – their only negative comment was
that they wished they had read the book much earlier in
their careers!
Nail Your Law Job Interview by
Natalie Prescott and
Oleg Cross
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This is the best law career book we have
found. It does go a bit beyond the needs of a newly
admitted law school student by covering topics such as
handling lay offs, but we encourage you to view that as
bonus material and a fine reason to hold on to this book
as a handy reference. And indeed it is a book to retain and re-read every time you consider making a career move due to its
insight into such topics as working with recruiters, lunch interview etiquette, gap fillers and arrogant interviewers.
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