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Provides advice for first year law students on a variety of issues and strategies to help them avoid the pitfalls that are common amongst first year students…. More >>
Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won’t Learn in Class, 2nd Edition
this is the best book for pre-law and 1L students….ignore everyone else’s advice. This book condenses advice down to a thin book.
Rating: 5 / 5
One of the blogs I read in anticipation of my first year was authored by an obviously succesfull student and he recommended this book. Shame he is a commie. An outline on your first year with a solid emphasis on legal writing, outlining and exams. I found the legal writing section to be very useful because I didn’t have a very good legal writing professor. Some cold hearted conservatives argue that academia is where professionals who couldn’t hack it in the big times end up earning their bread. If law school professorships are where dejected high power attorneys get banished, then the dregs of this barrel of dejection are inhabited by your legal writing professor and probably your career placement director. The greatest academic surprise I encountered my first semester of law school was how much effort and time learning legal writing would take on my own. This book will help you learn the formula your whacky and/or drunk legal writing professor is looking for. Unfortunately, legal writing professors are zany and ineffective in their own individual ways so the help this book provides will be minimal. Legal writing’s importance cannot be overrated, any help is good help. The glossary found at the end of this 130 page outline should supplement any need for a copy of Black’s Law Dictionary but waste your money if you want; Westlaw has a copy online.
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Rating: 5 / 5
Plain and simple, this book gives bad advice. Avoid it…and pick up a worthwhile read like The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School by Prof Charles Whitebread. Whitebread gives useful tips on how to succeed on law school exams, which determine 100% of your grade in many cases.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is an excellent book for first year law students. My friends have all borrowed it to read. It has great tips on exam writing and writing briefs. The only problem was it has an American flavour to it and I am in a Canadian law school.
Rating: 4 / 5
Nearing completion of my first semester of law school, I can say that the gross majority of advice in this book was totally incorrect. It was actually detrimental to me to read this book.
Rating: 1 / 5