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Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
by: Robert H. Miller |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 340.071173 EAN: 9780312318819 Edition: Revised Edition ISBN: 0312318812 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: January 01, 2004 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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  - Completely WorthlessI am a law school graduate. This book is completely worthless and a waste of time and money. Planet Law School tells you the few things you need to know and do--- some of which are: class is irrelevant, first year is everything, ethics is not only irrelevant but detrimental to optimal legal functioning and should be quickly drowned in a sea of relativism, black-letter law isn't typically taught but is everything and you must learn it on your on ( hence, why law school?) and learn the basics BEFORE law school by reading commercial outlines for a couple hundred bucks, etc. ( hence, why law school? ) Law School is a waste of time beyond the first year experience. Law should be taught like any other field of "knowledge"-- it isn't because law schools make a bundle with this three year swindle and law profs are lazy preening prima donnas typically. There is nothing mysterious about learning Law-- if you appoach it as if it were any other body of information to be learned. This book is worthless-- so many pages which say absolutely nothing. Planet Law School is the one to go with. It tells you the handful of things you need to know. Try thinking about NOT going to law school-- we have enough people who just cut up the pie in a different way versus people who increase the size of the pie. JD, University of Texas School of Law, 86-89 Rating:  - good prep book for law schoolThis book is good at letting you know what to expect. It may not calm the nerves, but it's realistic. It tells you what to look foward to and what not to look foward to. I recomend buying this if your looking into going to law school. Rating:  - A great read for any law studentI ordered this book shortly after my acceptance into law school because I wanted to be more prepared before my first semester started and I believe this book really helped. A lot of the information seemed like common sense stuff to me, but it really helped. I'm not going to bore anyone with too many details, but I had read a few bad reviews on this book, but if you want to know more details about law school I would recommend reading this book Rating: - This book has no equal for preparing for law school.When I first read the reviews for this book about six months ago, before I entered law school or purchased the book, I noticed that there seemed to be countless reviews from pre-1Ls saying how prepared they "felt" about law school. This was obviously worthless support since they had not used any of the advice first-hand. Although I have only completed one semester of law school so far, I believe that I can really testify that the book is a brilliant piece of writing for anybody preparing for law school. Its advice on book-briefing, using commercial outlines, and preparing for class are spot on and need to be followed by as many law students as are willing. Also, the advice it gives on securing a summer job, which I have used extensively so far during Christmas break for getting a 1L summer associateship, is terrifically helpful, especially since it provides an albeit somewhat outdated interview with hiring partners of both a small firm and a large firm. Anyone preparing for law school needs to get this book; it spells out what you need to do not just for your first year but EACH YEAR OF LAW SCHOOL, including Law Review (and the process of getting on journals), moot court, and all things 2L- and 3L-related. But if you are my classmate, don't buy the book... I want to stay on top of the curve as much as possible. :-) Rating: - Helpful.. but not perfectI got this book the summer before I started law school. I really had no idea what to expect with regards to law school at the time, and this book really helped me feel prepared. However this book does go slightly overboard with it's recomendations at times. For instance, it says to retake the lsat and wait to go to school if you don't get accepted to one of the highest ranked schools. This seems a bit impractical. Also, once I started my first semester as a 1l, I realized that it was not always helpful to do everything the book recomends. I started out doing the daily outlining, but I soon realized it was not useful. I was outlining 15 pages a week for each of my classes even though I had no idea what I should actually be putting in an outline or how it should be structured. It also was not helping me understand how all the cases fit together, and by the end of the semester I didn't remember anything about the outlining I did in the beginning of the semester. After the first few weeks I gave up on the daily outlining, and ended up making my outlines later in the semester after I actually some understanding of the subject manner and I learned a lot better that way. I did however find many of the books recomendations very helpful, such as briefing cases with different colored highlighters. I also found getting commercial outlines to be very helpful, especially towards the end of the semester. This book didn't mention them, but I purchased books from Emanuel's Crunchtime series for my first semester contracts and torts classes and they were extremely helpful. Overall, I would recomend Law School Confidential, just don't feel like you absolutely have to do everything it tells you to. |
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