Surviving Law School

Surviving Law School is a guidebook to assist new law students achieve academic and career success. Students will learn how to focus their time, prepare and take examinations, and pursue career opportunities.

Based on the authors' considerable experience teaching law to students in law schools and law related programs, this book is essential for any student who wants to be successful in their law and legal studies. Brogan is at University of Western Sydney and Spencer is at Macquarie University.

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

"Packed with insights from over 1,000 law students, this book offers practical wisdom to help law students find a sense of purpose. An indispensable companion for law students, prospective law students, and law professors and scholars"--

Ace law school with 115 rules from a recent graduate who remembers the experience all too well. Do Away with Your Common Sense and Think Like a Lawyer Shake the Jitters Keep a Law School Journal Don't Fall in Love with Your Professor Accept That All of Your Professors May Not Like You Don't Agonize over Atrocious Grades Learn to Spot the Bad Professors (Types I and II) Scope Out the Smarty-Pants Keep Good Friends Make Lots of Whoopie! Take Soothing Baths Throw a Party Marion T.D. Lewis, a recent law school graduate, tells you exactly what you need to know to survive those hellish law school years. Ms. Lewis provides valuable insight into what your life will be like personally and professionally on and off campus, in class and out -- along with 115 rules and lots of simple advice guaranteed to help you become a well-rounded, happy, healthy, and successful law student. Here are the words of wisdom you'll need, dispensed in a sympathetic way, by one who remembers how it felt to sit in class and to be terrorized by difficult professors. This insider information covers a wide range of topics, from believing in yourself, studying, sizing up professors, dressing for success, and managing money to relaxing and having fun. Whether you're just starting law school or in your third year, this advice may well be your key to success, because surviving the paper chase takes much more than just hitting the law books!

This guide to surviving and thriving (aka "surthriving") in law school--and beyond--is filled with unique insights from a former BigLaw associate (and current in-house counsel) as well as accomplished guest contributors who offer actionable tools, candid advice, and helpful strategies that law students and all legal professionals can start using today to immediately achieve more happiness, success and well-being in law (and life).

I wish I knew then what I know now! Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience...read this book! Written for students about to embark on this three year odyssey, by students who have successfully survived law school. Law School Confidential demystifies the life-altering thrill ride that defines an American legal education by providing a comprehensive, blow-by-blow, chronological account of what to expect. Law School Confidential arms students with a thorough overview of the contemporary law school experience. This isn't the advice of graying professors or battle-scarred practitioners decades removed from the law school. Fresh out of University of Pennsylvania Law School, Robert Miller has assembled a panel of recent law school graduates all of whom are perfectly positioned to shed light on what law school is like today. Law School Confidential invites you to walk in their steps to success and to learn from their mistakes. From taking the LSAT, to securing financial aid, to navigating the notorious first semester, to exam-taking strategies, to applying for summer internships, to getting on the law review, to tackling the bar and beyond...Law School Confidential explains it all.

This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look at the low points of grad school. Inside, you’ll find: • advice on maintaining a veneer of productivity in front of your advisor • tips for sleeping upright during boring seminars • a description of how to find which departmental events have the best unguarded free food • how you can convincingly fudge data and feign progress This hilarious guide to surviving and thriving as the lowliest of life-forms—the grad student—will elaborate on all of these issues and more.