| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Contents |
""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Section One: Pre-Law""; ""Chapter 1: Preparing for Law School""; ""Do You Really Want to be an Attorney?""; ""Law and Disorder""; ""Motivationally Speaking""; ""Take Inventory""; ""Lifelines""; ""Sense and Sensibility""; ""Returning to School Later in Life""; ""Chapter 2: Applying to Law School""; ""Personal Essay""; ""Letters of Recommendation""; ""GPA""; ""Putting it all Together""; ""Play the Field""; ""College Majors""; ""School Rank""; ""Know the Process"" |
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""Transferring In""""What's in a Name?""; ""The LSAT""; ""Summer Solstice""; ""Section Two: First Year""; ""Chapter 3: Welcome to Law School""; ""Honor Thy Self""; ""Re-Orientation""; ""Avoiding First-Day Fumbles""; ""Before Classes Begin""; ""The Law Library""; ""The Assignment Board""; ""The Bookstore""; ""First Year Quarantine""; ""Discover Your Own Secrets for Success""; ""Study Aids""; ""Professors""; ""Bar Review Courses""; ""Socrates Who?""; ""Chapter 4: Non Illegitimi Carborundum""; ""Handling It All""; ""Isolation, Intimidation, and Humiliation""; ""Beer Here"" |
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""Method to the Madness""""Section Three: Knowing the Ropes without Hanging Yourself""; ""Chapter 5: Studying the Right Way""; ""Habitat Habits""; ""Reseaching in the 21st Century""; ""Reading, Reading, and More Reading""; ""Briefing Briefly""; ""Note Taking for Novices""; ""Recording Rhetoric""; ""Outlining for Success""; ""Chapter 6: Strategic Exam Taking""; ""Tricks of the Trade""; ""Passing is Not Enough""; ""Anonymity""; ""Using Your Laptop""; ""Section Four: Second Year""; ""Chapter 7: Freedom to Choose""; ""Get to Know Your Professors Before You are in Their Classes"" |
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""Grading Methods""""Other Important Questions""; ""Prerequisite Intent""; ""Chapter 8: Acclimatized Amnesty""; ""Clinical Programs""; ""Moot Court""; ""Research Assistants""; ""Law Review""; ""Journals""; ""Extracurricular Activities""; ""Studying Abroad""; ""Section Five: Career Chase""; ""Chapter 9: Finding the Right Job""; ""Résumé Writing�and Rewriting and Rerewriting""; ""Creative Cover Letters""; ""Informative Interviewing""; ""Callbacks""; ""Brush-Offs""; ""Chapter 10: Laboring Legally""; ""Public Interest Jobs""; ""Government Agencies""; ""Judicial Clerkships""; ""Law Firms"" |
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""In-House Corporate Counsels""""Educational Endeavors""; ""Pro Bono Law""; ""Occupational Alternatives""; ""Section Six: Third Year""; ""Chapter 11: The Last Mile""; ""The Bar Exam""; ""Outside the Test""; ""Other Stressful Stuff""; ""Soothing Thoughts""; ""Nonfatal Failure""; ""Bar None""; ""What Next?""; ""Section Seven: After School""; ""Chapter 12: What You Really Learn in Law School""; ""Objective Thinking: The Key to being a Competent Attorney""; ""Speaking like a Lawyer""; ""Looking at Life in Real Terms""; ""Walking the Line""; ""Comfort Zone""; ""Gender Benders"" |
| Notes |
""Perceptive Blindness"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Law -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation
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Law students -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Law students.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781572483743 |
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1572483741 |
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