Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class, 2nd Edition - Softcover

Noyes, Shana Connell; Noyes, Henry S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0837714109 ISBN 13: 9780837714103

Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Law school attendance continues to rise each year. As more and more students enter law school, it becomes even harder to stand out in the crowd of other students. This book will teach you how to stand head and shoulders above your colleagues in law school, and succeed in your most critical year of law school, the first year.

From the Back Cover:

Ask every law student you know, and each of them will tell you the same thing--the first year of law school is harder than the other two years combined. Why is that? Because law schools follow the "Socratic Method." Under the Socratic Method, law professors do not teach students the law. Instead, they leave you on your own to figure out what you are supposed to learn. After months of confusion, students finally realize that the study of law requires ten basic skills. But by the time you realize this, exams are looming and you have no time to prepare.

Finally, here is a how to manual that teaches you these ten skills so you can start learning your very first day of law school. From how to read and brief a case to how to write exam answers, the ten chapters, set up as lessons, teach you how to study the law so you can beat the Socratic Method and ace your first year of law school.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fred B Rothman & Co
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0837714109
• ISBN 13: 9780837714103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 150