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Title: Planet Law School: What You Need to Know (Before You Go), But Didn't Know to Ask... and No One Else Will Tell You, Second Edition by Atticus Falcon ISBN: 1-888960-50-7 Publisher: The Fine Print Pr Ltd Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.62 (94 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: You've got to be kidding me...
Comment: As a lawyer who advises pre-law students, please let me implore you to take this book, like any one person's advice, with a grain of salt. There are some solid points in the book, but they are buried under quite a bit of less than stellar advice. I never saw a correlation between those who "seriously" prepared in advance of law school and actual law school success. The people who served on law review with me didn't try to learn the substantive law before taking the class. We used study aids and wrote outlines, but also always bought the case books. As another reviewer noted, you're going to need to read the cases when you're doing research in practice, so you'd better learn to read them on your own when you're in school. Besides, nothing pissed off a prof like catching someone using Glannons or Case Notes to respond to their questions.
I know that this review and the others like it won't stop most of you from buying the book, but do yourselves a favor and talk to actual law students and younger lawyers as well. The advice in this book isn't reflective of what happened in my law school or the law schools of friends I surveyed.
Rating: 4
Summary: THIS BOOK HELPED ME...I graduate this week!!!!!!
Comment: Well, I didn't make it to the top of my class and I am at a Fourth Tier school. But, I just wanted my law degree and am not all hung up on the 1st tier, 2nd tier crap. The only thing I don't recommend is taking the LEEWS course--that was a rip off to me. Also, I am somewhat of a slacker...so if you are a slacker and just need to get by, this is what worked for me. After all, I came in realizing that the attrition rate for 1L is about 30%. I wasn't about to be flunked out...so I did whatever I needed to do to get by. (p.s. my entire peer group flunked out the first year and they read, brief cases and so on...I never did that).
I hate to say it, but Atticus was right with a lot of negativity. Some of my fellow law students are the most atrocious backstabbing mofos I have ever encountered. My advice is to stick to yourself and develop a tight knit group of friends. Just watch your back.
1. Use Emanuels, Gilberts, Sum & Substance or whatever commercial outline you feel comfortable with. I have read very few casebooks and have made comparable grades.
2. Buy a laptop and take it to class. Attend class and type notes.
3. Make your own outline(s). This was crucial to me. Yes, I used Emanuels, but I also made my outlines and spent a lot of time using concepts in class and even some cases to illustrate the main points.
4. I have approximately a B- average. I really did not do much other than what I did above.
5. Take legal skills courses such as legal clinic, trial practice, pretrial practice, arbitration, and mediation. It is important to get real world type experience because law school just teaches you how to be a law student...but not a lawyer. That is pretty scary. After all, medical students are trained for their profession and then they have a residency. Law school is about learning subjects. Hopefully you will pass the bar. But--you will not learn how to be a lawyer unless you get real world experience. Start that in your 2L year.
6. Don't be a jerk to other students. It will bite you in the A** eventually. I have seen many backstabbing, evil students in my time here. But--you don't have to be that way. Law isn't about being evil to others. It's about being an advocate for your clients by doing research and making good faith arguments. This profession needs more ethical people.
Rating: 1
Summary: Correcting the Correction Below
Comment: Just a quick note to correct the person who misread my review below. I said the author suggests that students not BUY THE CASE BOOKS -- not sure how the person below got out of that that I said the author suggested students not read CASES (it would be pretty hard to pass your first year of law school w/o reading the cases, since law school is either case or statute driven exclusively). Hope the reviewer correcting my review doesn't read statutes like s/he reads reviews or his/her clients are in big trouble.
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Title: Law School Confidential : A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience by Robert H. Miller ISBN: 031224309X Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 14 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Law of Torts: Examples and Explanations by Joseph W. Glannon ISBN: 0735511918 Publisher: Panel Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy R. Paul ISBN: 0890897603 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Contracts: Examples and Explanations by Brian A. Blum ISBN: 0735519641 Publisher: Panel Publishing Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class by Shana Connell Noyes, Henry S. Noyes ISBN: 0837709121 Publisher: William s Hein & Co Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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