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Thriving in Law School, Surviving Legal
Practice
Essays:
- Preparing for Law School See also NILE, below.
- Note that Planet Law School is an updated approach very similar to the one I suggested in the 1980s. The author obviously knows of things I do not and has resources he suggests that I did not even dream of. A good book.
- Alternatives To Law School
- Dear Family of the New Law Student
- Letter to Young Law Student (Professor Corinne Cooper -- intentionally plays on the the Rilke title but is written to all new students regardless of their ages).
- Externships
- Everything your placement office should have told you the moment you weren't in the top 10%.
- Everything you need to know if your career has fallen apart.
- Time Sheet Approach for Survival: Number One
- Dear Family of the New Lawyer
- Limits on the Legal Profession
- Real Reform of Law, Law School and the Legal Profession
- Updates/Comments // More Comments (started December 8, 1998).
- Credit Cards, Etc.
- Local Link to Web Search Engine // Search Engines (with results/examples)
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Pragmatic Reform of Legal
Education
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: A Critical Syllabus (Volume One).
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: A Critical Syllabus (Volume Two).
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: A Critical Syllabus (Volume Three).
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: A Critical Syllabus (Volume Four).
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: A Critical Syllabus (Volume Five).
- Pragmatic Reform of Legal Education: New Horizons (Volume Six)
- Index
- Legal Employment Link Collection
- Bill Pannapacker's thoughts on reforming higher education.
- Jurist On-Line
- BarBri
- NILE (National Institute for Legal Education) at http://www.nilelaw.org/ provides a "prep school" for law school. See also Law PReview to compare -- prep schools for law schools are finally a growth area. Your mileage may vary. www.barbri-nile.com has their materials to help you do well once you are in law school.
- Note that the web is always growing: a great new link: http://lawpreview.com/atticus.html -- good advice, with much more depth than I have here.
- http://www.allrise.com/LAW/SCHOOLS/Deconstruction.html-- the top 25 Law School Web Sites
- UTEP's pre-law program (a surprising success), an informational link, not the official site.
- Practice Tests on-line
- http://www.powerscore.com -- LSAT preparation class. Should you have to choose between Powerscore and Princeton, take them both (I wish I had).
- http://www.getprepped.com -- another LSAT prep company doing much of their class work in law schools and universities. Links section.
- TestMasters -- This group is number one in LSAT prep for California -- with good reason. It has spread to other parts of the country.
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Princeton Review. You
must take a review class for the LSAT and this is a great site.
- Not being able to take a review class is the only thing I regret.
- Princeton Review rates law schools and does it very well.
- Law School Ratings (I disagree with many of his methods, but a good site to visit).
- The National Jurist
- The Electric Law Library Law Student Area
- http://www.lawguru.com/ // Search tools at Law Guru
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"The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival
Guide"
- "A career guide for law students, new lawyers, and individuals considering a career in the law."
- A law school that provides focused "tracked" education: George Mason
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Warnings about Interviews: For Workplace Satisfaction, Lawyers Should Ignore Ads and Law Students Should Ignore On-Campus Interviewing
- An interesting perspective. This is part of a series of articles and materials in a FindLaw forum that is well worth visiting.
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Virtual Headhunter (Career Mall)
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Headhunter Hell -- If you are paying a headhunter to help you find a job, you are being cheated.
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Academic Positions -- if you want to teach law.
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BridgePath - Get Job and internship announcements sent to you for free.
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Virtual Headhunter (P.J. Scout)
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American Lawyer's Consolidated Site (legal newspaper listings)
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Legal Employment Search Site (Gregory J. Hickel)
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Targeted mailing campaigns http://www.findlawjob.com. Some people swear by them, some swear at them.
"Fewer than three out of every 10 jobs are filled through normal channels." IS Survival Guide, Bob Lewis, InfoWorld May 26, 1997.
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