Resource Guide for First Year Law Students: A Selective Bibliography

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Coping General Interest Study

Coping

• The Law School Survival Guide
  Jungle Media Group
• What You Should Know Before Your First Day of Law School
  [Video and Study Guide]
• Planet Law School: what you need to know (before you go)...but didn't know to ask
  Atticus Falcon
• Slaying the Law School Dragon: How to Survive--and Thrive--in First Year Law School
  George Roth
• Going to Law School?: Everything You Need to Know to Choose and Pursue a Degree in Law
  Harry Castleman and Christopher Niewoehner
• Starting Off Right in Law School
  Carolyn J. Nygren
• Law School Confidential
  Robert H. Miller
• Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success
  Helene Shapo and Marshall Shapo
• The Complete Law School Companion
  Jeff Deaver

General Interest

• Looking at Law School: A Student Guide from the Society of Law School Teachers
  Stephen Gillers, ed.
• From Here to Attorney: The Ultimate Guide to Excelling in Law School and Launching Your Legal Career
  J. Robert Arnett II, et al.
• Student Lawyer
• A Woman's Guide to Law School
  Linda Hirshman
• Bramble Bush
  Karl Llewellyn

Study

• The Study and Practice of Law, 3d ed
  Kenny Hegland/West Nutshell Series
• How to Study Law and Take Law Exams
  Ann M. Burkhart and Robert A. Stein/West Nutshell Series
• Getting to Maybe : How to Excel on Law School Exams
  Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul
• Ballantine's Problems in Law for Law School and Bar Examination Review: A Collection of Concrete Problems with Solutions Covering Principal Legal Topics
  William E. Burby, ed.
• Law School Orientation: cases and materials
  John Makdisi