Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Stude

Description: Law School Confidential by Robert H. Miller, Professor Robert H. Miller Now fully revised and updated, this is the must-have guidebook for any student about to embark on the three-year odyssey of law school. This edition includes updates on the economy, salary ranges, interviews with hiring partners at law firms and directors of law school admissions, and more. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description I WISH I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW! Dont get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience--read this book! Written by students, for students, Law School Confidential has been the "must-have" guide for anyone thinking about, applying to, or attending law school for more than a decade. And now, in this newly revised third edition, its more valuable than ever. This isnt the advice of graying professors or battle-scarred practitioners long removed from law school. Robert H. Miller has assembled a blue-ribbon panel of recent graduates from across the country to offer realistic and informative firsthand advice about what law school is really like. This updated edition contains the very latest information and strategies for thriving and surviving in law school--from navigating the admissions process and securing financial aid, choosing classes, studying and exam strategies, and securing a seat on the law review to getting a judicial clerkship and a job, passing the bar exam, and much, much more. Newly added material also reveals a sea change that is just starting to occur in legal education, turning it away from the theory-based platform of the previous several decades to a pragmatic platform being demanded by the rigors of todays practices. Law School Confidential is a complete guide to the law school experience that no prospective or current law student can afford to be without. Author Biography ROBERT H. MILLER graduated from Yale University in 1993 and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in May 1998, where he served as senior editor of the Law Review. After graduation, he served a prestigious federal court clerkship, and is now an attorney at the well-known New England law firm Sheehan, Phinney, Bass & Green, where he specializes in constitutional, intellectual property, and business litigation. Review "A useful and worthwhile book." --NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL "A helping hand for legal neophytes...Offers future attorneys a glimpse into a three-year experience they may have only seen in movies." --THE RECORDER "Solid, tested advice, eloquently delivered with humor and style." --LAW PREVIEW BOOK REVIEW "Walks the reader from the decision to go to law school through the bar exam. . . a useful, worthwhile book." --NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL "Miller has decorously armed his readers. . . excellent advice." --THE DOCKET "This abundance of information is just the remedy for the nerves of a student anxious to enter law school. . ." --JOURNAL OF THE DENVER BAR ASSOCIATION "This book is a must for anyone attending or thinking about law school." --THE HOUSTON LAWYER "Pulls no punches in providing revealing and honest advice for all three years of the law school experience..." --LAW PREVIEW Review Quote Walks the reader from the decision to go to law school through the bar exam. . . a useful, worthwhile book. Excerpt from Book CHAPTER 1 Thinking About Law School? Think Again … Know thyself. -SOCRATES THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE of advice that can possibly be given to you, the prospective law student, is simple. Surprisingly, perhaps, it has nothing to do with how to study or how to write a good exam. It is not about how to glean wisdom from the dusty pages of the U.S. Supreme Court opinions that shaped our country, or how to make the law review, or how to impress an employer in a job interview. Those things are important, but theyre all secondary. The most important advice that you can get as a prospective law student isnt even about law school. Its about you-and it can be summed up succinctly but completely with a single word. Commit. Thats it. "To carry into action deliberately." Commit. Show up for your first day of law school with only a vague notion of why youre there-without a clear set of reasons for putting yourself through the punishment youre about to endure-and youll be setting yourself up for a miserable and unfulfilling three years. Show up committed, with a well thought-out set of goals supported by reasons for attaining them, and the experience can be exhilarating. The choice is yours. You picked up this book looking for answers, or maybe a "quick fix" that will put you ahead of your competitors in the rough-and-tumble world of law school. You have it in one word: commit. Thats it. Dont "decide" to go to law school. Dont "try" law school. Commit to law school. That is the pure axiom of law school success. Commit, or forget it-for in law school, to quote the ancient Jedi master Yoda, "there is no try." Still with me? Now … about the cocky guy next to you who just put this book back on the shelf with a "Hrumph" after reading these first few paragraphs-dont worry about him. Thats the overconfident guy who will spend the first weeks of law school casually reading cases, partying in the bars, and teasing you about studying too much. Learn to love that guy because hes someone youre going to flog on your first-semester finals. Trust me on that because I used to know that guy. He was me. Step number one on the road to your commitment to law school is to ask yourself one critical question. Why do you want to go to law school? No really. Think about it. Whats driving you? Force yourself to come up with an answer. Now be honest. Does your answer, or something like it, appear on this list? because my mom/dad/sibling/relative/friend is a lawyer because I took the LSAT and got a good score because Im not good at science and wouldnt be able to get into med school because lawyers make good salaries and have financial and/or job security because most of the people at my school are applying to law/med school because I watch Law & Order reruns and think theyre interesting because Ive read all of John Grishams novels and find them fascinating because I dont know what else to do and law is a respectable profession because my parents/relatives/teachers/friends think Im a "born lawyer" Okay. So if your rationale for going to law school appears above, all is not lost. It just means that you need to rethink your motivations because these just arent going to cut it for you. Lets dispel some illusions. My relative the lawyer made me do it First of all, what is it about your parent/sibling/friend the lawyer that makes you want to follow him into his profession? Is it the money? The prestige? Do you even know whether this person is happy practicing law? Have you asked him lately? More important, have you ever followed this person through a typical day-or even better, a typical week? Ever ask this person what he likes least about the law, or about how much time he spends in court compared to how much time he spends with his nose buried in the books? Ever ask how long it took him to make partner, or how many hours a week he had to work to become partner? Ever ask him how much time he gets to spend with his kids, on his hobbies, or exercising? How her relationships are with her family and friends? These are revealing questions that may help you explore a career in law more realistically. Ask them before you romanticize your relative the lawyer. I cant ignore this amazing LSAT score, can I? Why not? The LSAT is allegedly an aptitude test that predicts how well youll do in law school, but the accuracy of this correlation is controversial and much debated. A good LSAT score is a tremendous asset when applying to law schools. A whole chapter in this book is devoted to teaching you how to get the best possible score. However, the test bears almost no resemblance to what youll be doing in law school, and even less to the actual practice of law. Both law school and law practice require well-developed research and writing skills, and to a lesser extent, oral advocacy proficiency, none of which is tested on the LSAT. No legal concepts are tested on the LSAT, which is basically a souped-up, trickier SAT. Yet some would use a good LSAT score to justify law as a career choice. A good LSAT score may bring you to the dance, but its no guarantee that youll be happy to be there. I dont have a mind for science, so … Otherwise known as the old "I cant be a doctor because I couldnt hack orgo, so I might as well be a lawyer" rationale. Trust me, I get it … I took orgo twice myself, but seriously, wheres the logic in that argument? Were not playing the game of Life here-this is the real thing. Contrary to the beliefs of many, there are other career choices besides law, medicine, and investment banking. Maybe you should explore some of them. Take a year off to travel, learn a language, teach, write, or work for a nonprofit or volunteer organization. Start your own business. Think a little and figure out what it is that you like to do. Dont just fall into this ridiculous mind trap and go straight for the law school applications because all your friends are doing it. To quote your mom, "If all your friends jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge…" Its the economy, stupid This is one of the biggest misconceptions of all. If youre going into law because you think its your road to riches, stop and go directly to business school or ignore the advice in the last section and become an I-banker. Thats where the real money is. While associates in big-city law firms do make six-figure salaries right out of law school, in a good year I-bankers at comparably large investment firms commonly make that much in their holiday bonus. Similarly, a successful business idea can bring you a partner-level salary two or three years after start-up, not to mention stock options, a flexible work schedule, and the pleasure of being your own boss. Remember this-the average lawyers salary in the United States is still only about $40,000 per year. Sure, partners at big-city firms may pull down over a million a year … but those big salaries generally belong only to the real rainmakers, and it may have taken even them fifteen to twenty years of eighty-hour weeks, two failed marriages, and a heart attack to get there. Clients dont just grow on trees or fall out of the sky. You have to earn the right to represent clients, and that takes serious time and effort. Meanwhile, the prosecutors youve romanticized from television or the novels youve read may make as little as $25,000 a year while working the same hours. So dont kid yourself. A career in law does provide some job security and a good assurance that you and your family wont starve on the streets, but if money is your primary motivator, there are much easier ways to make your millions. This aint Hollywood, son That brings us to the unspoken reason why many people go to law school-the secret longing to be Tom Cruise in The Firm , Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird , Sam Waterston in Law & Order . Unfortunately, this too is a romanticized notion of the law. Most lawyers never make guest appearances on CNN or get to parade secret, star witnesses into court to the gasps of the gallery. The vast majority of cases settle before trial, and the work between intake and settlement is a long, private grind of discovery battles, document review, motion practice, and many hours spent reading, writing, and thinking far from the limelight. If your aspirations about law school center on supercharged days before a jury and invitations to appear on national television after your latest victory, its time to wake up to the reality of what the practice of law is really like. Most lawyers, even the really good ones, typically toil in the state and lower federal courts, often on mundane legal issues. Most lawyers will never argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, and an appearance before a circuit court of appeals or a chance to break new legal ground may only occur once or twice in a career. Thats not to say that your days as a lawyer wont be interesting or intellectually challenging. Many of them will be. But they wont be like what you see in the movies. Finally, Details ISBN0312605110 Author Professor Robert H. Miller Language English Edition 3rd ISBN-10 0312605110 ISBN-13 9780312605117 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title LAW SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL 3/E Residence NH, US Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-04-26 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2011-04-26 NZ Release Date 2011-04-26 US Release Date 2011-04-26 UK Release Date 2011-04-26 Pages 432 Publisher St Martins Press Edition Description 3rd Revised, Updated ed. Imprint St Martins Press Subtitle A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students DEWEY 340.071173 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:36444408;

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