Law School Insider: The Comprehensive 21st Century Guide

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If you're looking for an easy-to-read, chronological guide to every step of the law school experience, this is the book you need. Written from a student's perspective, rather than that of a professor, Law School Insider answers every important question faced by today’s new law students and their families!

Learn about admissions, each year of classes from 1L to 3L, student organizations (including special sections on law reviews and other journals), job hunting, bar exams, and much more.

Discover modern legal careers and learn how to win jobs with top law firms and judges.

Take an inside look at modern family, gender, racial, and other key issues for today’s students.

Find out how to take classes in Europe and Asia for credit in United States law schools.

Conquer the nation’s toughest bar exams and learn which have the highest pass rates.

Learn all about law reviews, their secret elections, and how to become an editor.

If you need to learn about law school, make certain that Law School Insider by Jeremy B. Horwitz, esq. is at the top of your list!

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28 of 33 people found the following review helpful

Number One on My List of 3 Must-Have Books, September 22, 2003

Mary Ellen Hatcher (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Law School Insider: The Comprehensive 21st Century Guide to Success in Admissions, Classes, Law Review, Bar Exams and Job Searches, for Prospective Students and Their Loved Ones (Paperback)

A little about me: I'm now in my second year of law school and Purchased both Law School Insider and Law School Confidential last year. I wound up keeping only my copy of Law School Insider, which is a newer and more relevant book for me.Now that I've completed my first year, I think that there are three books that every law student should read before (and maybe during) attending law school. The first two are Law School Insider and Getting to Maybe. Getting to Maybe is a good book on exams, and Law School Insider is the best book about the experience and how to prepare.A little about law school: law school is a challenging LEARNING experience. If you want to be a lawyer, you go to law school to learn how to think, how to read, and how to manage your time. It is not just about getting good grades, it is about picking an area of personal specialization and actually learning. Only Law School Insider speaks to both the importance of grades and truly learning a specialty.Besides...Read more

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Easily the best law school book I've read, December 26, 2002

jessica dupre (westchester, ny) - See all my reviews

I bought Law School Insider a few months after starting law school because I was confused by classes but still wanted a shot at glory (good grades and law review). I read it over Thanksgiving and I must say, this is an amazing book! Having been through first semester classes (and exams) myself, I can tell you that this is a completely accurate account of the way things really are in law school. The book's advice helped me to salvage my first semester just in time for exams (fingers crossed for top 10% grades) and has so much insight on how to get what every law student wants next - the right classes, the right job, and a passing bar exam score.Also, this book does a really good job of explaining how law students really handle relationships and family pressures, a topic that was really important to me, and also talks about sensitive issues such as race and gender in law school, job interviewing, and the job market. It is also very good to know how the economy will affect my chances...Read more

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful

The Best Book About Law School!!!, January 18, 2004

By A Customer

As a prospective law school applicant, who will be applying to a Juris Doctor program this year, I read a lot of books about law schools. Law School Insider by Jeremy Horwitz, Esq. (a cum laude graduate of Cornell Law School, who is currently working as an attorney) is by far the best book about a student's life before, during, and after law school. Unlike other books, this book is organized in a straight-forward manner and is well-written. It starts from the Introduction and Preparing for Law School Chapters that guide you through the entire admission process, from selecting a good law school to making educated choices after receiving acceptance letters. Thereafter, the author writes about the first year, memorable first-year summers, two-L, journal elections and intrigue, second-year summers, the third and final year, and the Bar exam. In addition, the book is supplemented by useful Tables on the first-year course schedules across the nation; modern law-related career options and...Read more