Law School Companion

by Paul M. Lisnek, Steven I. Friedland, Steven Friedland

This new guide combines expert academic advice with candid observations and survival tips based upon The Princeton Review's national student surveys, the largest annual campus surveys in the country.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679761500
• ISBN13: 9780679761501
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Advice from a NILE veteran...and sympathetic young attorney

I have read this book and know the authors. I know them because I attended the NILE program for several years before attending law school. Whether you buy this book and use it like a bible in law school or only buy it as a perusal of "what's to come" in law school, you should unquestionably get your hands on a NILE application and invest the money to go sometime before you begin law school. The authors of this book are dedicated to educating America's aspiring attorneys, and those who are "just looking" at the profession. As a successful law school graduate and second year associate at a great firm I can tell anyone considering law school that NILE is the single best preparatory experience you can find before actually going to law school. By the way, outlines are important for studying for exams. So if you're tempted to write off the book because of its concentration on course outlines...you'll be grateful for the guide when you're sitting in your apartment two weeks before exams and everyone is talking about their "study outlines." At that point, feeling lost and alone, open this book and thank the authors for a road map to your first outline. And remember, no book can make law school easy...if it could, we attorneys wouldn't grin in knowing sympathy when you, the law student, tell us how tough it is, and how confused you felt during those first few months. You don't need a book, you need a simple roadmap...and this is a roadmap. What you fill in along the way will be your "law school experience."

experience over book knowledge

Please know that there are countless books which try to tell entering law school students about what to expect, how to deal with adversity, and reveal various strategies for success in law school. While this book is very effective about revealing the basic facts of law school, every future law school student must realize that there is no ONE set way to prepare for law school. If there were, there would be one book by one author and it would be the final word. But law school is not that way, life is not that way. Every person will have a unique experience in law school. If you are looking for a book to calm your nerves and make you feel more secure about what the next three years have in store for you, this book is right for you. But keep in mind that your experience will ultimately prevail over knowledge you gain from a book. I am entering my third year in law school, and the advice I recieved from other law students helped me more than any "help-book" did. My advice is for a prospective student to buy a variety of books to see different takes on law school. Include this book, then find a book by a law school graduate and get a book by a current law student. By seeing law school through different perspectives, you will be better prepared to have YOUR EXPERIENCE, and that one is the most important.