Succeeding in First Year - Advice from the Stacks

Last week ZiefBrief offered up some blogs on surviving the first year of law school. This week, it's on to the venerable medium of print for yet more advice.

Everybody who's ever been to law school will be happy to inundate you with well-intentioned (and sometimes conflicting) ideas about how to get through the next three (or four) years. This impulse is so strong in some that there's nothing for it but to write a book. The upshot: the Zief Library has more than a few books purporting to unlock the secret of law school success.

We've listed lots of of them (covering general advice, reading & analysis, research & writing, and taking exams) in our research guide Succeeding in Law School [PDF; 2 pages; 112K].

To give you a flavor of what's available, here are a couple of typical titles, with Zief Library call numbers showing our shelf locations:

• Atticus Falcon, Planet Law School II: What You Need to Know (Before You Go) — But Didn’t Know to Ask, and No One Else Will Tell You (Fine Print Press, c2003) KF 283 .F35 2003 LAW STACKS
• The Editors of JD Jungle, Law School Survival Guide (Jungle Media Group/Perseus Pub., c2003) KF 283 .L375 2003 LAW STACKS
• Helene S. Shapo & Marshall Shapo, Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success (Foundation Press, 2002) KF 283 .S53 2002 LAW STACKS
• Patrick M. McFadden, A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis: Thinking Like a Lawyer (Aspen Law & Business, c2001) KF 283 .M396 2001 LAW STACKS
• John C. Dernbach, A Practical Guide to Writing Law School Essay Exams (F.B. Rothman, 2001) KF 283 .D47 2001 LAW STACKS