Summer Reading - Preparing for Law School (2008)

Based on ZiefBrief's statistics, many newly-admitted law students spend these summer months mining Google for tips that will help them survive the beginning of law school. We believe that the best way to spend this summer is relaxing and doing something fun that you won't have time for once law school starts, but there's no lack of advice out there if you want it. Lately we've learned of —

• The Wish I Would Have Known blog - advice for law students by law students
• A Very Short Reading List for Incoming 1Ls - from the Law Librarian Blog
• The Summer Before Law School? - from Alan Childress on the Legal Profession Blog

Our previous "Summer Reading" posts have more —

• Summer Reading Before Law School (2007)
• Summer Reading: Bracing Yourself for the First Year of Law School
• Summer Reading Before Law School - Dean Brand's Recommendation

Comments

[Dave]

While I agree that the summer before law school should not be spend reading treatises, my exerience has been that many students show up woefully underprepared on the simple issues of how law school works. Thus, while they are trying to work their way through Contracts and Crim Pro, they are also trying to figure out briefing, the curve, socratic method, OCP, the legal profession, etc. They are also unaware of the demands that will be put on their time during first year, and have not cleared their schedules.

I would recommend that, at a minimum, students buy a copy of "Law School Confidential" and read it a few months before school starts.