Pre-law resources, reading list, and links

The legal profession

• So You Want to Be a Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Law as a Career, Revised Edition. Law Services (LSAC)
• Nonlegal Careers for Lawyers. Gary Munneke and William Henslee.
• The Official Guide to Legal Specialties: An Insider’s Guide to Every Major Practice Area, Lisa Abrams.
• Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to be a lawyer? (1992). Susan Bell, ed.
• Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer’s Must Read Career Guide (2001), Christin Civiletto Carey.
• What Can You Do With A Law Degree? (1994), Deborah Arron.
• The Lure of the Law (1990), Richard Moll.
• My First Year As a Lawyer (1996), Mark Simenoff.
• Double Billing: A Young Lawyer’s Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair (1999), Cameron Stracher.
• Lawful Pursuit: Careers in Public Interest Law, Ronald W. Fox.

LSAT preparation

• http://www.lsatnow.com (an on-line prep service)
• http://www.kaplan.com
• http://www.princetonreview.com/law/default.asp
• http://www.testmaster180.com
• http://www.petersons.com/testprep.asp?id=884&path=gr.pft.lsat
• http://www.lsatexampracticetests.com
• Powerscore
• GRE-LSAT Logic Workbook On-line tutorial

The law school application process

• http://www.lsac.org The Law School Admission Council website
• Essays That Will Get You Into Law School
• Law School Insider:  The Comprehensive 21st Century Guide to Success in Admissions
• Getting into Law School Today, 3rd ed. (1998), Thomas Martinson and David Waldherr
• How to Get Into the Top Law Schools (2001), Richard Montauk

Paying for law school

• Financing Your Law School Education, Law Services (LSAC)

Law schools

• The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools, 2006 edition, Law Services
• http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/
  law/brief/lawrank_brief.php
• http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/
• U.S. News & World Report’s Top 100 Law Schools

The law school experience

• Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success
• One L:  The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School (1977), Scott Turow.
• Letters From Law School: The Life of a Second-Year Law Student (2000), Lawrence Dieker
• Planet Law School:  What You Need to Know (Before You Go) . . . But Didn’t Know to Ask (1998), Atticus Falcon
• Law School Basics: A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning (1999), David Hricik
• Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (1999), Richard Kahlenberg
• The Complete Law School Companion: How to Excel at America’s Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum (1992), Jeffrey Deaver
• How to Succeed in Law School (1994), Gary Munneke
• Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success (1996), Marshall Shapo and Helene Shapo
• The Princeton Review Prelaw Companion: What law school Grads With They Know Before They Started (1996), Amy Zavatta ed.

Other general pre-law links

• http://www.ilrg.com  The Internet legal resource guide
• http://www.abanet.org/legaled/prelaw.html The ABA pre-law page
• http://www.napil.org/choose/index.php?view=detail&id=5575 for students interested in practicing public interest law