Bibliography for Incoming Law Students

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Starting off Right in Law School / Carolyn J. Nygren, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. 

The Zen of Law School Success / Chad Noreuil, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2011. 

Law School Confidential: The Complete Law School Survival Guide: By Students, for Students / Robert H. Miller, New York: St. Martin's Press 2015. 

Succeeding in Law School / Herbert N. Ramy, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2018. 

Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three Years / Ian Gallacher, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. 

Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam / Nancy B. Rapoport and Jeffrey D. Van Niel, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010. 

Hard-nosed Advice from a Cranky Law Professor: How to Succeed in Law School / Austen L. Parrish and Cristina C. Knolton, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. 

Demystifying the First Year of Law School: A Guide to the 1L Experience / Albert J. Moore and David A. Binder, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York, NY: Aspen Publishers, 2010. 

What the L?: 25 Things We Wished We'd Known Before Going to Law School / Kelsey May, Samantha Roberts, and Elizabeth Shelton, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2010. 

1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now / Dennis J. Tonsing, Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein & Co., 2010. 

Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review / by Eugene Volokh, with foreword by Alex Kozinski, St.Paul, MN: Foundation Press, 2016. 

Deconstructing Legal Analysis: A 1L Primer / Peter T. Wendel, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; New York: Aspen Publishers, 2009. 

Law School Labyrinth: A Guide to Making the Most of Your Legal Education / Steven R. Sedberry, New York: Kaplan Publishing, 2015. 

1L of a Ride: A Well-traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School / by Andrew J. McClurg, St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2017. 

Law School Without Fear: Strategies for Success / Helene Shapo, New York, N.Y. : Foundation Press, 2009. 

Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success / Ruta K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2014. 

"Just Trying To Be Human in This Place": Storytelling and Film in the First-Year Law School Classroom / Kate Nace Day & Russell G. Murphy,  39 Stetson Law Review 247 (2009). 

Acing your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success you Won't Learn in Class/ Shana Connell Noyes & Henry S. Noyes, Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 2008. 

Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell / by Kenney F. Hegland, St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2017. 

Making Law Review: A Guide to Mastering the Write-on Competition / by Wes Henricksen, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2017. 

Expert Learning for Law Students / Michael Hunter Schwartz & Manning Paula J Shwartz, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2018. 

The Law Student's Pocket Mentor: From Surviving to Thriving / Ann L. Iijima, Austin: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers, 2007. 

The Hidden Sources of Law School Stress: Avoiding the Mistakes that Create Unhappy and Unprofessional Lawyers / Lawrence S. Krieger, Tallahassee, FL: Krieger, 2015. 

Reading Like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert / Ruth Ann McKinney, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. 

Law School 101: Survival Techniques from Pre-Law to Being an Attorney / R. Stephanie Good, Naperville, Ill.: Sphinx Pub., 2004. 

Law School Survival Guide / from the editors of JD jungle and jdjungle.com, the leading sources of information for lawyers and law students, Cambridge, Mass.: Jungle Media Group/Perseus Pub., 2005. 

Law School Survival Kit / by Jeff Adachi, San Francisco, CA: Survival Series Pub. Co., 2005.

One L by Scott Turow; with a new afterword by the author, New York : Penguin Books, 2017. 

How to Read a Legal Opinion: a Guide for New Law Students, Orin S. Kerr, George Washington University - Law School, posted to SSRN. Also published in The GREEN BAG, An Entertaining Journal of Law, Vol 11, No. 1, p. 51, Autumn 2007. 

Law to Fact: How to Read a Legal Opinion- Podcast

Wish I Would Have Known: Advice from Law Students on How They Would Do Things Over .

JD Law Students Blog: JD candidates at Vermont Law School share their thoughts and experiences. 

Law School Exams: A Guide to Better Grades / Alex Schimel, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2018.

Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School / Barry Friedman, and John C.P. Goldberg, New York: Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2016. 

Movie Therapy for Law Students (and Pre-Law, Paralegal, and related majors): Are you Ready for Law School?: Prepare for law school, final exams, and the bar exam by watching movies! / Sonia J. Buck, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2009. 

Law School Success in a Nutshell: A Guide to Studying Law and Taking Law School Exams, 3rd ed., Burkhart, Ann M. and Stein, Robert A., West Pub. Co., 2017. 

Writing Essay Exams to Succeed (Not Just to Survive) / John C. Dernbach, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007. 

Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams / Richard Michael Fischl and Jeremy Paul, Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2015.