Law school, as anyone who has attended can attest, is an adventure for the entire family, a life-changing experience for all involved. Dozens of help books have been written for new law students, but none for their loved ones, until now. Written by an award-winning professor (author of 1L of a Ride) with wide experience teaching at six law schools, The Companion Text to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law Student provides parents, partners, and other friends and relatives of law students with all the information and tools needed to understand and survive their student s intrepid journey through the highs, lows, and sometimes crazy world of legal education. Filled with comments, anecdotes, and insights from real law students and their loved ones, The Companion Text to Law School explains all the essentials of legal education; explores the psyches of law students (including what they love to talk about, things you should never say to them, their sources of stress, and how law school can change their personalities); and addresses the impact of law school on outside relationships, while giving tips for managing them. The book is written in a lively, reader-friendly voice, bolstered by humor and backed up throughout by academic research.

The Companion Text to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law Student (Academic and Career Success Series)

McClurg, Andrew

Legal Education

West Academic Publishing

1L of a Ride provides a candid step-by-step roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school's crucial first year. Told in an accessible first-person voice, covered topics include top student fears, the first-year curriculum, effective class participation, types of students and professors, essential study techniques, legal research and writing, exam strategies, stress management, and much more. Combines anecdotes, comments from law students, empirical research, and authentic samples of signature documents from the 1L experience: exam questions, Socratic dialogue, and student case-briefs, class notes, and course outlines.

1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School

The first entry in the Contextual Approach Series to comparative law, Practical Global Tort Litigation takes readers on a journey through a tort case in the U.S., Germany, and Argentina. Using a shattering glass food container as the vehicle, the book compares how a prototypical products liability case would be handled in the U.S. common law system and representative civil law nations in Europe and Latin America. The book analyzes from a real world perspective issues such as fact gathering and presentation, expert witnesses, burdens of proof, theories of recovery and defenses, and damages and attorneys' fees.

Practical Global Tort Litigation: United States, Germany and Argentina (Contextual Approach Series)

Koyuncu, Adem

Sprovieri, Luis

Foreign & International Law

Carolina Academic Press

McClurg (a gun-regulation supporter) and Denning (a gun-rights supporter) apply their decades of experience studying firearms policy and gun violence in this balanced, reader-friendly casebook addressing the contentious issues of guns in America. Through cases, problems, and provocative notes and questions, the book explores current federal and state gun laws, major constitutional cases, post-Heller Second Amendment litigation, modern self-defense rules such as Stand Your Ground laws, civil liability, gun laws in other countries, legal solutions to gun violence, and issues of guns and race, alienage, culture, and gender.

Guns and the Law: Cases, Problems, and Explanation

Denning, Brannon

Criminal Law

Now with an accompanying video course!1L of a Ride provides a candid step-by-step roadmap to academic and emotional success in law school’s crucial first year. Narrated in an accessible first-person voice, Professor McClurg weaves together anecdotes, student comments, empirical research, and samples of authentic law school documents (e.g., exam questions, student outlines, class notes) to present a comprehensive picture of the 1L experience. This version comes with an access code to a first-of-its-kind online video course designed to reinforce the reading. These thirteen videos address subjects covered in the book, often from fresh angles, and some new topics. Along with McClurg, the videos feature award-winning law professors Christine Coughlin (Wake Forest University), Meredith Duncan (University of Houston), and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri-Kansas City). Each video is roughly ten minutes, followed by a short self-assessment quiz. They include: 1. Introduction to the Video Course 2. Planning Ahead and Biggest Fears 3. Structure and Role of U.S. Courts 4. Socratic and Case Methods 5. Overview of First-Year Curriculum 6. First-Year Sample Course: Torts 7. How to Read and Brief a Case 8. The C.R.E.D.O.―Top Five Habits of Successful Law Students 9. Essential Study Techniques 10. Legal Research Basics 11. Legal Writing Basics 12. Managing Stress and Maintaining Well-Being 13. Professionalism Research shows students gain not only from reading, but seeing and hearing, in part because video helps accommodate diverse learning styles. Use the videos to enhance comprehension and retention. Studies also show students prefer and benefit from one-on-one facetime with professors, which the videos, while no match for the real thing, can help simulate.

1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, Includes Video Course (Career Guides)

Assigned as required or recommended reading at law schools throughout the country, 1L of a Ride provides a candid, comprehensive roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school's crucial first year. Told in an accessible first-person voice, covered topics in the revised and updated third edition include pre-planning, top student fears, first-year curriculum, the Socratic and case methods of teaching, effective class participation, top habits of successful students, essential study techniques, legal research and writing, exam strategies, maintaining well-being, and much more. Combines anecdotes, comments from law students, empirical research, and authentic samples of signature documents from the 1L experience, including exam questions, Socratic dialogue, and student case-briefs, class notes, and course outlines. McClurg is an award-winning professor who has taught at six different law schools.

1l of a Ride: A Well-traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School (Academic and Career Success Series)

Legal Self-Help

Choosing a legal career that fits a student’s personality, skillset, and aspirations is the most important and difficult decision a law student faces, yet only a small number of law schools incorporate career-planning into their curriculums. Law Jobs: The Complete Guide seeks to fill the gap. Written by three award-winning professors, Law Jobs is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide to every type of legal career. Packed with authoritative research and featuring comments from more than 150 lawyers who do the jobs, Law Jobs offers in-depth exploration of each career option, including general background, pros and cons, day in the life descriptions, job availability, compensation, prospects for advancement, diversity, and how students can best position themselves for opportunities in the field. Covered jobs include: 
<ul>
<li>Large and Medium-Sized Law Firms</li>
<li>Small Firms and Solo Practitioners</li>
<li>In-House and Other Corporate Counsel</li>
<li>Government Agency Lawyers</li>
<li>Non-Governmental Public Interest Law</li>
<li>Prosecutors and Public Defenders</li>
<li>Private Criminal Defense</li>
<li>JD Advantage Jobs</li>
<li>Contract (Freelance) Lawyering</li>
<li>Judges, Mediators, and Arbitrators</li>
<li>Judicial Law Clerks</li>
<li>Legal Academic Jobs</li>
</ul>
 Other chapters address lawyer happiness, the rapidly changing face of the legal profession due to technology and other forces, the division between litigation and transactional law, and the top-50 legal specialty areas. Together, the authors have received more than thirty awards for teaching and research, and have written extensively about law students and lawyers in books such as 1L of a Ride (McClurg), A Lawyer Writes (Coughlin), and The Happy Lawyer (Levit).

Law Jobs: The Complete Guide (Academic and Career Success Series)

Levit, Nancy

Coughlin, Christine

Assigned as required or recommended reading at law schools throughout the country, 1L of a Ride provides a candid, comprehensive roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school’s crucial first year. Told in an accessible first-person voice, covered topics in the revised and updated third edition include pre-planning, top student fears, first-year curriculum, the Socratic and case methods of teaching, effective class participation, top habits of successful students, essential study techniques, legal research and writing, exam strategies, maintaining well-being, and much more. Combines anecdotes, comments from law students, empirical research, and authentic samples of signature documents from the 1L experience, including exam questions, Socratic dialogue, and student case-briefs, class notes, and course outlines. McClurg is an award-winning professor who has taught at six different law schools. This version comes with an access code to a first-of-its-kind online video course designed to reinforce the reading. These thirteen videos address subjects covered in the book, often from fresh angles, and some new topics. Along with McClurg, the videos feature award-winning law professors Christine Coughlin (Wake Forest University), Meredith Duncan (University of Houston), and Nancy Levit (University of Missouri-Kansas City). Each video is roughly ten minutes, followed by a short self-assessment quiz. They include: 1. Introduction to the Video Course 2. Planning Ahead and Biggest Fears 3. Structure and Role of U.S. Courts 4. Socratic and Case Methods 5. Overview of First-Year Curriculum 6. First-Year Sample Course: Torts 7. How to Read and Brief a Case 8. The C.R.E.D.O.―Top Five Habits of Successful Law Students 9. Essential Study Techniques 10. Legal Research Basics 11. Legal Writing Basics 12. Managing Stress and Maintaining Well-Being 13. Professionalism Research shows students gain not only from reading, but seeing and hearing, in part because video helps accommodate diverse learning styles. Use the videos to enhance comprehension and retention. Studies also show students prefer and benefit from one-on-one facetime with professors, which the videos, while no match for the real thing, can help simulate.

1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, Video (Career Guides)

1L of a Ride provides a candid, comprehensive roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school's crucial first year.

1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School (Career Guides)

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Higher & Continuing Education

1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School, With Video Course (Academic and Career Success Series)

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