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1L of a Ride
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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. Legal education continues to evolve and so does this classic work. Told in an accessible first-person voice, covered topics in this updated, revised, and expanded fourth edition include pre-planning, top student fears, the first-year curriculum, the Socratic and case methods of teaching, effective class participation, the top habits of successful students, essential study techniques, legal research and writing, exam strategies, maintaining well-being, online learning, career planning, and much more. Combines comments from hundreds of 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 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, as well as 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 also 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.
First-Year Law Students' Exam Success
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Taking the California First Year Law Students Exam (FYLSX)? The book is for you! This is your success companion to passing the FYLSX and getting on with law school! The FYLSX tests criminal law, torts, and contracts, in essay and multiple choice formats. You will find the rules for all three tested subjects (torts, contracts, and criminal law) along with practice essays in West Academic's Step-by-Step Guides to Torts, Contracts, and Criminal Law (sold separately). And, you will find practice multiple choice questions and detailed explanatory answers in the AdaptiBar® FYLSX course (sold separately). This book, along with the Step-by-Step Guides and Adaptibar, gives you everything you need to: 1) learn or review the law, 2) engage with high quality practice tests, and 3) find the motivation and inspiration to study, the strategies to overcome challenges, and the techniques to help you achieve your success goals. The FYLSX is one of the most difficult exams around and you need to do a lot in order to pass. The sooner you understand the rules of this game, the easier it will be. If you are in law school and getting ready to take California's First Year Law Students Exam (FYLSX), this book is written for you and to you. The FYLSX isn't just another test, and it is certain not a "baby" anything, though some call it "baby bar." This book will provide training tips to get you ready for success and push you to do your very best on this tough exam. This book will also help families, friends, spouses, and partners understand just how stressful and time consuming the FYLSX really is and do their part in helping you to pass. Wherever you are in the process, if you are facing your first FYLSX or if you have taken it before, make this your last FYLSX! You can do it. And, FYLSX Success will help get you there!
Happiness and Peak Performance in Law School
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Wouldn't it be amazing if you could enhance your happiness and cognitive firepower? If you could reduce your law school stress and expand your resilience, self-confidence, and overall joyfulness? What if your mind could be clearer, more focused, and flat-out better at learning, reading, outlining, memorizing, public speaking, exam-taking, decision-making, and various other law school competencies? If this interests you, then this book is for you. In this book, law students will learn a wide collection of easy-to-apply, science-based tools for drastically improving their emotional well-being, mental strength, and academic success. Law school can be overwhelming and demoralizing at times, but now law students can feel equipped and empowered to overcome the inevitable challenges of this intense environment. This book provides a roadmap for thriving mentally, emotionally, and cognitively in law school, in the practice of law, and in life.