Legal School

Each year, over 40,000 new students enter America's law schools. Each new crop experiences high rates of depression, anxiety, fatigue, and dissatisfaction. Kathryne Young was one of those students and set out to learn more about the law school experience and how to improve it for future students. Combining her own observations and experiences with the results of her study and the latest sociological research on law schools, Young offers a very different take from previous books about law school survival.

This LSAT Question and Answer Edition from the Davidson's is a premier audiobook crafted to elevate your preparation for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). This guide is designed for aspirants who aim to excel in all aspects of the LSAT, including Logical Reasoning, Reading Comprehension, and the Writing Sample.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Law School Admission Test (LSAT). The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the LSAT. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are quizzes and key takeaways sections following each chapter to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

"Master Legal Vocabulary & Terminology" provides a structured framework under which law students, lawyers and other law professionals can significantly improve their knowledge of legal vocabulary and terminology. You will be taken through the main vocabulary and grammar structures in commercial contracts and allowed to practice them through highly targeted vocabulary and grammar activities, which aim to develop, not only your lexical and grammatical skills, but also your confidence and overall competence within international legal settings.

You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbook in preparation for the LSAT exam. However, the truth is that the LSAT exam is a challenging test. Thorough preparation cannot be overlooked. That is why the author Dennis Reed developed the LSAT Study Guide!. This edition is a practice questions edition. It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam, from all categories of the test. You can listen to it while at the gym or stuck in traffic!

Attorney Scott Ellis is defending Lester Garrison, a 16-year-old accused of opening fire one Sunday afternoon on a gathering of high-school students. While fighting for Lester's freedom, Scott volunteers at Catawba High School and stumbles onto a tangible evil that is fueling a rage-filled hate to its breaking point.

As with any specialized field, the language and terminology used in the legal profession can be complex and specific. Without a solid grasp of legal terminology, it can be difficult for law students to understand the material they are studying, communicate effectively with their professors and classmates, and ultimately practice law with confidence. Vocabulary for Law Students will increase your ability in these areas with legal words of varying difficulty.

Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. But it's not the worst thing that can happen to a person; as Dorn says, law school was pretty "cushy" and mostly entailed wearing leggings every day to her classes at Berkeley and playing beer pong with her friends at night. After graduation, however, Dorn realized that there was nothing sexy about being a lawyer. Between the unflattering suits, sucking up to old men, and spending her days sequestered in a soul-sucking cubicle, Dorn quickly learned that being a lawyer wasn't everything Hollywood made it out to be.

A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm’s wealthiest suburb. Eighteen-year-old Maja Norberg is charged for her involvement in the massacre that left her boyfriend and her best friend dead. She has spent nine months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. How did Maja — popular, privileged, and a top student — become a cold-blooded killer in the eyes of the public? What did Maja do? Or is it what she failed to do that brought her here?

Law school doesn’t teach you how to get a job. This Book Does. It arms you with a fresh perspective from students who landed great legal jobs. These personal, enlightening stories and the insight they reveal form the foundation of a straightforward six-step process to take control of your career path and professional advancement, starting in law school, and create multiple job opportunities.

When a massacre at an elite private high school leaves 17 dead and a city reeling with horror, Philadelphia assistant district attorney Jessica Black will stop at nothing to find justice for the victims. But doing so will require facing an adversary even more terrifying than the teenage shooter.

Billy Bob Sheldon is a famous Texas criminal attorney that is known for helping innocent people that are wrongly accused by the state. Jack Kershaw is the equally famous former Texas Ranger turned PI that investigates the cases and too often has to provide Billy Bob with some 45 caliber help, because some criminals just don't like to face justice. Billy Bob and Jack defend two pretty young school girls, who are accused of murdering two classmates that had been bullying them.

Millions of American children are trapped in failing public schools because their parents lack the money to send them to private schools or move to better public-school districts.

Journalist Jo Napolitano delves into the landmark case in which the School District of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was sued for refusing to admit older, non-English speaking refugees and sending them to a high-discipline alternative school. In a legal battle that mirrors that of the Little Rock Nine and Brown v. Board of Education, 6 brave refugee students fought alongside the ACLU and Education Law Center to demand equal access.

In this entertaining, easy to listen guide, Charles River Editors' Ivy League team of lawyers, law school students and admissions consultants walks listeners through every step of the application process from A to Z, offering advice on when and how to study for the LSAT, sample LSAT questions, how to deal with LSAC, getting letters of recommendation, writing unique personal statements that will capture admissions councils' attention, and choosing the schools to apply to and attend.

Personal statements can be hard because you have so much freedom. You can basically say anything you want, and that lack of guidance can cause a serious case of writer's block. In situations like this, a little bit of direction can go a long way. Personal Statement Triumph gives you all the tools you'll need to create something that can put you over the edge when it comes time to apply for law school. That's not to say you have to wait until you're done with your LSAT prep to write a personal statement. It can actually be a welcome distraction if you're hitting a wall.