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Contents

• LSAT
• Admissions
• Advice for during Law School
• BarristerBooks.com -- Online Bookstore for Law Students! (textbooks, study guides, and more!)
• Career
• Legal non-fiction
• Legal Writing
• Reference
• Trial Practice
• Supreme Court Scholarship
• Cartoons and humor

LSAT

• Peterson's LSAT Success, by Thomas O. White, from Peterson's (this is an older version, but follow links to the current LSAT section.)
• LSAT 1998-99 from Stanley Kaplan, book and CD-Rom
• Kaplan: 2 LSATs Explained
• Cracking the LSAT With Sample Tests on CD-Rom from Princeton Review, book and CD-Rom
• Everything You Need to Score High on the LSAT from Arco
• test.com's LSAT section has unofficial practice tests

Admissions

• The Official Guide to U.S. Law Schools (2000)
• Barron's Guide to Law Schools, 14th Edition, published 2000 (if not available, try the 1998 one)
• Getting Into Law School Today
• Planet Law School : What You Need to Know (Before You Go)...but Didn't Know to Ask
• The Gourman Report : A Rating of Graduate and Professional Programs in American and International Universities (8th Ed), 1997

Advice for during Law School

• The Complete Law School Companion : How to Excel at America's Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum, by Jeff Deaver
• Eight Secrets: Top Exam Performance in Law School, by Charles H. Whitebread
• Introduction to Legal Reasoning
• Law School Basics : A Preview of Law School and Legal Reasoning

Career

• America's Greatest Places to Work with A Law Degree & How to Make the Most of Any Job, No Matter Where It Is
• Jobs for Lawyers : Effective Techniques for Getting Hired in Today's Legal Marketplece
• Judgement Reversed: Alternative Careers for Lawyers
• Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams
• The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree
• So You Want to Be a Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Law As a Career

Legal non-fiction

• Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy, by Richard Sobol (paperback version)
• A Civil Action, by Jonathan Harr (paperback version) (audiocassette), about the lawsuit between families in Woburn, Massachusetts and those accused of polluting the water supply and thereby causing an increased rate of leukemia in Woburn. Fascinating book.
• Clay v. United States: Muhammad [sic] Ali Objects to War
• A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial
• Damages: One Family's Struggles in the Legal World of Medicine
• Gideon's Trumpet, by Anthony Lewis, about Gideon v. Wainwright, "How one man, a poor prisoner, took his case to the Supreme Court -- and changed the law of the United States"
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story (about a defendant's 4 trials for murder -- made into a movie) (paperback)
• So Ordered: Making Partner the Hard Way (about the Price Waterhouse sexual discrimination suit)

Legal Writing

• The Elements of Legal Style by Bryan A. Garner
• The Elements of Legal Writing by Martha Faulk, Irving M. Mehler
• Expert Legal Writing by Terri LeClercq
• The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well by Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman
• Writing to Win: The Legal Writer by Steven D. Stark

Reference

• Black's Law Dictionary: Deluxe Thumb Indexed version
• Merriam-Webster's Legal Dictionary
• MedifocusLegal.com offers medical topic guides for lawyers.

Trial Practice

• Objections At Trial by Bright, Imwinkelrield, and Carlson.
• Pocket Proof of Facts by Ron Carlson (hard to find; the link takes you to a used book search, which did not have it last time I checked)

Supreme Court Scholarship

• American Constitutional Scholarship by Laurence Tribe
• First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life by Kenneth Starr. "an engaging portrait of the nine Justices and their major Supreme Court decisions"
• By What Right? by Louis Lusky, professor emeritus at Columbia Law School.
• Our Nine Triubunes: The Supreme Court in Modern America, also by Louis Lusky.

Cartoons and humor

• The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons (also see the miniature edition)
• See You Later, Litigator (Peanuts at Work and Play), by Charles M. Schulz

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