About To Start Law School?

Summer is coming to an end and school year is about to start. The fall semester at Pace Law School starts next week when we welcome the incoming class of first year law students. Students often wonder what the experience will be like, how can they succeed, how can they survive?

Perhaps the following materials will be of assistance (all available at Pace Law Library):

Andrew J. McClurg, 1L Of a Ride: A Well-traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School (2009).

Shana Connell Noyes & Henry S. Noyes, Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class (2d ed. 2008).

Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (4th ed. 2010).

Ruta K. Stropus & Charlotte D. Taylor, Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success (2d ed. 2009).

Peter T. Wendel, Deconstructing Legal Analysis: a 1L Primer (2009).

Albert J. Moore and David A Binder, Demystifying the First Year of Law School: A Guide to the 1L Experience (2010).

Austen L. Parrish, Cristina C. Knolton, Hard-nosed Advice From a Cranky Law Professor: How to Succeed in Law School (2010).

Gary A. Munneke, How to Succeed in Law School (4th ed. 2008).

Nancy B. Rapoport and Jeffrey D. Van Niel, Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam (2010).

Charles H. Whitebread, The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School: An Easy-to-use, Step-by-step Approach for Achieving Great Grades (2d ed. 2008).

When it will be time to prepare for final exams in the end of the first semester, the library also has the following materials:

• Strategies and Tactics by Walton and Emanuel
• Strategies and Tactics by Finz
• Questions and Answers Series
• Examples and Explanations Series
• Hornbooks, Nutshells, and Understanding Series

For more assistance and additional materials, you can also view Guide to First-Year Law Students compiled by Cynthia Pittson, the Head of Reference.