Law Resources
Spotlight
- Law Preview - great pre-1L "boot camp" to get you ready for the first year of law school
- Ask Anna - advice column written by Anna for Vault.com
- The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions: Straight Advice on Essays, Resumes, Interviews, and More by Anna Ivey - a cost-effective way to get the inside scoop, useful to clients and non-clients alike.
Law School Rankings
Take any ranking with a big grain of salt...
- US News Rankings
- Leiter Rankings
- The Law School Rankings Game
- Vault Rankings
- New! The Deadwood Report
About Law School
- The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions: Straight Advice on Essays, Resumes, Interviews, and More
- Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience
- Planet Law School: What You Need to Know (Before You Go) But Didn't Know to Ask
- The Complete Law School Companion: How to Excel at America's Most Demanding Post-Graduate Curriculum
- Acing Your First Year of Law School: The Ten Steps to Success You Won't Learn in Class
- Slaying the Law School Dragon: How to Survive (And Thrive) in First-Year Law School
- The Law School Trip (The Insider's Guide to Law School)
- Letters from Law School: The Life of a Second-Year Law Student
- Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law
About the Practice of Law
- Should You Really Be a Lawyer? The Guide to Smart Career Choices Before, During & After Law School
- The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide
- What Law School Doesn't Teach You, But You Really Need to Know
- The Official Guide to Legal Specialties
- Proceed With Caution: A Diary of the First Year at One of America's Largest, Most Prestigious Law Firms
- America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree & How to Make the Most of Any Job, No Matter Where It Is
- Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair
- Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think About Their Firms
- Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession
- Full Disclosure: The New Lawyer's Must-Read Career Guide
- The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree
- What Can You Do With a Law Degree? A Lawyer's Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside & Around the Law
- Alternative Careers for Lawyers
- Guerrilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams
- "Those Unhappy, Unhealthy Lawyers"
- "The Truth About the Billable Hour" (from Yale Law School's Career Development Office)
Pre-Law Reading
- Benjamin Cardozo's The Nature of the Judicial Process
- Allan Farnsworth's Introduction to the Legal System of the United States
- Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Path of the Law
- Edward Levi's An Introduction to Legal Reasoning
- Roscoe Pound's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law
