Featuring contemporary information and candid advice, this one-of-a-kind resource is the tool students need to survive and succeed in law school, as well as their future careers.
Law School Revealed is an essential resource for pre-law majors, entering and current law students, and those considering law school. Throughout this guidebook, readers gain indispensible advice for choosing the right law school, minimizing the cost of education, mastering legal research, writing outstanding exams, dousing law school burnout, and much more.
Readers also learn about new initiatives and options in academics and beyond, including issues rarely covered in other books. This insider advice debunks law school myths and teaches readers how to network with professors; use new technology to their advantage; and pursue quality internships, externships, and clerkships.
Part I: Law School Prep
Chapter 1: You’re Doing It—Important Questions to Consider Before You Go
Chapter 2: Financing Law School
Chapter 3: Summer Strategies for Law School Success
Chapter 4: What to Expect During the First Year
Part II: Essential Skills
Chapter 5: Great Ways to Study Law
Chapter 6: All About Briefing and Outlining
Chapter 7: Mastering Legal Research and Technology
Chapter 8: Legal Writing: What to Expect and How to Improve
Chapter 9: Writing a Great Law School Exam
Chapter 10: Bettering Your Oral Communications Skills
Chapter 11: Law Student Ethics and Interactions
Part III: Options Worth Considering
Chapter 12: Joint Degrees and Advanced Law Degrees: Are They for You?
Chapter 13: Law School Concentrations, Certificates, and Specialization
Chapter 14: Clinics and Internships/Externships
Chapter 15: International Legal Study
Part IV: Life as a Law Student
Chapter 16: Balancing Work, Life, and Law School
Chapter 17: Law School Extracurriculars
Chapter 18: Law School Diversity: Resources for Students from Typically Underrepresented Backgrounds
Part V: The Bar Exam and Beyond
Chapter 19: Studying for the Bar Exam Throughout Law School
Chapter 20: Career Planning for New JDs
Ursula Furi-Perry, J.D., is the author of Law School Revealed and Your First Year as a Lawyer Revealed. In addition, she is a nationally published legal writer, attorney, and adjunct law professor. She is the author of five books and more than 300 published articles, and she writes the career column for the National Jurist, as well as a column profiling recent law grads for the Jurist and its sister publication, PreLaw Magazine.
Perry teaches legal writing and analysis courses at the Massachusetts School of Law, in addition to college-level paralegal and government courses. She frequently speaks about law school, legal careers, and related topics to colleges and associations.
She graduated magna cum laude from law school. Her website is www.furiperry.com.
For interview requests or questions about Perry, contact Selena Dehne at sdehne@jist.com or (651) 215-7548.
