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(More customer reviews)Finally - a guide book about law school that doesn't claim to have all the answers. I've been accepted to law school and have spent money on many other law guides, such as Planet Law School, Law School Confidential, etc. Those are good books and very useful, but really only deliver just one person's perspective (although in the case of LSC, slightly more than one person's perspective) on the whole law school experience. This book draws on the experiences of many individuals and contains some very revealing insight as a result of its diverse content.
It's entitled Later in Life Lawyers, but the sections actually dealing with old(er) people issues are not really that dominant. If you're a career changer (like I was), this book will be perfect. If you're a traditional law student, then this book still has plenty of meat for you too.
I tried the web site, Nontradlaw.com, that this book is linked to. The site itself seems to be a decent resource - lots more of the same information. If you like the site, you'll like the book and vice versa. The site does have a little bit of a older person vibe to it (a little mature for my taste), but again, it's one of the better pre law web sites out there.
One thing I really liked was the fact that it didn't play to the US News rankings. For many - if not most - law applicants, the rankings are important, but often largely irrelevent. All 4 tiers of law school are full with students. It's not like sane, motivated people actually decide not to go to law school because they didn't get into a top tier law school like some other guide books recommend (and often all-but-require). If you're like most law applicants out there, this book doesn't insult you or make you feel like you're doomed to failure if you aren't in a position to go to Harvard for whatever reason. After reading some other pre law guides, I almost wanted to give up on the whole legal education thing because I felt like because I could only attend a lower tier school (for family reasons), I was doomed to a life of chasing ambulances. Common sense and a little research, of course, tells anyone with half a brain that attending a lower tier law school does not ruin your career or make you a bad lawyer - there's plenty of successful non top school lawyers out there, and plenty of crappy top law school lawyers, and most clients don't care where you went to law school as long as you graduated and passed the bar exam - and this is just about the only pre law book I've read that takes a straightforward, practical look at this issue. If you don't have a 170 LSAT and a GPA of 3.75 or more, then this book does deliver good, practical advice for you in navigating the application process and won't make you rather slit your wrists than attend a non top law school.
In sum, one of the better pre law guides on the market right now. Very down to earth and straightforward. A good addition to your pre law school reading list. The Nontradlaw franchise seems to be doing a good job, although I wouldn't recommend relying solely on it for all your information. I would put this book up in my trifecta of worthwhile pre law books, along with PLS and LSC.
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Law school is a scary place for any new student.For an older ("non-traditional") student, it can be intimidating as well as being ill-designed for the needs of an older, second-career student with children, mortgages, and the like.This book compiles advice from the author, lawyer-editors, and dozens of current and former law students, on such matters as dealing with families and children, the LSAT and GPAs for the older student, the law school application process and law school rankings for non-traditional students, paying for law school, surviving first year and non-academic hurdles, and the occasional skeleton in the non-traditional closet.
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