1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School

About this book

1L of a Ride provides a candid step-by-step roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law schools crucial first year. Told in a reader-friendly voice that "shows" rather than "tells" covered topics include top student fears first-year curriculum effective class participation types of law students and professors case-briefing note-taking course-outlining legal research and writing exam preparation and strategies stress management and much more. Filled with anecdotes and comments from real law students and authentic samples of Socratic dialogue exam questions case-briefs class notes and course outlines. McClurg is an award-winning professor and noted legal humorist with experience teaching at several law schools.