Law School


Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams
Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
1L of a Ride: A Well-Traveled Professor's Roadmap to Success in the First Year of Law School
One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School
The Legal Analyst: A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
Plain English for Lawyers
Property (Aspen Casebooks)
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
Just Mercy
The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School
A Civil Action
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (American Casebook Series)
The Love Hypothesis by Ali HazelwoodSecond Breath by Danika BloomDragon's Lair by Chantal FernandoDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa Layne
Romance Novels with Grad Students
82 books — 50 voters
Half-Built Houses by E P  KellerOdell's Fall by Norman BacalGet Bail, Leave Jail by S.J. PlotkinA CONSTITUTION FOR A DEMOCRACY by Rohit Roy KajariaTake Charge by Norman Bacal
Law & "lawyers" books
50 books — 24 voters

Quizmaster Point of Law Review by Eric Allen EngleNegotiate Like a CEO by Jotham S. SteinFallout by Scott Edward ColeGetting Things Done by ReadSmartlyA Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
Best Law Books for 1L students
7 books — 3 voters
CEO-Stories by Michael EastwoodOne L by Scott TurowAt Bonus Time, No-One Can Hear You Scream by David ChartersThe Firm by John GrishamWhat I Didn't Learn in Business School by Jay B. Barney
The Corporate Ladder
57 books — 9 voters

Can You Stiff Your Divorce Lawyer? Tales of How Cunning Clien... by Portia PorterAlienation of Affections by Portia PorterNever Split the Difference by Chris VossBeaver vs. Beaver, a legal comedy by Portia PorterTypography for Lawyers by Matthew Butterick
Books for Young Lawyers
25 books — 9 voters

Scott Turow
It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel.. ...more
Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

It’s not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You’d probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it’s not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it’s all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can’t get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They’ll both clash whenever you least expect it, and when you hit a crossroad you have to know when to go lef ...more
Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony

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