Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Torts    6. Torts / delicts   

Subjects:  1. Graduate Departments And Schools    2. Graduate School Guides - General    3. Graduate School Guides - Law    4. Legal Education    5. Reference    6. Study Aids    7. Test Prep    8. Study Aids / Graduate School Guides   

Reviews (10)

Waste of Money
save your money and buy a book that really intent to help you on your Series 7 test.

STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK
This book is completely useless. This book could be useful for someone with no prior knowledge on investing BUT it's very unlikely as the person who wrote this book had typos throughout the book. I have a problem with buying a book that says "Series 7 exam prep" and discusses nothing about the exam. Not worth the money spent , i wouldn't even buy it used. PAGE 66 ...the word on the first paragraph should be "manage" not "mange" although at some points of this book i really thought it was in french. So useless.

Total Waste of Money
This book is absolutely useless.The information provided is not connected in any relevant way to the Series 7 test and does not give any more insight into 'thinking like a stockbroker' than would a copy of Barron's or the Economist.In fact, go buy the latest issue of Barron's, save $15, and get a lot more articles.You can feel almost immediately that this book was made simply to cash in on anxious Series 7 test takers.You do not need this book; it is an expensive and unnecessary way to acquaint yourself with information otherwise available. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Careers - General    2. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    3. Study Aids    4. Study Guides    5. Education    6. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    7. Reference    8. Research    9. Test Prep    10. USA   

Subjects:  1. Cases    2. Educational law and legislation    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Penology    6. Sociology    7. United States   

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John Q. Lawstudent
The book "Bar Exam in a Nutshell" is a worthwhile purchase. The book provides a briliant method to identify your weaknesses for both first time takers and repeat examinees called "Forensic IRAC." This alone makes the book worthwhile. In addition, the book gives you a concise overview of the entire bar exam process in conformity with most West Nutshells which give you an overview.
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Subjects:  1. Admission to the bar    2. Bar examinations    3. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    4. Law    5. Law examinations    6. Legal Education    7. Study Guides    8. United States    9. Industrial or vocational training    10. Legal skills & practice   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Information Management    6. Law    7. Legal Education    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal secretaries    10. Office Automation    11. Reference    12. Terminology    13. United States    14. Finance & Accounting    15. Law / Law Office Management   

Reviews (3)

Time-wasting if not skill-diminishing
I've read this book for LSAT prep.While the selection of passages is excellent, crafting of questions is simply a bad joke.To be precise, it is mostly the answer choices that makes this book time-wasting, if not skill-diminishing.The answer choices in this book are just not the kind of choices that appear in an actual test.Especially annoying is that many "right" answer choices can be right only after a very very long stretch of logic, which NEVER happens in a real test.

Excellent study tool
This book helps the reader learn the correct way to annotate and outline the paragraphs on the reading comprehension section of the GRE*MCAT*LSAT*GMAT.It was very helpful.

NOTWORTH
I have reviewed the first 3 chapterswhich contains explaination given by the author to tackle the reading comprehension questions.But to co-relate the theory(explaination given by author) to the practice questions ispractically not possible.Read more

Subjects:  1. Education    2. GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)    3. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    4. MCAT (Medical College Admission Test)    5. Reading And Reading Improvement    6. Study Guides    7. Testing & Measurement    8. Examinations & assessment    9. Reading skills    10. Study & learning skills    11. Study guides, home study & revision notes   

Subjects:  1. Evidence    2. Evidence (Law)    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Study and teaching    7. United States    8. Courts & procedure   

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A good mix of tutorial advice with decent problems
The book contains 71 original problems as well as 12 more from LSATs 46-48.
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Subjects:  1. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    2. Study Aids    3. Study Guides    4. Test Prep   

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A Quality Product
This is a great intro to argumentation, and is useful to people of all ages and degrees of experience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Debate And Forensics    2. Debates and debating    3. Language Arts & Disciplines    4. Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy    5. Legal Education    6. Performing Arts/Dance    7. Persuasion (Rhetoric)    8. Proposition (Logic)    9. Public Speaking    10. Reasoning    11. Rhetoric    12. Rhetoric (Speech)    13. Speech    14. Theater - General    15. Performing Arts    16. Performing Arts / Theater / General   

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Essays that get into law school?
Most of these essays are garbage, foreign to what most people need to know.I'm shocked that some of these people got into law school.I'm starting to figure out why the profession is a dying one and why no one respects it.
Essays that don't relate
The general tips provided about writing your personal statement are good, but are generally common sense to anyone who has taken a argumentative writing class and/or a good english class.Most books about the overall application process include these tips.
For those who dont know where to start
If you are like me and had no clue where to begin writing a personal essay (the personal ones are always the hardest, this book offers a step by step outline of how to brainstorm subjects and how to organize your thoughts, write and outline and eventually the essay(s).Read more

Subjects:  1. College applications    2. Composition & Creative Writing - Academic    3. Entrance examinations    4. Graduate Preparation - General    5. Law    6. Law schools    7. Legal Education    8. Reference    9. Study Guides    10. United States   

Reviews (3)

Extreme LSAT studying
The cheaper you can find this book, the better it is.It is a single LSAT PrepTest from February 1997, as such it is considered a modern LSAT (post 1995).The explanation are a little simplified, but still there are some pearls in the explanations.
Explanations are Very Basic!
I had to reconsider my review after evaluating the explanations on the games section.On this section, the explanations are not as helpful because there are no illustrated diagrams.Instead, there are short mini-paragraphs that require a bit more effort and time reading into. nothing like the real thing
This book gives you several real tests and the corect instructions on howto simulate the real enviroment. You can either prepare for the test in twodifferent ways. One is to take aprep class and that will cost you a tonof money. Or two, you could buy the books and teach yourself. This bookgives you several previously given test, with answers and explinations atthe end of each one. ITS WORTH IT. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    2. Study Guides    3. Test Prep   

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This Should Definately Be On Your Law School Reading List
I think Kaplan's Law School Admissions Adviser: The Expert Advice You Need to Get Into the Law School You Want is an excellent general overview of the entire admissions process. If you are just starting your research or initially contemplating law school, I highly recommend you read this book.
Useful guide to law school admittance
I thought this was an extremely helpful guide during my law school admissions process. I received quite a few tips on narrowing down my selections, essays and other factors involved in the process. In the end it's GPA and LSAT that matter most, but this guide will definitely give you a bit of an edge. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Admission    2. General    3. Graduate School Guides - Law    4. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    5. Law (General)    6. Law schools    7. Reference    8. Research    9. Study Aids    10. United States    11. Study Aids / Graduate School Guides   

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Not the Best Out There
Some of these essays are good, while others are unoriginal and dated.
Useful
This book is divided up into two (or three, if you count the Games bonus section) sections. If you have been reading law school admissions books, the first will tell you ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING NEW. It is general advice about drafting a personal statement and some questions and answers from admissions officers. If you haven't been reading law school admissions books and you just want some personal statement advice, I imagine it would be very enlightening. It wasn't anything new to me.
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Subjects:  1. Admission    2. Authorship    3. College Entrance    4. Essay    5. General    6. Law schools    7. Legal Education    8. Legal compositons    9. Reference    10. Study Aids    11. Test Prep    12. United States    13. Study Aids / General   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Legal Education    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Industrial or vocational training    5. Legal skills & practice   

Reviews (3)

Great Study Aid for Criminal Law
These cards were a great way for me to study for my exam.I found the colorful examples and the great black letter law and theory definition cards to be very effective.In addition the way these cards are organized is great.

Fantastic
Excellent book. It was very thorough and well written.

Fantastic
Excellent book. It was very thorough and well written. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Criminal Law - General    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Reviews (9)

Waste of Time & Money
The Kaplan LSAT 2004 focuses primarily on general LSAT strategies which will raise most student's scores by 1-2 points only, and thats assuming you are completely unfamiliar with the test. For those serious students who are generally familiar with the LSAT and willing to work hard to improve their score Kaplan and the Princeton Review are a complete waste of time and money. In some cases, such as Kaplan's method of solving Reading Comprehension questions, they are even counterproductive and can slow you down. Most students will emerge after studying the Kaplan book feeling confused and still unprepared, as I did. I strongly recommend the PowerScore books. I purchased the PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible and I am now able to work almost any logic game the LSAT can throw at me with confidence. I have also just ordered the newly released PowerScore LSAT Logical Reasoning Bible. Both of these books are expensive, they will run you about $90-$100 total but from my experience they are definitly worth it.

Not worth it...
This book is only good for those who really have no idea what the LSAT is.There are only a few pages on each section... and they are not all that helpful, they just tell you what kind of questions to expect... not HOW to do well on them.There are some "steps" to approaching each type of question, but I think those will end up slowing you down rather than helping you.I took an (actual) practice test totally blind before I read the book... and took another practice test out of the book... and scored only one point higher.I am relieved to hear that others believe the questions from the Kaplan book are bizarre, because I did okay on the logic game section on the actual practice LSAT (which I took without any preparation) and then, after reading the Kaplan book, totally BOMBED the logic games section in the Kaplan's practice test. Those questions WERE bizarre! Waste of Money
This book is a waste of money. Nothing in it is useful except maybe the introduction to the question types. I suggest that you get the Powerscore Logic Games Bible, Logic Reasoning Bible (Mid August 2004 I believe), and the next 10 actual LSATs, or 10 more actual official Lsats. Read the bibles and take practice tests over and over again. Good Luck. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    2. Law    3. Legal Education    4. Study & Teaching    5. Study Guides    6. Study Aids / General   

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Phenomenal
I may not be the most unbiased reviewer (I want to UNC Law and know Ruth well) but this is one of the best, if not THE best, book to help law students get through their first days of law school. I use the book myself (I also teach law) and it has the best skill-building exercises I have used.As a legal writing collegue of mine said, "Ruth should walk around with a tiara all day--she really is the queen of legal writing!"
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Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Law    3. Law students    4. Legal Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Reading comprehension    7. Research    8. Study and teaching    9. United States   

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Turbulence in the Legal Academy
Each of Laura Kalman's preceding books to some extent has dealt with Yale Law School: the incisive "Legal Realism at Yale"; her definitive biography of Abe Fortas; and the awesome "Strange Career of Legal Liberalism."This new and very long volume focuses upon the turbulence that descended upon Yale in the late 1960's and early 1970's. For readers whose interest in the topic does not extend to reading a 474 page, highly detailed analysis, Kalman has written an essay with the book's major themes in the volume of essays edited by Dean Kronman, "History of the Yale Law School" (also reviewed by myself on Amazon).
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Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. History    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Legal History    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Study & Teaching    8. Study and teaching    9. United States    10. United States - 20th Century    11. Yale Law School    12. Connecticut    13. Higher & further education    14. Law / Legal Education    15. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    16. Yale Law School; legal education; meritocracy; liberalism; the left; the Warren Court; Vietnam War; antiwar movement; affirmative action; Black Panthers; feminism; counterculture; Legal Realism; legal liberalism; Legal Process; Law and Society; Critical Legal Studies; Law and Economics; Alexander Bickel; Robert Bork; Guido Calabresi; Kingman Brewster; Hillary Rodham Clinton; Bill Clinton; Clarence Thomas; Bobby Seale; Harvard Law School; Christopher Columbus Langdell   

Reviews (4)

Not Great
This book is adequate as a textbook, but it's not a great resource for what's really going on out in the world. I felt it was very academic--which can be a good thing, but I think high school students will want something a little more practical. "Street" Law should be something more connected to the streets....I just didn't think this book did the job.

Street Law: A Course In Practical Law
This books gives a great overview of law related education.Students areintroduced to legal issues in the context of real life. It containspractical information for dealing with various legal problems.Studentslearn how to write to a member of Congress.This book has a section thatallows students to consider and decide the outcome of legal situations. They learn variations in local law and prodedures that focus attention onwhere the student lives. Over all I would suggest this book as a greattraining tool for the law related class study.

A coherent guide for the average citizen
As a high school student who studied with this textbook, I learned terms and concepts that I could immediately apply to current events.The news on TV and in newspapers about cases were suddenly understandable to me and Ifelt connected with justice and reason.I recommend "Street Law: ACourse in Practical Law" to anyone who wants a detailed andinformative, yet comprehensive guide to the law, from torts and criminallaw, to business and family law. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Education / Teaching    2. General    3. Law    4. Legal Education    5. Social Science - General    6. Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science    7. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Science / General