Strategies & Tactics for the First Year Law Student

by Kimm Walton, Lazar Emanuel

Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student gives you a detailed, step-by-step program for surviving the first year of law school.

• Note-taking—Sharpening your note-taking skills will maximize your study time and improve your grades
• Your law professor's personality—Understanding it can be to your advantage
• Study traps—What are they and how to avoid them
• Memory aids—How classic memory systems work and when you should (and shouldn't) use them
• The pressures of law school—Effective techniques for handling the pressure from classmates, professors, and reading assignments
• Taking exams—Nine steps to writing exceptional exam answers
• The Internet—Useful search engines and websites

192 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998