1000 Days to the Bar - But the Practice of Law Begins Now: How to achieve your personal best in Law School

by Dennis J. Tonsing

1000 Days to the Bar explains the relationship between the professional practice of law and the practice you need to perform each week to achieve your objectives. This unique guide is designed to empower first-year law students by presenting the components for academic success in a step-by-step format that lays out a practice-centered approach to legal studies. In this book you will discover how - Read and brief court opinions
- Take and transform class notes into course summaries, outlines and flow charts.
- Learn essential elements of the law "by heart."
- Gain fluency in the "language of the law." Special supplements
- Study tips from law school professors and academic support professionals.
- Detailed descriptions of many of the most popular commercial study aids.
- Time management details and time allocation methods, including creation of a personal Flexible Time Resource Allocation Chart.
- Guidelines for powerful, effective study groups.
- Instructions for preparing a practical and efficient law study environment.

Genres: Law, Nonfiction

186 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2003

Reviews

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This should be required reading for every first year law student, during the summer before entering law school. You should only buy this one book. Feel free to modify the techniques to fit your style, including the use of newer technologies to replicate what the author suggests doing manually.
The book covers the nuts and bolts of attending law school lectures, taking notes, briefing cases, outlining courses, creating study systems and test preparation.

[Reagan Faith Waggoner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mediocre at best—core message of the book was to manage time well, interact with texts, study a lot, and do well in law school. Jurisprudence is the philosophy of the law and thus raw memorization is not enough... you must learn to write and read briefs consistently and methodically, thinking deeper than surface level. And so on. Great concepts and all, but nothing really new here

[Amber Ziegler]

This was a great book to help prepare for law school, it just took actually going to law school for me to realize that's not what I want to do.