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
Just Mercy
Plain English for Lawyers
Property (Aspen Casebooks)
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
The Bramble Bush: The Classic Lectures on the Law and Law School
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
A Civil Action
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
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
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
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

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
84 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
52 books — 24 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 — 10 voters

Daniel Amory
One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.
Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

Robert A. Heinlein
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

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