Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience

This is the key to succeeding in law school. I didn't get the chance to read this book until I got to law school, but it helped me get the job of my dreams. I didn't go to a top tier law school, but I'm working in the field I want in the firm I wanted in the city I wanted. Get this book! The other book to read on this is: Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student

This book came out after my own law-school years, and I read it in search of books to recommend to undergrad friends who were headed to law school. I can say this: Everything Miller recommends, and that I DID, worked. everything he recommends, and that I DIDN'T do, I WISH I'd done!

Wow! This book really hit home for me. I was the unprepared, overconfident and cocky 1L at the start of my first semester of law school in 2001. Needless to say, after only 3 days of orientation, my confidence was exhausted and panic set in. I had no clue of what I was doing, or even why I was in law school in the first place. After weighing my options and having a heart-to-heart with the Dean of Admissions, I decided to defer my enrollment until 2002. This has been one of the best decisions of my life. After reading Mr. Miller's book, I have come to the realization that law school is a total COMMITMENT; it's not a try; it's not a "taste"; and it will be very unforgiving to those who don't fully prepare themselves for its intellectual rigors. Sure, you can go to law school and not put any real effort or thought into what you are actually preparing yourself for. And if you're lucky, because that may be all that you have to count on, you will even graduate. However, what you will not have done is fully realize your intellectual potential. And when you hit the real world of stiff job competition, which is already overflowing with lawyers just like you, your opportunity to differentiate yourself from the masses will have slipped away. Mr. Miller meticulously maps out a proven game plan for success. And if you follow his and the mentor's advice, which, by the way, often applies to any goal you set, your success in law school will eventually come to fruition. And you will have learned one of the most important lessons in life. That true success is not gained from a piece of parchment; rather, true success is only gained from within yourself.My advice is to read this book and find a real reason to commit 3 years of your life to the law. And if you can, then show the world what it has been waiting for and set your course. Otherwise, to use the age-old cliche, "you'll be up a creek without a paddle"! Best wishes.

For those who are thinking of applying to law school or who are in the first (or perhaps second) year of law school, this book should be a must read. Too many people apply having a vague notion of what they would like to do with their degree and put off addressing important decisions until some of the choices that they would like to have have come and gone. As many who have fumbled through the application process and/or the first semester of law school in a haze have found out, it may now be too late to do what it is that they want to do. The process has made important decisions for them. This is a no nonsense book that includes useful comments from recent law school graduates. It addresses whether to apply, the application process, studying, exams and applying for jobs. It is the kind of book that those of us who graduated from law school years ago can read and say "yes, yes" I wish I had known that!