The “Companion Text” to Law School: Understanding and Surviving Life with a Law Student (West 2012)
As every lawyer and law student knows, law school is an adventure for the entire family. It’s a life-changing experience that affects everyone involved.
Dozens of books have been written to prepare students for law school, but what about all those other suffering souls–the relatives and friends who support and struggle right alongside the student on their wild and crazy journey toward a Juris Doctor degree? Who’s preparing them?
Read interview with McClurg about the book on the Westlaw Insider Blog
The “Companion Text” to Law School is designed to equip loved ones of law students—parents, partners, and other friends and relatives—with all the information and tools needed to understand both law school and their stressed out, rapidly transforming student.
Highlights
• Written by an award-winning professor with wide experience teaching thousands of law students at six law schools.
• Explains all the essentials of legal education, including the first-year curriculum, the Socratic Method of teaching, and the dreaded single-exam format.
• Explores the psyches of law students, including what they love to talk about, things you should never say to them, their sources of stress, and how law school can change their personalities.
• Addresses the impact of law school on outside relationships—and vice versa—and gives tips for navigating relationships with law students.
• Includes dozens of comments, anecdotes, and insights from real law students and their loved ones.
• Extras include a chapter on the types of jobs available to new law graduates, fun “legal” questions you can use to stump your student, a sample case, and a glossary.
• Backed up throughout by academic research.
• Written in a lively, reader-friendly voice, bolstered by humor.
I am eagerly anticipating this book. Thank you for introducing it’s existence!
I’ve skimmed through the book- & read the entire chapter on personality (I am waiting for my mother to finish it so I can read the entire thing). From what I read, it was a real eye opener! I wish this book had been out either when I began law school or at least before I had finished! One thing I believe for certain- it would benefit EVERY law student & EVERY newly practicing attorney- to read about the inherent personality changes & to become aware of their effects…before its too late!
Thank you. That’s one of my favorite chapters in the book as well.