Law School Bound

John Richardson, B.A., LL.B., J.D.

Table Of Contents

• Part I - Pre-Law Issues

  • 1. So, You Want To Be A Lawyer

    • Focus: The identification of a reason for attending law school

  • 2. The Pre-Law State Of Mind

    • Focus: Pre-Law Years - Issues Of Concern To Pre-Law Students: how to select courses, summer jobs, etc.

  • 3. How To Locate Suitable Law Schools

    • Focus: How to find appropriate schools in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.

• Part II - Application Issues

  • 4. The Importance Of A Plan

    • Focus: Personal Success Stories - How success relates to planning

  • 5. It's Time To Apply - Getting Organized

    • Focus: Preliminary Considerations - What is the most appropriate application category? How to identify the "mission statements" of different schools.

  • 6. Personal Statements And The Autobiographical Sketch

    • Focus: How to develop personal statements. What works. What doesn't.

  • 7. Samples Of Personal Statements

    • Focus: Samples or real personal statements

  • 8. Letters Of Reference

    • Focus: How to obtain effective letters. What makes an effective letter, effective?

  • 9. Interviews

    • Focus: Some discussion aimed a the few schools that do interview.  Personal accounts of applicants who have been interviewed.

• Part III - Law School Issues

  • 10. You're Accepted - How To Select Law Schools

    • Focus: What are the tools to compare law schools?

  • 11. Law School - What It's About

    • Focus: Courses, workload, cases, briefing, Socratic method

  • 12. Accredited Law Schools - Part-Time, Evenings, Weekends

    • Focus: Available opportunities and personal accounts

  • 13. Non-Traditional Ways Of Obtaining A Legal Education

    • Focus: Correspondence law schools, external study, states that allow bar admission based on law office study, undergraduate degrees in law, paralegals

  • 14. Graduate Degrees In Law

    • Focus: Why do them? Where are they? Personal Accounts

  • 15. Success In Law School - Read It Before You Start!

    • Focus: Get started on the right foot. Advice in the form of an article by a law professor.

• Part IV - Bar Admission Issues

  • 16. Becoming a Barrister and Solicitor - Bar Admission In The Canadian Common Law Provinces

    • Focus: Canadian lawyers are both Barristers and Solicitors - Educational and character requirements for both

  • 17. Articling And The Bar Admission Course In Canada

    • Focus: The Dirt On articling and the classroom component of the Bar Admission Course

  • 18. Becoming a Notary Or Advocate - Bar Admission In Quebec

    • Focus: Quebec lawyers are either Notaries or Advocates - Requirements to become either a Notary and Advocate

  • 19. Becoming An Attorney At Law - Bar Admission In The U.S.

    • Focus: How to become an Attorney At Law - Opportunities for both U.S. and non U.S. law graduates

  • 20. Becoming a Barrister or Solicitor - Bar Admission In The U.K.

    • Focus: U.K. Lawyers are either Barristers or Solicitors - How to become either a Barrister OR Solicitor

• Part V - Lawyers - What The Profession Is Like

  • 21. Lawyers - Scenes From The Legal Profession

    • Focus: The wide range of lawyer's activities

  • 22. Lawyer's Incomes - What Do Lawyers Earn?

    • Focus: The wide range of lawyer's incomes

  • 23. Lawyers And The Law - "More Than An Ordinary Citizen"

    • Focus: The heightened legal and ethical restrictions on lawyers

  • 24. The Practice Of Law - Both A Business And A Profession

    • Focus: Lawyers and unpopular causes, business aspects of the practice of law

  • 25. 21st Century Compliance - The Practice Of Law In The 21st Century

    • Focus: Be Prepared!! How globalization and technology are affecting the practice of law

  • 26. Lawyers Mobility In The New World - "Have Law Degree Will Travel"

    • Focus: Take that law career and use it to pursue opportunities in other countries, NAFTA, eligibility to take the Bar Exam, National Committee On Accreditation, etc.

  • 27. Lawyers - Job Satisfaction And Quality Of Life

    • Focus: The sometimes precarious balance between professional and personal lives

  • 28. Law, Society And The Law Society - How Canadian Lawyers Govern Themselves

    • Focus: The Canadian legal profession as a self-governing profession, the role of the Law Society

• Part VI - Historical Barriers To Access

  • 29. Minorities - Law School And The Practice Of Law

    • Focus: Is discrimination against minority groups still an issue?

  • 30. Women - The new majority in law schools

    • Focus: From the common law prohibition from practicing law to their majority status in law schools

• Part VII - An LSAT Primer

  • 31. Introducing The LSAT - Who, What, When And Where!

    • Focus: What does the test look like? How do you register? How is the LSAT used?

  • 32. Inside The LSAT - Percentile Performance - How To Maximize Your Score

    • Focus: 26 Effective Principles Of Approach

  • 33. Understanding The LSAT - What Your Score Means

  • 34. LSAT - Post Mortem Considerations

    • Focus: When should cancel your score? When should you repeat the LSAT?

  • 35. For LSAT Historians - Towards A Computer Adaptive LSAT

    • Focus: The evolution of the LSAT to its widely expected computer adaptive format

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