ACING YOUR FIRST YEAR OF LAW SCHOOL THE TEN STEPS TO SUCCESS YOU WON'T LEARN IN CLASSNoyes, Shana Connell; Noyes, Henry S. Item #: 62524 Pages: i-xii, 150 p. Printed: 2008. Subjects: LEGAL EDUCATION, LEGAL PROFESSION First published in 1999, Acing Your First Year of Law School has become one of the bestselling law school preparation books of all time. The pre-law advisory office of numerous universities, a variety of legal organizations, law school admissions consultant services, and law school student organizations have recommended it. It also has been favorably discussed many times on various law school discussion boards and blogs. Why? Because it has helped tens of thousands of law students ace their first year of law school. Every law student will tell you that the first year is the most important and the most frustrating. Law professors do not teach students the law; instead, they leave students on their own to figure out the “answer” from a series of questions. This is a manual that teaches first-year law students the ten basic skills they need to know to start learning on their first day and ace their first year. The Second Edition has been updated to reflect the best use of technology. It includes a preface that addresses the Socratic Method and how to beat it. It also includes an epilogue that focuses on tasks that are necessary to ensure a successful transition from the first to the second semester. The authors of Acing Your First Year of Law School, Shana and Henry Noyes, both made law review based on their first-year grades. In 1994, they both graduated in the top three percent of their classes, Shana from Tulane Law School and Henry from Indiana University, Bloomington School of Law. They both earned judicial clerkships with federal appellate judges and went on to join a prominent law firm.
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