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    • Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
    • Pub. Date: July 1997
    • ISBN-13: 9780890898772
    • Sales Rank: 38,092
    • 128pp
    • Edition Number: 1
     
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    The result of eight years of working with first-semester students at five different law schools, this book melds the information about the legal system usually found in legal methods books, and the information about study skills usually found in books with a "how to succeed in law school" focus. The book uses one area of law - the implied warranty of merchantability as it applies to food - to illustrate various legal issues and the skills needed to master them. The first two chapters introduce basic legal concepts and vocabulary in the context of one hypothetical case, that of a woman injured by a fish bone while dining in a restaurant. Chapters three and four, on cases and casebooks, focus on the structure of cases and the types of reasoning courts use. When readers reach the final chapters, which concentrate on outlining and preparation for exams, they know the necessary background to concentrate on learning the skills they will need to be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of legal materials.

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    June 25, 2003: Carolyn Nygren's book can be best seen as a delightful and satisfying appetizer before the large meal known as law school. Nygren does not go into too much detail, but rather provides a brief overview of what to expect as a 1L (1st year law school student). The book itself is fairly inexpensive and easy to read, something that will undoubtedly be rare once in law school. For those wanting to know more of what law schools have to offer, I strongly recommend Robert Miller's Law School Confidential. It contains a more in-depth preview of what one would expect not just as a 1L but throughout one's tenure in law school and beyond.