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Spotlight Reviews
Some good advice but also absurdly negative, January 15, 2003
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Reviewer: A reader
from San Francisco, CA USA |
I read (and enjoyed) Planet Law School:
What You Need to Know (Before You Go)...but Didn't Know to Ask and
thought it provided a good deal of sound advice on how to approach and
succeed in Law School. True, as many below state, it seems a bit paranoid
about the law school experience but most of the paranoia results in two
pieces of advice: 1) to succeed, be prepared and 2) take responsibility for
yourself since others are, primarily, out for themselves. Sound pieces of
advice, I'd think, for anything you might want to do in life.
But the main reason I have for writing this
review is to correct one mistake the person from Austin writing below makes:
the book does NOT claim that you shouldn't read cases. It simply states (on
p. 71) that case books are expensive and heavy and that you'd do better to
read them in the library. If you must, the author states, copy the relevant
cases. If that's exemplary of our friend from Texas' thoroughness, you can
make up your own mind as to how much credit you want to give the rest of
what he has to say.
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