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Legal research and writing

This guide provides an introduction to legal research and writing for law students.

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1L of a ride: a well-traveled professor's roadmap to success in the first year of law school, 4th ed by Andrew McClurg
Call Number: KF287 M33 2021

Publication Date: 2021

1L of a Ride provides a candid, comprehensive roadmap to both academic and emotional success in law school's crucial first year.
How to Be Sort of Happy in Law School by Kathryne Young
Call Number: Electronic

Publication Date: 2020

Young teaches students how to approach law school on their own terms: how to tune out the drumbeat of oppressive expectations and conventional wisdom to create a new breed of law school experience altogether. Young provides readers with practical tools for finding focus, happiness, and a sense of purpose while facing the seemingly endless onslaught of problems law school presents daily

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