law

1001 Legal Words You Need to Know: The Ultimate Guide to the Language of the Law
$12.95
What is so 'Ultimate' about this book??? And how it's a 'guide' I'll never know. It just guides me to needing another book! I'm studying to be a paralegal, and after going online to check out some good books to have on hand in my library, and to make my studying easier and resourceful, this one had some good reviews so I got it (for next to nothing, maybe less than $3...). Well thank goodness that's all I paid, cause in my opinion, this book has been worthless from day one. This one - and another one I thought would be good - "Barrons Law Dictionary" (the little cute black, thick paperback, which also had some good reviews). Even though Barron's is Copyrighted 1996, still.....they both fall WAY SHORT in delivering the goods. The "1001 Legal Words" is Copyrighted 2003! Granted, Barron's DOES contain more, much more, but still is missing A LOT of common legal terms. I'ts just annoying, and you go online to check out reviews hoping that will guide you in the right direction. Well, not in this case. Definately not for this book!

I don't know how it got any good reviews; just some simple legal words literally were not there. For example, today I looked up "requisition" - Not There! I looked up "Limited Liability" - Not There! Another one: "Uniform Commercial Code [UCC]" - again, NOT THERE! The list just goes on and on. I started looking up lots of diff. words, just for the fun of it, to see what was in there, and I could not BELIEVE the lack thereof. Man....... don't get this book; it's a literal waste of money (no matter what you paid) and time - the time spent looking up legal words that just are not going to be there!

Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
$18.95
I've only read the first few chapters because they're the only ones that apply to me so far. So far the advice is sound, there seems to be a lot of input from various people who have graduated from some of the top schools in the country. The writing is compelling and speaks directly to the reader in an informal manner. Probably a good guide to help someone wrap their head around the entire experience.

Law For Dummies
$21.99
This book touches most laws and regulations which play a role in everyday life. Raises your awareness and could keep you from doing stupid things without gaining deeper information

Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System
$28.00
This book is perhaps the best of the intro to law books out there. I haven't read very many of those but I've skimmed through a number of them. So take my claim for what it's worth. I would also recommend this to soon to be 1L's.