First Tear Law School

“Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law Professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. 

What if you could begin law school knowing what to expect before your first day of class? "The ABCs of Law School: Diary of a First Year Student" takes listeners behind the scenes of the first year of law school through Teresa Power's own experiences as a law student. Written by Teresa Power, J...

Decades after Scott Turow entered law school comes an all new unabridged production of this classic with a special introduction by and interview with the author One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a bestseller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to...