Berman and Patterson's Prelaw Success: Getting into and Thriving in Law School

This reader-friendly guide provides honest, straightforward, and invaluable information for everyone starting, applying to, or thinking about applying to law school. Prelaw Success is also an essential read for those advising and supporting future law students.

• Future law students:Prelaw Success gives you a ton of concise, key points that are essential for success in the application process including strategies for timing applications, how many schools to apply to, and how to select the school you want to attend. The authors provide tips on LSAT prep, personal statements, letters of recommendation, optional essays, and how to maintain your stamina and positivity through the whole application process.
• Prelaw advisors:Prelaw Success is a go-to resource for guiding future law students through the application process and providing students with concrete strategies for success as they begin their legal education journey. The authors, combined, have more than 50 years of experience in legal education and the legal profession; and Prelaw Success focuses on the whole student, weaving critical support for students’ mental and physical health into practical strategic advice.
• Families and friends of future law students:Prelaw Success gives you tools and language to understand how to best support the future lawyer in your life. Prelaw Success gives you a sense of the intensity of the path your future lawyer is on, and the knowledge you need to understand that the challenges do not end when a candidate is accepted to law school; that is only the beginning.

Each of us has something great to contribute to our world. As a future law student, reading Prelaw Success will uplift you and help you see the power in believing in yourself while learning from reliable experts who have together helped thousands of students and lawyers to realize their goals.

Perhaps most important, and unlike other many prelaw books, this guide shares real peoples’ stories (with names changed to protect privacy)–their struggles and the triumphs. Reading Prelaw Success enables readers to clearly see that if this is the path of your dreams, then you belong in law school.