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Reading Like A Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies For Reading Law Like An Expert
Reading Like A Lawyer TimeSaving Strategies For Reading Law Like An Expert Author:Ruth Ann McKinney The ability to read law well is a critical, indispensable skill that can make or break the academic career of any aspiring lawyer. In the first semester of law school alone, for example, it is not unusual for law students to read well over 2,500 pages in their assigned casebooks. This reading is challenging not only because of its sheer volume, ... more »but also because it is comprised largely of material that is unfamiliar to even the best-educated pre-law students. Using seven specific reading strategies reinforced with hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter, this book shows how you can read law like expert law students and expert lawyers do efficiently, effectively, powerfully, and confidently. Law students, pre-law students, and any professional whose work touches on law will all find Reading Like a Lawyer to be an engaging, easy-to-read guide to the complex and powerful world of law-based reading. A teachers manual is available.« less