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Library Resources for Law School Success

As the new school year starts at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law it's a good time to highlight some of the Law Library's resources that can help students succeed in classes this year.

The Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library provides a range of useful titles including:

• Law School Survival Manual: From LSAT to Bar Exam
• Excelling in Law School
• What Every Law Student Really Needs to Know
• Strategies and Tactics for the First Year Law Student
• LL.M. Roadmap: An International Student's Guide to U.S. Law School Programs
• and more!

A range of print books on succeeding in law school are available in the Law Library treatise collection in the basement, including titles such as:

• Law school exams : a guide to better grades (KF238.S335 2018)
• The law of law school : the essential guide for first-year law students ((KF272.F43 2020)
• Succeeding in law school (KF283.R36 2020)
• How to be sort of happy in law school (KF287.Y68 2078)
• The guide to belonging in law school (KF283.M33 2020)
• 1L of a ride : a well-traveled professor's roadmap to success in the first year of law school (KF287.M38 2017)
• Letter to a One L friend : a little guide to seeing the big picture and succeeding in law school (KF283.M36 2019)
• Scholarly writing for law students : seminar papers, law review notes and law review competition papers (KF250.F35 2017)

You can also search the library catalog for specific titles or browse the KF283 range in the basement for more titles.

Our research guide on legal skills and study highlights more resources, while our guide to online law school classes provides useful information for those who are studying remotely this year.