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[Carrie Ann Lucas]

I agree with Rob.  Substantive study is probably not that useful for law
school success, unless you are doing some sort of law school preparation
program that is teaching you how to study and read for law school.  Most
first year law school classes have very little to do with the practice of
law, and have more to do with teaching you to think and study the way your
school wants to do. My opinion I that the best thing you can do to prepare
you for lawyering (assuming you want to practice law after law school) is to
get as much legal experience as possible.  Find somewhere to volunteer and
jump in, be it helping with intakes at a local women's shelter, or answering
phones for a busy firm.  Whatever you can do to gain experience, network,
and learn more about how you will manage accommodations for yourself is far
more valuable than any reading you do for core classes.  

Carrie Ann Lucas
Attorney/Equal Justice Works Fellow
Center for Rights of Parents with Disabilities Colorado Cross-Disability
Coalition
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-----Original Message-----
Tie, I would respectfully disagree with Tim on this point. I do not believe
that at this time you need to be worried about reading prep materials in
order to get ahead for when you actually start law school. Each professor,
each school has its own take on the substantive law, and they will teach you
when you arrive at Law School. More importantly, the materials will not make
much sense to you anyway in a legal sense because you won't know what to
look for when reading and how to put it all together. The best I can advise
if you want to get ahead, however, would be to read about the U.S court
systems, the Supreme Court, government, philosophy texts, etc. Knowing these
types of information will certainly place you a head of your peers, in my
opinion.

 I would definitely stay away from reading substantive Law, unless this is
what drives your interest for leisure readings. One thing I did that was
helpful before I started Law School was reading Latin legal terminologies,
and it saved me a lot of time from having to consult a legal dictionary
every time I encountered a term in a reading.

Another thing you can do that will help you would be to start getting use to
reading very dense, lengthy texts with attention to details because that's
exactly what you will be doing when you are actually in Law School.

Take care.

Rod Alcidonis
 Juris Doctor Candidate, 2009.