The Practice of Law School: Legal Skills and Mental Health and Wellness

This well-known book recognizes that law exams test legal reasoning and that legal reasoning cannot be reduced to any simple "check the boxes" template. It offers a clear, readable, and often humorous guide to how lawyers and judges deploy legal reasoning in real-world disputes and how law professors test such disputes -and the reasoning required to resolve them- on law exams.

How to Write Law Essays & Exams provides law students with a practical and proven method of analysing and answering essay and exam questions. The book focuses on those questions that give students the most trouble, namely problem questions, but its techniques are equally applicable to other types of essays.

A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. It shows what professors look for in exam answers, how exam-taking connects to good lawyering, and explains what makes law school exams different from other types of exams.

With its wealth of visual aids, examples, and practical advice, John Dernbach's concise guide enables students to develop the strong essay-writing skills they need to succeed and feel confident taking essay exams.