Many law schools suggest or recommend certain books for incoming law students to read before law school.

Awhile back we at CALI unscientifically searched through a bunch of law schools' websites and compiled a list of books that frequently come up on law schools' suggested or recommended reading lists.

We also linked through to each book's Amazon page so you can take a look at prices, used options, reviews, etc.

We posted it here at learnthelaw.org. Take a look at some of these titles for your summer.

Got any other suggestions or ideas? Don't like a book on that list? Let us know.

While at the conference last week, one of my colleagues pointed out that Charleston School of Law has been posting bar review lectures here on their CALI Classcaster blog.

As a pre-law student you may not see the significance of free bar review lectures. But I hope some people studying the bar right now, possibly finding this in a search, get a chance to take advantage of podcasts. More below...

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You likely won't see any posts on the blog this week. I'm in Las Vegas for the 2007 CALI Conference.

Law Librian Blog reports that Phoenix School of Law received provisional ABA accreditation. Here's the press release from the school.

Good news for the school and its students. Congratulations! Of course, we're all lawyers or future lawyers here so there's a disclaimer that goes along with it.

The big news of the day is that a couple of law students, with the help of a Yale professor, are suing a bunch of message board contributors for some unsavory, to say the least, content that those contributors posted about the two. More on this here.

For those unfamiliar, AutoAdmit (link not for the weak of heart)

is a notoriously trashy message board for law students.

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Unfortunately, I had to disable comments on this site because of the inordinate amount of porn spam comments it was getting. This really hurts the whole discussion aspect that this blog could have, but I still love to hear feedback from readers through the "Do you have a question..." form on the right.

Here is a (very long) comment from a reader that really illustrates some of the points I try to make on this blog (though, obviously, not her original intent). I interspersed the comment with my responses for your reading ease.

Just FYI, your posting about high law firm salaries has some inaccuracies.

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"Are Law Students Emotional Wrecks?" asks the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. Yes, at least compared to medical students says this study.

Law school really can be a stressful place. I've witnessed other students having small emotional breakdowns because of law school on occasions. Think about whether you handle stress well and make sure that you are emotionally ready if you do decide to go to law school.

Prelaw Advisor reports that the LSAC has changed it's policy on how it reports deposits of applicants to other schools and what effect this might have on students with multiple law school deposits.

Brett of The Frugal Law Student kindly asked me to do an interview for his blog. You can find that interview here.

The Frugal Law Student blog is about saving money in law school and dealing with student loan debt. It's been one of my the few blogs I keep a link to over on the right. I've loved the blog from the start because, well, I need to save money because I have a lot of student loan debt.

I highly recommend keeping up with this blog before and throughout law school.

After your second year of law school, if you are lucky enough to have some combination of really good grades, connections, attending a really good school, doing well in fall interviews you might land a summer associate position.

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