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Publications and Online Resources:
The following resources are designed to help you evaluate
law schools
The Official Guide to US Law Schools provides
information on each of the American
Bar Association-approved law schools, including 25th and 75th
percentiles of LSAT scores and GPAs.
Catalogs and bulletins published and distributed by
law schools are available by contacting the schools or on their
websites.
Law School Admissions Profiles, published
by the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors, contains detailed
profiles of most ABA-approved law schools.
The NAPLA Law School Locator and The Boston
College Law School Range Finder, produced by Joe
Burns and Dom DeLeo, members of the Northeast Association of Pre-Law
Advisors, helps applicants assess their quantitative credentials
in relation to the LSAT and GPA requirements of law schools, and
to identify schools they might want to explore further.
The NAPLA-SAPLA Book of Law School Lists contains
information about law schools, including joint degree programs,
areas of emphasis without graduate degrees, treatment of multiple
LSAT scores by individual schools, schools that grant one-year
deferrals, bar passage rates at a number of schools, schools that
award non-need-based scholarships, study abroad, student journals,
and much more.
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Internet Resources
Boston College Law School Locator
The Boston College Law School Locator (prepared by Dom
DeLeo) lists the 25th to 75th percentile LSAT scores and
GPA ranges of first year classes at accredited law schools.
This means that half of a law school's entering class
scored in the range indicated. The Locator can help you
identify schools where your scores and grades are most
competitive for admission and help you gauge your chance
of admission at a particular school. The chart is useful
in evaluating law school choices but cannot determine
where you should or should not apply. The law schools
are placed in cells on the chart according to their 25th
percentile scores.
The NAPLA-SAPLA Book of Law School Lists
This is an extensive directory of law school academic programs, areas of emphasis without graduate degrees, joint degree programs, schools that award non-need-based scholarships, schools with evening divisions, study abroad programs, and much other useful information.
FinAid sponsored by the National
Association of Student Financial Administrators
This site will help you find loans, scholarships, military
aid, financial aid and applications. It also provides
you with a free scholarship search.
Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity,
International
P.A.D.'s Pre-Law Program resulted from extensive P.A.D.
Sponsored research and surveys which demonstrated that
no national organization was effectively addressing the
needs of pre-law students. When the results of P.A.D.'s
research was presented to law students, attorneys, and
judges on the floor of the 1980 P.A.D. International Convention
in Hot Springs, Arkansas, it was decided that Phi Alpha
Delta would accept the challenge to better equip pre-law
students for the rigors of law school and the legal profession.
The fundamental objective of P.A.D.'s Pre-Law Program
is to assist undergraduate students to make an "informed
choice" in selecting law as a career, deciding which law
school to attend, and in preparing for the rigors of law
school. Phi Alpha Delta remains the only Law Fraternity
and the only national legal organization of any kind with
a national Pre-Law Program committed to meeting the needs
of undergraduate students interested in the law.
Prelaw student services:
www.ilrg.com
This is a categorized index of more than 4000 select web
sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well
as more than 850 locally stored web pages and downloadable
files, this site was established to serve as a comprehensive
resource of the information available on the Internet
concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis
on the United States of America. Designed for everyone,
lay persons and legal scholars alike, it is quality controlled
to include only the most substantive legal resources online.
The selection criteria are predicated on two principles:
the extent to which the resource is unique, as well as
the relative value of the information it provides.
Law School Admissions Council
(LSAC)
Law School Admissions Council offers laws school admissions
research data, publications and news online with no account
needed.
www.lsac.org Online
LSAT Registration , Essential
LSAT Information
Online
Directory to law schools
pages:www.dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Law_Schools
General pre-law
information : www.findlaw.com/studyskills
This source provides you with information regarding what
to do before beginning to study in law school. The Legal
Learning Study Skills Workshop, is devoted to helping
you achieve your goals in law school from Carolyn Nygren,
author of the Starting off Right in Law School series
of books.
Access Group
www.accessgroup.org
Access Group, a nonprofit organization, has specialized in providing student loans for graduate and professional education for nearly 25 years. We offer federal and private student loans, money-saving payment incentives, borrower education materials, and a full range of online services for students and schools. Learn more at Access Group.
American Bar Association
www.abanet.org
As the world's largest voluntary professional membership
association, the ABA has access to expert opinions, quality
research and objective, high-quality reports-information
that you can trust. Plus, the ABA offers a national platform
to exchange ideas, discuss ethics, and explore important
legal issues. This site also includes links to the council
on Legal Education (CLEO).
The National Association for
Law Placement: www.nalp.org
Since 1971, NALP has served as the premier source of information
for legal career planning and recruitment. NALP's mission
is to meet the needs of all participants in the legal
employment process for information, coordination and standards.
NALP's members include virtually every ABA-accredited
law school and legal employers (law firms, government
agencies, corporations, and public interest organizations)
from across the country. The law school career services
professionals and lawyer personnel administrators who
represent their institutions in NALP work together to
advance NALP's mission.
The National Jurist magazine
www.natjurist.com
The National Jurist Magazine, founded in 1999, is the
premier e-commerce company specializing in multi-publisher
legal information products. Since our inception, we
have dedicated ourselves to serving pre-law students,
law students, attorneys, other legal professionals,
and anyone else interested in the law.
The National Law Journal
www.ljx.com/nlj/
Law.com is a single, comprehensive destination for legal
information and e-law services on the Web. In addition
to the main Law.com site, Law.com incorporates a vast
collection of legal related Web sites, including: · Law
News Network -- the most current and complete source for
legal news anywhere · Lawstuffusa.com -- the world's largest
online law bookstore for students and legal professionals
· Links to global Law.com sites -- the New York Law Journal's
Web site, www.nylj.com;
Cal Law, www.callaw.com;
and Tex Law, www.texlaw.com
Article about why the various law school rankings are not
valid: www.aba.org/journal/mar98/03FSCHOL.html
The Law Engine!'s huge amount of law-related info: www.fastsearch.com/law/
ABA
Career Resource Center's Pre-Law Toolkit
 The
ABA Career Resource Center's Pre-Law Toolkit, sponsored
by the National Association for Law Placement, is now
available online. You can access it at http://www.abanet.org/careercounsel/prelaw.html.
The ABA Career Resource Center's online Pre-Law Toolkit
for School Counselors includes all-new resources for use
in the classroom and interactively, as well as relevant
links within and beyond the ABA.
For further information, please enter the Toolkit on the
Career Counsel website using the above link, and feel
free to contact Jill Eckert of the ABA Career Resource
Center at 312.988.6215 or eckert@staff.abanet.org
with suggestions and questions.
Directory
of Law School Public Interest & Pro Bono Programs
www.abaprobono.org/lawschools
The Directory of Law School Public Interest and Pro Bono
Programs is now available online through the website of
the ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service
and its project, the Center for Pro Bono, at www.abaprobono.org
<http://www.abaprobono.org>.
The Directory provides current information on law school
public interest and pro bono programs and curricula. The
Directory is designed to help both prospective law students
interested in public interest and pro bono programs find
the law school that best matches their interest and to
assist individual law schools seeking to develop stronger
pro bono and public interest programs. Strong public interest
and pro bono programs at the law school level are important
for the support and training they provide to students
interested in public interest careers and for their role
in teaching every law student about his or her role in
achieving justice for all.
Law schools were surveyed over the winter of 2002 for information
on relevant programs. 148 of the 187 ABA-accredited law
schools completed and returned at least one survey. The
information in the Directory was collected from returned
surveys, follow-up contact, public information sources,
the 1999 edition of the ABA Directory of Law School Public
Interest Law Support Programs and the 2001 edition of
the AALS Law School Pro Bono Handbook. The "How to
Use" section of the Directory contains tips for searching
the directory.
To use the Directory, visit http://www.abaprobono.org/lawschools
Equal Justice Works www.equaljusticeworks.org/legaleducationreport
Equal Justice Works is providing advisors with an opportunity to both preview their new Guide to Public Service and provide feedback. Their primary goal is to provide law school applicants with an easy-to-use tool, free of charge, that will broaden their knowledge of schools' commitment to public service and help them make more informed choices about which law schools are the best fit for them. Given the level of interest in public service within the advisee population, you may find this Guide to be a valuable research tool to include among those you recommend to all those considering law.
NOTE: The following commercial services
are listed in order to inform prelaw advisors. Their inclusion
should not be construed as an endorsement by NAPLA. You may
use them at your risk. The reviews of these commercial services
we have obtained from prelaw advisors is mixed. This web site
has received no compensation from these commercial entities
for their listing.
Kaplan Educational Centers
Princeton Review (LSAT
PREP)
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Applying
to Law School
Choosing Wisely: NAPIL's Public Interest
Guide to Law Schools. Michael Caudell-Feagan. National Association
for Public Interest Law, 1992.
Getting Into Law School Today.
Thomas H. Martinson and David P. Waldherr. New York: Macmillan,
1994.
How to Write a Winning Personal Statement
for Graduate and Professional School. Richard J. Seltzer.
Princeton, New Jersey: Peterson's Guides, 1993.
Inside the Law Schools. S.F.
Goldfarb. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
The Insider's Guide to the Top Fifteen Law
Schools. Cynthia L. Cooper. New York: Doubleday,
1990.
Law School Companion. Paul
M. Lisnek, Steven I. Friedland, and Chris M. Salamone. New
York: Random House, Inc., 1995.
LSAT: The Official Triple Prep Plus. Newtown,
Pennsylvania: Law School Admission Council, 1995.
Official ABA Guide to Approved Law Schools.
New York, NY: American Bar Association, updated annually.
The Official Guide to US Law Schools. Newtown,
Pennsylvania: Law School Admission Council, updated annually.
The Official LSAT PrepTests. Newtown,
Pennsylvania: Law School Admission Council, updated regularly.
Perfect Personal Statements.
Mark Alan Stewart. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
Pro Bono in Law Schools. Chicago
and Washington, DC: American Bar Association and National
Association of Public Interest Law, 1991.
The Student Access Guide to the Best Law
Schools. Ian Van Tuyl. New York: Random House, 1995.
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Minority Advising
Directory of Financial Aids for Minorities,
1993-95. Gail Ann Schlachter. San Carlos, California:
Reference Service Press, 1993.
Thinking About Law School: A Minority Guide.
Newtown, Pennsylvania: Law School Admission Council, 1995.
Financial
Aid
Directory of Financial Aids for Minorities,
1993-95. Gail Ann Schlachter. San Carlos, California:
Reference Service Press, 1993.
Directory of Financial Aids for Women, 1993-95.
Gail Ann Schlachter. San Carlos, California: Reference
Service Press, 1993.
Financial Aid for Law School: A Preliminary
Guide. Newtown, Pennsylvania: Law School Admission
Council, 1995.
Financial Aid for the Disabled and Their
Families, 1994-96. Gail Ann Schlachter. San Carlos,
California: Reference Service Press, 1994.
Financial Aids for Minorities in Business
and Law. Garrett Park, Maryland: Garrett Park Press,
1994.
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Loans: 1994-95.
Deborah M. Kirby, Ed. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1994.
The PLANC Financial
Aid Toolkit is posted on the PLANC web site (www.planc.org)
and is available to pre-law advisors to use in providing information
to students and alumni about Financial Aid for Law School!
The site includes handouts and other resources that can be
made available to students and alumni who are interested in
law school. Pre-law advisors from non-profit educational institutions
are granted permission to use this product. Informational
materials on the web site can be reproduced and distributed
to advisees, or incorporated into a pre-law advising web site.
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Careers in Law
Careers in Law. Gary Munneke. Lincolnwood, Illinois:
VGM Career Horizons, 1993.
Directory of Legal Employers. Washington,
DC: National Association for Law Placement, 1994.
From Here to Attorney. J. Robert Arnett
II, Arthur Coon, and Michael DiGeronimo. Belmont, California:
Professional Publications, Inc., 1993.
Full Disclosure: Do You Really Want to Be a Lawyer?
Susan J. Bell, Ed. Princeton, New Jersey: Peterson's Guides,
1992.
Guide to Law Specialties. Washington,
DC: National Association for Law Placement, 1996.
How to Land Your First Paralegal Job. Andrea
Wagner. Estrin Publishing, 1992.
Law Firms Yellow Book. New York: Leadership Directories,
Inc., 1996.
Law Register International By Specialties and Fields
of Law. Shirley D. Phifer, Ed. Cleveland, Ohio:
Lawyer's Register Publishing Company, 1994.
Majoring in Law. Stefan Underhill. New
York: Noonday Press, 1995.
Opportunities in Law Careers. Gary A. Munneke.
Lincolnwood, Illinois: VGM Career Horizons, 1994.
Paralegal Internships: Finding, Managing, and Transitioning
Your Career, Ruth-Ellen Post, J.D., West Legal Studies,
1999
Paralegal: An Insider's Guide to One of the Fastest-Growing
Occupations of the 1990s. Barbara Bernardo. Princeton,
New Jersey: Peterson's Guides, 1993.
So You Want to Be a Lawyer: A Practical Guide to Law
as a Career. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell
Publishing Group, Inc., 1994.
The Insider's Guide to Law Firms. Sheila V. Malkani
and Michael F. Walsh, eds. Mobile, Colorado: Mobius Press,
1994.
The Legal Profession: Is It For You? Wayne L.
Anderson and Marilyn J. Headrick. Cincinnati, Ohio: Thomson
Executive Press, 1996.
The NAPIL Director of Public Interest Legal Internships
1995/96. Washington, DC: The National Association
for Public Interest Law, 1995.
The Student's Guide to Legal Internships.
Washington, DC: National Internships, 1996.
Washington, DC Internships in Law and Policy. Winston-Salem,
North Carolina: Career Education Institutes, 1996.
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Additional Resources
Law school catalogs and bulletins
Law School Admissions Profiles (admissions
profiles of most ABA-approved law schools made available
to sole or coordinating pre-law advisors by LSAC)
Notebooks with career information, law school
rankings, and scholarship opportunities
Videotapes and audiotapes of programs on law
schools or legal careers
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