The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school) (Paperback)

by Andrew J. McClurg (Author) "Welcome to The Law School Trip, the authoritative insider's guide to law school..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Review
"A delicious read from beginning to end." -- Grif Stockley -- author of Probable Cause and Religious Conviction

"Fly, drive, walk, or crawl to buy The Law School Trip, a superb and highly entertaining parody of legal education." -- Professor Timothy R. Zinnecker

"Heaps and mounds of undulating and ululating laughter. ... McClurg makes the law school experience sparkle and shine." -- The Law Teacher (Fall 2001)

"Howlingly, gut-wrenchingly, turn purple and blow food out your nose funny!" -- The Bimonthly Review of Law Books, July-August 2001

"McClurg brings legal humor to new heights. ... Very, very funny!" -- Professor Myron Moskovitz

"More pure pleasure than anything I've read in months." -- Professor Marianne Wesson -- bestselling author of Render Up the Body and A Suggestion of Death

"The perfect antidote for legal education... A must read for law students, professors, and lawyers." -- Professor Gerry Hess -- Director of the Institute for Law School Teaching

"What a ‘Trip'! ... Truly a classic of legal humor." -- Professor David G. Owen

"[A] one of a kind piece of work that you don't have to a lawyer or law student to love." -- Text-Book.com, reviewed by Jessica Bradburn

"[D]ispense[s] buckets of advice without ever removing tongue from cheek. ... [A] loving parody ... from the eyes of one who knows." -- National Jurist, The Magazine for Law Students (Jan. 2002)

Product Description
What would you get if you crossed Dave Barry, psychedelic substances and law school? Something like The Law School Trip (the insider's guide to law school), a dizzying, hilarious tour of legal education.

Dozens of books have been written about law school, but The Law School Trip is the only insider's account written by a law professor. It's also the most twisted. McClurg – the world's most widely-read legal humorist – takes readers on a wild ride through law school from application process through the bar exam, blending true insider insights with his unique brand of laugh-out-loud parody.

Sing along with Law's Greatest Hits. Meet Strange Creatures from Outer Space and other law faculty. Learn to survive the Socratic method with treatable injuries. And be prepared to hold your sides and laugh out loud the whole way.

The Law School Trip isn't a typical "how to succeed in law school" book. It's more like a "how to succeed in keeping your sanity while freaking out about law school" book. But it's not just for law students. Every lawyer who has suffered through three years of law school needs to read this book.

Even non-lawyers will appreciate this upside-down, inside-look at legal education. Ever wonder what law school is like? Ever worry about why all those lawyers on Geraldo turned out the way they did? Ever "think about" going to law school? Join the 99.9 percent of Americans who do.

Take the law school trip. Come along if you dare.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing (June 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552126463
• ISBN-13: 978-1552126462
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #634,720 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A different take on the law school experience..., September 3, 2001

By A Customer

Product Warning: This book may help save your mental health, although it will inflame your funny bone. Stressed to the max by the heavy reading, Socratic method, and other burdens of starting law school? Buy this book! Laughter really is the best medicine and this book provides plenty of it. I read one Amazon customer review of The Law School Trip that compared it to the "how to succeed in law school" books, but it's not that kind of book. Although it contains a lot of insights -- sometimes subtly disguised -- it's primarily a hilarious parody of the esteemed institution we call legal education. I couldn't recommend it more highly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great giggles, May 28, 2001

By	Jacquie Brennan (Houston, Texas) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book should be required material for every first year law student, although they will appreciate it in an entirely different way when they've got a semester or two behind them. There was not a single page of this book that didn't make me laugh out loud. If you are thinking about going to law school (and who isn't?), a law school student, a lawyer, or someone who is related to a person in one of those categories, buy this book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll laugh out loud!, May 25, 2001

By A Customer

A must for anyone who has ever thought about going to law school (which, as the author reminds us, is just about everyone.) McClurg must be the funniest law professor around. And there's a kernel of truth in just about everything he says. McClurg is dead on in describing types of law professors (including "The Legend," "The Radical Feminist," and "The Strange Creature from Outer Space.") He can make the deadliest dull (and most famous) cases studied in the first year of law school seem funny. And McClurg's suggested improvements to actual product warnings are absolutely hysterical. It's quite an accomplishment to make me, a lawyer, laugh out loud. Read the book and you will too.