dta: I'm just following the 3-month plan as laid out in Planet Law School II. Most people won't recommend this book because they think it's too negative. That may be so, but the materials he has you go over are very useful. Your basically working over study aids now that you might buy later for your first year classes. I have bought the Aspen Primers Examples and Explanations series for every first year course, along with the LEEWS exam taking system, the CALI computer program (that has law courses on it), and some other books on briefing cases, etc. I really don't think this kind of preparation can hurt you; it gives you a knowledge base to work from in law school, and it also introduces you to the type of reasoning you can expect in law school. Lots of hypotheticals and what-if situations. There is actually a one year program in the book, so you could start on LS prep soon if you wanted. I was actually thinking of trying to defer my acceptance to LS until the Spring so I could study it all at my leisure (yes-I am anal retentive), but I think my LS would have laughed at me when I told them the reason I wanted the deferral. One of the great things about these primers is that you get a taste for which subjects you like. I dig contracts and torts, and can't stand civil procedure. I was afraid law school would be really boring, but I enjoy these books. That's not to say reading cases will be as interesting as reading primers, but since it is the same subject there should still be a healthy level of interest (I hope). Anyway, you can get all 8 books plus the LEEWS (tapes+book) along with CALI for around 350-450. Considering the average person graduates with 80K in debt, that's not a lot for the possible influence it could have on your law school performance.
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