- Law School Admission Council
- Law School Numbers – Resource to compare top law schools
- Boston College Law Locator – The Boston College Law School Locator lists the 25th to 75th percentile LSAT scores and GPA ranges of first year classes at accredited law schools with part-time programs.
- Noodle – Law Schools
- Law School Transparency – A great resource with a mission to make entry to the legal profession more transparent, affordable, and fair.
- American Bar Association – Professional association with resources including the ABA-approved Law Schools, Pro-bono programs, legal employment statistics and more.
- National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
Recommended Books and Articles
- Cracking the Case Method – This is a great book for helping students see the why and how behind what they’re being asked to do in law school and connects the case method/Socratic method approach to law teaching to the problem method means of assessment (aka exams)
- 1000 Days to the Bar – This is a practical book that breaks law school learning strategies into understandable, logical and practical steps that maximize the effect of students’ study efforts, and explicitly ties those learning strategies to the strategies practicing lawyers use to understand, analyze and apply legal concepts in the real life representation of their clients.
- Don’t Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor’s Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk – Going to law school has become a very expensive and increasingly risky gamble. When is it still worth it? This book reveals which law schools are still worth attending, at what price, and what sorts of legal careers it makes sense to pursue today. It outlines the various economic and psychological traps law students and new lawyers fall into, and how to avoid them.