Pre-Law Resources

Pre-Professional Advising Center Pre-Law listserv
- Sign up for our weekly newsletter and to receive important pre-law announcements using your UC email.
PPAC suggested legal readings, podcasts and more -www.uc.edu/preproadvising/PPACResourceLibrary.html

UC Accessibility Resources
- Students can work with AR for assistance with receiving accomodated LSAT testing

UC libraries - There are dozens and dozens of books addressing legal topics, legal specialities, law school, etc.

The LSAT - Official LSAT information, registration and more, from the Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
PPAC's LSAT resource web page for a listing of preparation resources

College to Congress - Congressional internship program on Capitol Hill
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute: Internship Program Application: chci.org/programs/congressional-internship-program/
Washington Center Internships in Washington, D.C. - Many pre-law students gain real-world experience across different governmental agencies through the Washington Center internship program.
Summer Work Experience in Law (SWEL) program - Cincinnati Legal internship program geared toward underrepresented minority students interested in law school and a legal career
Sidley Prelaw Scholars Program - The Sidley Prelaw Scholars Program is designed to increase diversity in law schools and the legal profession by helping diverse, high-performing college students with financial needs offset the high costs of LSAT preparation classes and admissions applications and by helping them prepare for the first year of law school.
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Should You Really Be a Lawyer? by Deborah Schneider & Gary Belsky

XPlore JD by AccessLex Institute
- A data-based approach to finding the institutions that best meet what students want and need in their law school experience. XploreJD is a free, online search tool by which students answer a series of questions for six primary factors in the law school decision-making process—Location, Cost, Enrollment, Diversity, Curriculum and Outcomes—and then prioritize the attributes that will most impact their final selection.
Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools
ABA Standard 509 Information Reports
LexisNexis - How to Prepare for Law School
The Wilson-Stern Book of Law School Lists

Max Pre-Law
- An online suite of resources offering interactive lessons, webinars, worksheets, checklists and even one-on-one financial strategy coaching from Accredited Financial Counselors (AFC®) and other financial aid experts – to provide aspiring law students with answers to their most pressing questions.
- Lessons include Your Law School Investment, Paying for Law School, Getting into Law School and Understanding Law School Admissions and Financial Aid. MAX Pre-Law is available FREE to all aspiring law students.
AccessConnex
- Service that provides on-demand, one-on-one student loan and financial education information to incoming graduate and professional students to help set them on a sound financial path.
Financing Your Legal Education & other webinars

Diversity and Implicit Bias

Harvard’s free implicit bias quizzes. Find out your implicit associations about race, gender, sexual orientation, and other topics implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

PWC’s video series on identifying blind spots www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/blind-spots.html

J.D. Advantage Careers
- What is a JD advantage career? In recent years, the term of art “J.D. advantage” was coined to describe careers that don’t require a license to practice law but for which applicants would be greatly advantaged in the job search process if they’ve earned a J.D. These careers span across the public and private sectors and touch on almost all industries involved in the job search today.
- Learn more from NationalJurist.com, as well as the American Bar Association for Law Students.

Legal Occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- You can still be connected to the legal fied without earning a J.D. Read about careers as Mediators, Arbitrators, Legal assitants and more.

Master's degrees and other degrees and certificates
- Read about what the LSAC says about programs including Master of Legal Studies (MLS), Master of Science in Law (MSL), Legal Certificate Programs, Doctor of Sciene of Law www.lsac.org/applying-law-school/types-law-degrees
- Master of Science in Law in Corporate Compliance - Fordham Law