Legal Professions
This law involves issues related to naturalization, visa, labor certification, deportation, fraud investigation, and political asylum.
Immigration Law
Is sending your undergraduate transcript to law schools part of the admissions process?
YES!
120
3 years.
A person who brings action to a court of law
What is a plaintiff?
A legal field that typically involves working in smaller firms and specializing in a variety of areas ranging from child welfare, through adoption, to divorce.
Family Law
Do you need to take the LSAT to get into a law school?
NO! Some schools accept the GRE
What is a resource offered by LSAC that helps alleviate the cost of the LSAT?
LSAT/LSAC Fee Waiver
What is the number one ranked law school(s) in the United States?
Yale and Stanford University
The attorney presenting the state in a criminal case
What is a prosecutor?
Predominantly relates to Intellectual Property Law, but is more specifically centered on rights and royalties issues to media in the arts, music, television, cinema, or athletics.
Entertainment Law
Do you have to take a gap year or years to get into a Top 14 law school?
What is the total amount of sections on the LSAT? (NOT the LSAT-Flex and NOT counting the separate Writing test)
4 sections as of August 2024
Two Logical Reasoning (LR) sections and one Reading Comprehension (RC) section, plus one unscored section of either LR or RC
The Top 10 law schools all have median GPA's of this number or higher.
3.7
A defendant who is not considered to be an adult.
What is a juvenile?
What is a lawyer appointed by courts to represent people who can’t afford to hire a private attorney?
Public Defender
Do all schools interview applicants before admitting them?
NO! Some law schools do interviews, but not all
What is the name of the section on the regular LSAT that goes unscored? (NOT the LSAT Flex and not the Writing section)
Experimental Section
Name 3 of the Top 10 law schools.
Yale University, Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, New York University, University of Pennsylvania (Carey), University of Virginia, Northwestern University, UC Berkeley.
Procedures used to obtain disclosure of evidence before trial.
What is a discovery?
What is the most common area of law practiced in the United States?
Commercial litigation
What is the difference between early decision and early action applications?
Early decision applications are binding
Early action applications are nonbinding
How many times can you take the LSAT in your lifetime?
7 times
Name 3 law school application requirements.
Undergrad transcripts, LSAT and/or GRE, application fee, letters of recommendation, personal statement, resume
A court order preventing one or more named parties from taking some action
What is an injunction?