Where to buy Lawbooks

Where to Buy New and Used Law Books and Casebooks, Casebriefs and Law Study Guides and Aids.

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We get lots of emails from all kinds of students about all kinds of problems. One that we have yet to address is where to get lawbooks.

We must say that the most important factor is you must find an honest law book store to purchase your materials from.

Our first bit of advice is to buy all the used law books and materials you can. If you can get what you need used from other students at your school do it. If you can, avoid buying from your local law school store as they are usually run by Barnes and Noble, Follett or some other large company. The people who work there know nothing about the materials they sell. Their goal is not to sell you what you need but to sell you all they can. And because of your anxieties about law school you will buy, buy and buy some more and most of what you buy will not be what you need. If you can avoid buying from school bookstores.

We Found the Best Place to Get Your Used Casebooks, Law Outlines and Law Study Aid Products.

Here is how we did our research into who to buy from. We went online and searched for law bookstores. We placed orders with 14 different stores. After receiving our orders we had to contact 4 of the stores as they sent us the wrong materials. Since three of the four did not have phone numbers it was impossible to resolve any problems.

Do not do business with a law book store that does not have a phone number. Of the 4 who sent the wrong materials, we got satisfaction from one of them, the one we could call. However, it was immediately evident that the person taking orders was not familiar with law books or law school materials.

Of the remaining 10, we took them up on the guarantees on their sites. We then returned the books to each of them telling them we made a mistake or we dropped the course and had not used the books. We got a refund from only one, despite all having guarantees on their sites of no problem refunds.

We eventually got refunds from the other nine law bookstores by having to report the transactions to Visa.

The one who did not give us any problems at all was the Law Bookstore in Anaheim California. We visited the store in February 2006 and we were very impressed with the owner's knowledge of all the materials and the very helpful suggestions made as we purchased more materials. We were told what materials were really good and what materials were marginal. He actually knows his stuff and went to law school!

There were a lot of used materials available. We give them a 4.9 out of 5. We put a link to their site on the right. Another independent store we found very good was Gibson's Books and Beans in Lansing Michigan but they don't have a web site.

If any of the others that we looked at improve we will let you know. This report was written on April 10, 2006 and we updated the material on July 12, 2007 and there are no changes. We updated the materials again on April 10, 2008 and three of the online stores are gone. We guess they went out of business. The Law Bookstore is still by far the best. They are a good company.