Black's Law Dictionary: Abridged Version (Dictionary)

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Bought it for a friend who was a first year and it has helped him immensely in school.

I bought this dictionary along with the pocket version for school. Although I do agree with the prior rating that the cover could be slightly nicer, I am happy with my purchase. My cover has not scratched nor bent. I find the tabs very helpful.
The book looks very nice on my bookshelf, and the other hardbacks that I have viewed are not much cheaper. If you are looking to save money, buy the pocket edition. But, if you are going to spend the money for a hardback, I would suggest something that is not only useful but looks nice as well.

I considered buying this when I started law school. However, my school provides law students with free subscriptions to both Westlaw and Lexis online, and the entire school is set up with wireless internet. Therefore, the full version of Black's is easily available to me online any time I'm on campus. A laptop with wireless LAN is probably more important for college students these days than most paper references.

If you don't have easy online access, this may be useful. If you are like me, and online any time you're doing schoolwork, then save your pennies and use the online versions. When you are in your own practice, and having to pay by the search for online research, then you may want a paper dictionary, however you'll probably want the full size one on your desk, rather than the pocket version in your backpack.

Don't, however, try to substitute a non-law dictionary. That won't provide what you are looking for as a lawyer or law student.

I have used this dictionary for many years while I worked in a law firm in Argentina with relationships with multinatinal companies. Now that I am practising on my own I needed this book for the correct use of English legal term in my contact with internatinal clients. Great book.