If you prepare for law school exams by doing problems, as I do, this is a great series of books to use. It doesn't have any black-letter law summaries, so don't expect it to teach you the material, but what it does have are detailed issue-spotter problems -- the kind your professors will most likely be asking you to answer on their exams. Even better, it has full essay answers to the problems, so you'll be able to read an "A"-type answer written by a law professor and learn how yours differs from that. I used Siegel's as often as I could during law school and was able to beat the curve more often using their products than anyone else's.

The multiple choice questions in this book get you prepared for the exam. However, the Freer supplement by Aspen books will teach you everything you need to know about Civil Procedure. Prof. Freer refers to his method as spoon feeding, and the book does just that. It takes you through every section of every rule and tells you how to analyze every problem confronting you on your CivPro exam.