Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer
Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer

Author: Randall Kiser

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1108267378

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In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction. It identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills. The book should be read by law students, attorneys, and anyone else interested in how lawyers should practice law.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Life After Law
Life After Law

Author: Liz Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1351861476

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Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life After Law shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership into an alternative career and draws from this experience, as well as that of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book. She acknowledges that changing careers is hard much harder than it was for most lawyers to get their first legal job after law school but it can ultimately be more fulfilling for many than a life in law. Life After Law offers an alternative framework and valuable analytic tools for potential careers to help launch lawyers into new fields and make them attractive hires for non-legal employers.

Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services, 4th Ed
Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services, 4th Ed

Author: J. Curtis Varone

Publisher: Fire Engineering Books

Published: 2022-01-10

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 159370576X

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THE LAW HAS EVOLVED & SO HAS LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS The long-awaited 4th edition of Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services is an essential textbook for any course on fire service law as well as an indispensable desk reference for day-to-day fire department administration. Author J. Curtis Varone, a practicing attorney and experienced firefighter explores comprehensive coverage of the major legal issues in the fire and EMS services, such as negligence; immunity; criminal law; arson; search and seizure; FLSA wage and hour over time issues; employment discrimination; sexual harassment; FMLA; Americans with Disabilities Act; public records laws; open meetings requirements; drug testing; due process; collective bargaining for firefighters; OSHA and the relationship between NFPA standards and OSHA enforcement; EMS related topics such as consent, implied consent, informed consent, the role of DNR orders, living wills, and durable powers of attorney for health care decisions; refusals against medical advice; and much more. FEATURES OF THE FOURTH EDITION: --Updated case law on employment discrimination and newly enacted laws mandating sexual harassment policies and training in the workplace --New US Supreme Court case law on union security provisions --Marijuana law update including the impact of legalized hemp, recreational marijuana, and medical marijuana on drug testing of firefighters --New guidance for social media, digital imagery, and electronic surveillance --Meets the latest requirements for FESHE’s Legal Aspects of the Fire Service as well as Political and Legal Foundations for Fire Protection

Research Administration and Management
Research Administration and Management

Author: Elliott Kulakowski

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 945

ISBN-13: 076373277X

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This reference text addresses the basic knowledge of research administration and anagement, and includes everything from a review of research administration and the infrastructure that is necessary to support research, to project development and post-project plans. Examples of concepts, case studies, a glossary of terms and acronyms, and references to books, journal articles, monographs, and federal regulations are also included.