Junior Lawyer's Handbook

Junior Lawyer's Handbook

Author: Eloise Skinner

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781784461300

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'The Junior Lawyer's Handbook' is the comprehensive career guide for every new lawyer making the transition from student to legal professional. Filled with practical guidance, exercises and actionable advice, this book is essential for those looking to upskill and integrate themselves into a new working world.


A Life in the Law

A Life in the Law

Author: William S. Duffey

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781604425963

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This book offers a unique opportunity to sit down with a diverse gathering of lawyers to share their perspectives on being a lawyer. In this compelling collection of essays, the contributors write about the values of the profession, a lawyers responsibility to their communities, their duty of service to clients, and to the public and to each other. This book can provide the guidance you need should you ever feel that you are losing your way.


The Path to Partnership

The Path to Partnership

Author: Steven C. Bennett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0313052034

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Drawn from the author's many years in training and developing junior associates, this book provides insight into some of the most common problems that can affect the career development of new lawyers, and offers practical advice for navigating the crucial first years. Bennett offers practical guidance on topics from determining whether firm life is the right fit to preparing for partnership. Tips and strategies for honing communication and presentation skills, managing your time, and networking effectively will help make the culture work for you and ensure a path to success. Freshly minted J.D.s may be well prepared for the technical and procedural aspects of practicing law, but the real world of law firm culture is bound to offer some surprises. Drawn from the author's many years in training and developing junior associates, this book provides insight into some of the most common problems that can affect the career development of new lawyers, and offers practical advice for navigating the crucial first years. Bennett offers practical guidance on topics from determining whether firm life is the right fit to preparing for partnership. Tips and strategies for honing communication and presentation skills, managing your time, and networking effectively will help make the culture work for you and ensure a path to success. Bennett picks up where the formal education process leaves off. Presenting a wide variety of scenarios and situations, he shows how to read the unspoken signals that reflect relationships of power and influence, and how to tap into them. He also advocates a solid grounding in the basics, covering such practical skills as writing memoranda, managing meetings, handling delegation of work, and receiving constructive criticism, while developing a reputation for being dependable, organized, clear-thinking, and enthusiastic. The result is a lively and eminently useful guide that will help you avoid job-killing moves, set and achieve realistic goals, and build a fulfilling legal career.


Behind the Biglaw Curtain

Behind the Biglaw Curtain

Author: Marissa Geannette

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-19

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781734922318

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Guidebook for junior lawyers navigating their first few years as associates in "Biglaw." Advice from a former Biglaw attorney on how to succeed in the challenging legal environment that is Biglaw. Tips on how to achieve success no matter your goal. An insider's real perspective.


A Guide for Young Lawyers (and Others)

A Guide for Young Lawyers (and Others)

Author: Kaamil Ansar

Publisher: Outskirts Press

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9781977217400

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This book applies to young lawyers starting out in practice (and others). The principles in this book reflect the author's experiences over 38 years (being admitted to practice in three jurisdictions) in a transactional and litigation practice on multiple continents. This book is applicable to young business lawyers. The book is lawyer-specific with an emphasis on a U.S. transactional or litigation practice. However, the general principles described have universal application to any lawyer anywhere that is starting-out in practice, any young person considering a career in the law or starting out in his or her career, or any person anywhere looking to get to the next level. The book introduces the reader to a number of personalities from the world of professional sports that have in all cases achieved stunning successes in their careers and each represents the triumph of the human spirit. Their experiences are highlighted from time to time and are significant and very relevant to the reader and the book. The fundamental premise of the book is that there is no sense in trying to learn all the lessons of life the hard way - from one's own personal experience. It is much more efficient to learn from the experience of others who have been successful in competitive situations. The author places much importance on some of the experiences of the wonderful personalities that are conveyed to the reader in the book. Their experiences include competing and winning and losing at the highest levels in professional sports, among other facets, and complement substantially all the principles and objectives of this book. The author believes these experiences will enrich the reader's journey as it progresses in the book and will add much value to the development of the reader's practice. The author believes that the work the reader puts into achieving the objectives of this book will be hugely beneficial to the reader over the long-term. The book will describe to the reader the principles that it needs to focus on to reach the next level in his or her career and will provide the necessary guidance. By the end of the book, the reader will find that each of these principles will be self-fulfilling and reinforce each other and provide the reader with a solid foundation for future success.