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.


Alternative Careers for Lawyers

Alternative Careers for Lawyers

Author: Hillary Jane Mantis

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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Rethinking your career strategy Suggestions for nonlegal careers Advice for dealing with the financial ramifications of leaving the practice of law Real-life success stories Lawyers have the highest depression rates, highest pressure, lowest popularity ratings, and the longest hours of almost any profession that exists. No wonder that according to a recent poll 70% of lawyers surveyed said they would start a new career if they could. If you are disillusioned by the realities of law practice or want to get into a different type of law, then you can start a new career. In Alternative Careers for Lawyers, you'll hear from many people who managed successful transitions: one of them is an NBC news anchor, another started her own bicycle tours company, and yet another built a $20 million attorney temp agency. We'll show you how to manage every step of this uncertain yet ultimately liberating process: Deciding whether to change careers or just switch jobs Choosing which new careers to pursue Re-tailoring your resume for non-legal careers like education, consulting, publishing, and sales and marketing Networking, interviewing, furthering your education, and more


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.


Judgment Reversed

Judgment Reversed

Author: Jeffrey Strausser

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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In spite of the hard work and commitment that law school demands, many law graduates and practicing attorneys find that they don't want to practice law. Jeffrey Strausser has written this book to help those individuals explore other career choices where they can still utilize their legal training. Journalism and editorial work, education, marketing, public relations, and finance are just a few of the many fields lawyers can pursue.


Tricks of the Trade (and Professional) Associations

Tricks of the Trade (and Professional) Associations

Author: Richard Lee Hermann

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 9781946228253

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In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 13, Tricks of the Trade (and Professional) Associations: A Huge ¿Hidden¿ Legal Job Market, examines the largely under the radar legal career opportunities in the 95,000 U.S. trade and professional associations. Formed as non-profits, they defy the typical image of what comes to mind when legal job-seekers hear that term. Rather than a struggling advocacy or public interest organization with its hand out, begging for donations and paying its staff peanuts, Hermann counters these associations share four features that should be of interest to every attorney:1.They have substantial assets (more than $2 trillion in the aggregate);2.They employ tens of thousands of attorneys;3.You can find these attorneys in places other than just the in-house counsel office; and4.They are corporations. Consequently, they share many of the structural features of their for-profit counterparts. Lawyers who work for their in-house counsel offices have many of the same responsibilities as their commercial company brethren. And, like their commercial counterparts, associations hire lawyers for a wide variety of JD Advantage jobs.Highlights include:¿An Association Primer ¿Why Is the Association Job Market Hot? ¿Where Do Lawyers Work in Associations? ¿Selected JD Advantage Job Titles ¿Positioning Yourself for an Association Legal Job ¿What Do Association Jobs Pay? ¿Advance Notice of Association Job OpportunitiesWhy Do Associations Hire Attorneys? The principal reason attorneys are prized by associations is because so much of what these organizations do is informed and infused by law. Almost every aspect of association work has some legal orientation or component, or requires legal input. Lawyers are in the best position to serve in an array of association positions because they can perform so many of the missions that give rise to associations, make them relevant, and keep them in business.Hermann takes you behind the scenes and details how you can build a fulfilling career in this often overlooked, vibrant career arena.


Fifty Legal Careers for Non-lawyers

Fifty Legal Careers for Non-lawyers

Author: Ursula Furi-Perry

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781590319277

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This thorough, easy-to-use handbook helps the reader select a law career best suited to one's interests, training, and aptitude, where a law degree is not a requirement. Each of the fifty careers profiled in the book includes interviews with people currently in that job; sample responsibilities; typical education and skills necessary; and further resources to help find out more, and how to enter the field. This new book from the American Bar Association is a must-have for anyone planning their future in law.


Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities

Physicians’ Pathways to Non-Traditional Careers and Leadership Opportunities

Author: Richard D. Urman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-12-04

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1461405513

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Increasingly, physicians are leveraging their medical training and expertise to pursue careers in non-traditional arenas. Their goals are diverse: · Explore consulting as a way to improve patient care · Lay the foundation for a career in academic medicine · Provide leadership in healthcare · Strengthen ties between a clinic and the community · Broaden one’s experience as a medical student · As a journalist or writer, open a window onto medicine for non-experts Some physicians will pursue another degree, while others may not, in anticipation of moving into public service, business, education, law, or organized medicine. Their common ground is the desire to enhance their professional fulfillment. Drs. Urman and Ehrenfeld’s book features individual chapters on the wide array of non-traditional careers for physicians, each one written by an outstanding leader in medicine who him- or herself has successfully forged a unique career path. A final chapter brings together fascinating brief profiles – “case studies” – of physicians who have distinguished themselves professionally outside of traditional settings. Suitable for readers at any point in their medical career – practitioners, fellows, residents, and medical students – who want to explore possibilities beyond traditional medical practice, the book also sets out common-sense advice on topics such as work-life balance, mentorship, and the relationship between personality and job satisfaction.


Law School Confidential

Law School Confidential

Author: Robert H. Miller

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-07-14

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780312243098

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I wish I knew then what I know now! Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience...read this book! Written for students about to embark on this three year odyssey, by students who have successfully survived law school. Law School Confidential demystifies the life-altering thrill ride that defines an American legal education by providing a comprehensive, blow-by-blow, chronological account of what to expect. Law School Confidential arms students with a thorough overview of the contemporary law school experience. This isn't the advice of graying professors or battle-scarred practitioners decades removed from the law school. Fresh out of University of Pennsylvania Law School, Robert Miller has assembled a panel of recent law school graduates all of whom are perfectly positioned to shed light on what law school is like today. Law School Confidential invites you to walk in their steps to success and to learn from their mistakes. From taking the LSAT, to securing financial aid, to navigating the notorious first semester, to exam-taking strategies, to applying for summer internships, to getting on the law review, to tackling the bar and beyond...Law School Confidential explains it all.