The Unconventional Lawyer
The Unconventional Lawyer

Author: Bradley K Ross

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-05-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This is a story about both a renegade attorney and about his young associate who uncovers the unethical followed by the criminal behavior of his wayward boss. Brian Roth is a fictionalized version of the author when he first started practicing law in the 1980s in San Diego, California. The events in this story are based on real situations he personally encountered or knew of, fictionalized true events that are woven into a story of good versus evil, right versus wrong, legal versus illegal. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty. After passing the Bar, Brian Roth had no job offers, at least from conventional firms or government agencies. As a result, without any other offers, he takes an unusual hybrid associate job, which unfortunately was the only job he could get. He starts work in a small San Diego law office working for Mr. Thomas Fair, an unconventional combative sole practitioner. Mr. Fair, while outwardly appearing only a truculent narcissistic lawyer, is under the surface a much more sinister person as Brian slowly uncovers. Even Brian, as a novice attorney, sees the wrong in his new boss' actions and has to make difficult choices, choices to keep himself employed, choices to keep his Bar card, choices to stay alive. Just as many young adults begin their careers, as Brian Roth enters the legal world, he also enters into a personal relationship that culminates in him taking a dramatic step. In both his personal life and his life as a new lawyer, Brian must react to circumstances that life has presented. This story proves the old adage, the truth is stranger than fiction.

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.

Unconventional Wisdom
Unconventional Wisdom

Author: Robert Zausner

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781680980622

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"This book was written for trial lawyers who handle wrongful injury cases. It's about how to achieve great results for your clients. This book teaches what we believe works best in civil litigation and why. Great advocacy in the moment, informed by the decades of experience we have brought to life in these pages, is sure to enhance your clients' causes-much more than mechanical adherence to yesterday's stale bromides. We hope that much of what we've learned can be useful for practitioners, offering new ways of seeing perhaps, and visions of how to have a satisfying career in the law. But we don't profess to know everything; every case and every situation is different, requiring different strategies for achieving a successful resolution. As we're fond of noting: "You learn half of what you need to know in your first year as a lawyer and half of each remaining half in each successive year. You never learn it all." What produces the wisdom necessary to make the right decisions in civil litigation? It's some unmeasurable combination of experience, know-how, common sense, hard work, and deep knowledge of the case facts and applicable law. Beyond the "how we do it" in this book is the question of "why we do it." The enormity of what's at stake in our clients' cases moves us to action. Too often, innocent people are catastrophically injured by the careless, reckless, or even intentionally wrongful acts of others. We work to right these wrongs, not just for the men and women who've hired us, but also for society at large, by obtaining remediation of improper practices. In essence, we are private attorneys general, reforming corporate, hospital, individual, and governmental conduct for the benefit of our community and the nation. We strive to bring justice where there has been injustice and to use our abilities to help those in need. We do so without fear of those who would bend the tort system back to the days when the courthouse doors were closed to so many. The civil justice system is the best check on the free enterprise system. Our nation needs excellent trial lawyers to protect and advance the rights of all"--

13 Things Successful Law Firm Owners DON't Do
13 Things Successful Law Firm Owners DON't Do

Author: Christopher Small

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13:

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13 Things Successful Law Firm Owners DON'T Do has one goal: to get you to focus on WHAT MATTERS when it comes to the success of your law firm. Are you working too many hours with too little to show for it? Have you lost the belief that you can own a law firm and live your best life? Do you wish you could discover the secret those "other" law firm owners know about getting good paying clients consistently? Do you work all day busting your butt only to look back and feel like you barely moved the needle? IF YOU ANSWERED "YES" TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS THEN YOU NEED... 13 THINGS SUCCESSFUL LAW FIRM OWNERS DON'T DO. So often when it comes to law firm success, it's not the home run or the magic pill that leads to success (spoiler alert - it's NEVER that), but the consistent application of fundamental principles over and over and over again. Christopher Small is a lawyer, law firm owner, father, public speaker, podcaster, entrepreneur, business coach, and the founder of the SANCTUARY. He has created two successful multiple six-figure law firms, one in criminal defense and personal injury, and one in estate planning and probate (which he still runs to this day). Christopher is the creator of The Unconventional Attorney podcast, a show he uses to discuss his unique approach to building and running a successful law firm, choosing to focus less on the old school norms taught and imprinted in lawyers from day one in law school, and instead relying on modern day marketing opportunities and systems to create a situation in which clients are happy and the firm is happy (and HIGHLY profitable). This book is a codification of thirteen of the rules Christopher uses to make decisions related to his firm and his life. Some of the principles are simple to understand but hard to implement. All of them will move the needle for your law firm if you can integrate them. Christopher created a short book on purpose. The goal of this book is not to have you walking away believing he is the next best thing. The goal of this book is to help you make moves to get you on track to achieving your dreams TODAY.

THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE
THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE

Author: William H. Simon

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 9780674002753

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William Simon, a legal theorist with experience in practice, here argues that the profession's standard approach to questions of legal ethics is incoherent and implausible, insisting the critical weakness is the style of judgment.

Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21St Century
Avoiding Extinction: Reimagining Legal Services for the 21St Century

Author: Mitchell Kowalski

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1491793163

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“Mitch Kowalski has translated his considerable understanding of tomorrow’s legal profession into an original, provocative and entertaining narrative.” —Professor Richard Susskind, author of The End of Lawyers? “This is the most innovative law practice management book I’ve ever seen. Mitch has deftly combined an engaging novel about the lives of working lawyers with an illuminating treatise on how law firms must respond to extraordinary change in the legal marketplace. Avoiding Extinction is as entertaining as it is instructive -- and it couldn’t be more timely.” —Jordan Furlong, Partner, Edge International “This is a must read for managing partners, and for all lawyers under the age of 50. Written as a parable, once you pick it up it’s difficult to put down. And it literally screams relevance to the lives of those lawyers today who worry about the sustainability of the current model of legal practice. Big firm or small. City or rural – no matter, this book is for you. Can the law be both a profession and a business? Is it possible to escape the tyranny of the billable hour? Is it realistic to imagine being a truly happy lawyer in private practice in the twenty-first century? You bet – and Mitch Kowalski shows us how! —Ian Holloway QC, Dean of Law, The University of Calgary “Avoiding Extinction is the most original, far-thinking and innovative book on transforming the way that law is practised that I have ever read. Mitch has taken the traditional law firm and turned it upside down. In the process he has reworked the law firm model and given us an insight into how a firm could be structured and run. If you are looking for a creative vision into what a new, truly different law firm could look like, then this book is manna from heaven.” —David J. Bilinsky, Practice Management Advisor, lawyer and writer on law practice management and technology. Creator of the law blog, Thoughtful Legal Management.

Glass Half Full
Glass Half Full

Author: Benjamin H. Barton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-05-15

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0190205571

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The hits keep coming for the American legal profession. Law schools are churning out too many graduates, depressing wages, and constricting the hiring market. Big Law firms are crumbling, as the relentless pursuit of profits corrodes their core business model. Modern technology can now handle routine legal tasks like drafting incorporation papers and wills, reducing the need to hire lawyers; tort reform and other regulations on litigation have had the same effect. As in all areas of today's economy, there are some big winners; the rest struggle to find work, or decide to leave the field altogether, which leaves fewer options for consumers who cannot afford to pay for Big Law. It would be easy to look at these enormous challenges and see only a bleak future, but Ben Barton instead sees cause for optimism. Taking the long view, from the legal Wild West of the mid-nineteenth century to the post-lawyer bubble society of the future, he offers a close analysis of the legal market to predict how lawyerly creativity and entrepreneurialism can save the profession. In every seemingly negative development, there is an upside. The trend towards depressed wages and computerized legal work is good for middle class consumers who have not been able to afford a lawyer for years. The surfeit of law school students will correct itself as the law becomes a less attractive and lucrative profession. As Big Law shrinks, so will the pernicious influence of billable hours, which incentivize lawyers to spend as long as possible on every task, rather than seeking efficiency and economy. Lawyers will devote their time to work that is much more challenging and meaningful. None of this will happen without serious upheaval, but all of it will ultimately restore the health of the faltering profession. A unique contribution to our understanding of the legal crisis, the unconventional wisdom of Glass Half Full gives cause for hope in what appears to be a hopeless situation.

Managing Your Legal Career
Managing Your Legal Career

Author: Richard Lee Hermann

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781604429008

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To compete in today's tight job market, you need up-to-date, reliable information on how to manage this phase of your legal career. This thorough guide--divided into short, specific sections that touch on what you'll need to do before your new job hunt, while you're looking, as you're sitting in the interview, once you've gotten an offer, and everything in between--covers everything you need to know.

Rattlesnake Lawyer
Rattlesnake Lawyer

Author: Jonathan C. Miller

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780967392035

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"Watch for Rattlesnakes" reads the sign at the first rest stop within new Mexico's "Fighting 14th" judicial discrict. Young attorney Dan Shepard has been fired by his mother's prestigious Washington, DC law firm, and now must make his home aming the rattlesnakes. A failed stand-up comic forced into the law to pay the bills, Dan finds nothing amusing about his first case. His client, Jesus Villalobos, faces a murder charge, but nothing is what is seems, and the State is a little too eager to pin the charge on Jesus. Along the way, it is hard to tell who is the lawyer and who is the client. Rattlesnake Lawyer is a darkly comic tale of a young lawyer's coming of age in a small town where everyone knows what's going on--except him.