Product Description: Based on the successful law school course, The Business of Being a Lawyer, this book is designed for use as a course book, as a supplement in ongoing related courses such as legal professions or law office practice, and as a resource for law school auxiliary programs such as Career Services, Student Support, and Financial Aid and Counseling...read more

Product Description: The law is a wonderful profession. It is also demanding and stressful and requires a multitude of talents—speaking, writing, researching, analyzing, advocating, and dealing with people. This engaging collection of articles, from author Kenneth Nolan, captures the insights and knowledge of an experienced litigator...read more

Product Description: Many people feel intimidated by lawyers because they don't deal with them on a regular basis. They need to know which questions to ask when looking for an attorney. They need to grasp what to expect and request throughout the attorney/client relationship...read more

Product Description: A lawyer must understand the basics which underpin the role of practicing as a corporate lawyer. This essential resource will illuminate those underpinnings—to identify, develop, and discuss strategies for acclimating to this unique area of law, including: • Defining Your Role• Starting Your Job• The Legal Department• Areas of Practice• Risk Management and much, much more!This concise and rigorous primer provides a framework for a long-lasting career and client relationship...read more

Product Description: Chart your course and build your ladder to ultimate success with this essential career resource! Law firms are promoting fewer associates to partnership and looking more closely at the performance of existing partners. This book will set you apart from the crowd and help you: • prove you can produce for the firm, • manage the business and manage people, • add value to the firm in other ways, and much more! Most firms provide surprisingly little guidance to associates about the skills they need to succeed as partners...read more

Product Description: Building a Pro Bono Practice Group provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on identifying and meeting the needs of non-paying clients. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts share their advice on establishing a dedicated pro bono group within an existing law firm...read more

Product Description: The Lawyer's Toolkit for Creating Both Personal and Professional Success provides an incredible amount of practical guidance and is an essential resource for the lawyer's library. The book can be used as a quick reference guide for individuals or as a teaching tool in lawyer development and mentoring programs...read more

Product Description: How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time...read more

Product Description: This collection of 70 essays covers a wide range of legal areas and cases large and small, complex and simple, criminal and civil. Music, painting, architecture, and ethics are also discussed. These stories transcend the specific cases in which they occurred; they combine to teach you effective ways of building meaningful relationships with your clients, staff, and the others around you, and in turn, finding meaning and happiness in your profession...read more

Product Description: This text is directed toward the learning outcomes students need and want in a basic professional responsibility course: mastering the doctrine regarding the regulation of law practice (including express instruction on reading rules and researching the law of professional responsibility); forming a vision of themselves as an attorney and a career plan that fits that vision; learning to identify the risks of discipline, liability, or business and reputational loss; and acquiring skills to practice law in a way that reduces those risks...read more

Product Description: Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today...read more

<p> <b>Introduction to Paralegal Studies: A Critical Thinking Approach</b> introduces paralegal students to the law and legal concepts while providing them with practical information about what paralegals actually do in the legal system. Now in its fourth edition, this text continues to deliver a comprehensive, intelligent overview of all the key concepts typically covered in introduction to paralegal studies or introduction to law courses. </p> <p> <b>Qualities that make this text an excellent teaching tool include:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>Critical thinking approach</b> used to introduce students to the study of law, encouraging them to interact with the materials through hypotheticals, examples, and well-designed questions. </li> <li> Teaches students the <b>basic skills necessary to understand statutes and court cases</b>. </li> <li> <b>Strong pedagogy</b> includes ethics alerts, marginal definitions, Internet references, and legal reasoning exercises throughout the book. </li> <li> <b>Well-organized, accessible format</b> </li> <li> <b>Excellent ancillary package</b>, with a comprehensive Instructor's Manual, in-depth test bank, and PowerPoint slides. Blackboard package also available. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> <b>The Fourth Edition is enriched by:</b> </p> <ul> <li> <b>New developments</b> are incorporated throughout this edition. </li> <li> <b>Updated ethics</b> materials. </li> <li> <b>New</b> and <b>updated</b> assignments </li> </ul> <p> For in-depth coverage of the legal system, the law and the analysis of it, and the role of the paralegal within the system, choose <b>Introduction to Paralegal Studies: A Critical Thinking Approach</b>. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>