Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Solo by Choice The Companion GuideAuthor: Elefant, CarolynPublisher: Lawyer Avenue PrPublication Date: 2011/10/01Number of Pages: 134Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 2011024923

Product Description: Americans have always placed great faith in the rule of law. Today it may be too much. As the volume and complexity of legislation grows, as more behavior is criminalized and jails overfill, as the cost of litigation mounts and jury verdicts skyrocket, legal gridlock becomes a real prospect...read more

Product Description: Most attorneys know the education received in law school is only a small portion of the knowledge that is needed, and needed as quickly as possible. This book is a compilation of articles from the ABA Section of Litigation, chosen by young practicing lawyers, that seeks to guide young litigators in their first days, months, and years in the practice of law...read more

Product Description: This is a friendly and helpful companion for clinical students and new lawyers as they venture forth. Among its topics are solving problems, telling stories, coping with lies and mistakes, interviewing and counseling clients, investigating and negotiating cases, writing legal memos, making oral arguments and trying lawsuits...read more

Product Description: The recent popularity of suits against lawyers has highlighted a number of issues that distinguish the claim from the run-of-the-mill negligence to cause of action. Lawyers who prosecute or defend legal malpractice claims must understand their state's legal malpractice laws and, when a claim involves multiple jurisdictions, must also consider the potentially applicable laws of other involved jurisdictions...read more

Product Description: Effective leadership is a critical skill necessary to succeed in the legal profession. Discover how to become a more effective leader and embody your particular personality into your leadership style. This resource delivers information on how to: Remain on the lookout for the tremors of egos and how your psychological matrix manifests Create a mentorship style and incorporate it into your practice Use techniques to help staff overcome anxiety to increase performance Apply critical negotiation techniques and tactics Embrace the knowledge that change is the only constant of a successful organization Build effective communication skills for a constantly evolving organizational dynamic ...read more

Product Description: Enhance your listening and negotiation skills by applying insights from this new guide. You will uncover helpful: Techniques to manage the changing mosaic of human emotions and relevant facts in order to successfully negotiate a client's best interests Tips to develop skills as a negotiator who is able to deal effectively with all the elements of life, depending on the nature of the client's business ...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>

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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