This succinct paperback will fill a major information void for students and recent graduates who are interested in a legal career outside the typical large, corporate law firm. Beyond the...
This text provides a study of the impact of Renaissance and Reformation scholarship on Welsh society and its leading members. It aims to show how broadly disseminated this scholarship was...
"I Never Thought I Would Lose a Case," says Guy T. Saperstein, recalling his life fighting for the underdog and for social change in his autobiography Civil Warrior: Memoirs of...
This two-volume set examines United States and United Nations nation-building missions since World War II. Its purpose is to analyze military, political, humanitarian, and economic activities in post-conflict situations, determine key ...
Text, Cases and Materials on Transnational Commercial Law brings together all the major transnational commercial law instruments relating to commercial contracts in a logical and accessible way. The authors provide...
This looseleaf work examines strategies for change in marketing, growth, governance, compensation, mergers, acquisitions, and other areas of law office management. The practical steps required for long range planning for...
Teaching and Learning Professionalism: Symposium Proceedings, October 2-4, 1996, Oak Brook, Illinois
Based on the strong correlation between job satisfaction and lawyer retention, this book explains how firms can continually engage and motivate lawyers. Discussions include why associate retention is an economic...
The third edition of this book contains insights into positions in publishing, real-estate management consulting, employee relations, media organizations and associations. The book aims to provide a useful tool for...
This book contains summaries of career options for attorneys in associations, national service organizations, consulting firms, publishing, real estate, and government. The pros and cons of a nonlegal career for...
Sources of Judicial Power; Craftmanship; Common Law Adjudication; The Goals; Precedent; Judicial Lawmaking; Changing the Common Law; Statutory Interpretation; Understanding the Task; Understanding the Statute; More on Understanding; Subsequent Developments;...
Mightier Than the Sword: Powerful Writing in the Legal Profession
Comprehensive coverage of wills, estates, and trusts that incorporates principles and techniques specific to the legal assistant or paralegal student. Coverage includes discussion of important features that can make the...
Lawyers and the Legal Profession: Cases and Materials
Careers in Entertainment Law
Since solo practitioners of the law serve as their own firm administrators, it is essential for them to have the latest practice management strategies on hand. Solo lawyers are supplied...
A personal description of the workings of the American criminal justice system based on the author's two-and-a-half year stint working with the Public Defender's Service in Washington, D.C
Practical Law Office Management, 2nd Edition, explores how law office management applies to practicing legal assistants. It identifies the subject matter that today's paralegals need to master in order to...
The Pocket Guide to Legal Writing is designed as a desk book for use by practicing paralegals, legal assistants, attorneys, and students. It is a reference book that allows the...
Are America's professionals living up to their own ethical standards? This timely resource gives you 51 codes of ethics -- most in full text -- revealing how 45 key associations...