Legal Profession category: 228 books
Catalonia's Advocates
Lawyers, Society, and Politics in Barcelona, 1759-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
By any measure, the law as a profession is in serious trouble. Americans' trust in lawyers is at a low, and many members of the profession wish they had chosen a different path. Law schools, with their endlessly rising tuitions, are churning out too many graduates for the jobs available. Yet despite...
Lives of Lawyers Revisited
Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly’s work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By...
Teaching Law
Justice, Politics, and the Demands of Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that...
by Christopher Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
At the end of the eighteenth century, when ten lawyers gathered in what is now Niagara-on-the-Lake to form the Law Society of Upper Canada, they were creating something new in the world: a professional organization with statutory authority to control its membership and govern its own affairs. Today's...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
No occupation in America supplies a greater proportion of leaders than the legal profession, yet it has done little to prepare them for this role. Lawyers sit at the helm of a vast array of powerful law firms, businesses, governmental, and nonprofit organizations. Two of the last three presidents...
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To Establish Justice for All: The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States [3 volumes]
The Past and Future of Civil Legal Aid in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
American statesman Sargent Shriver called the Legal Services Program the "most important" of all the War on Poverty programs he started; American Bar Association president Edward Kuhn said its creation was the most important development in the history of the legal profession. Earl Johnson...
The New Lawyer, Second Edition
How Clients Are Transforming the Practice of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
The New Lawyer, Second Edition, analyzes the fundamental changes transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and the basic principles of legal practice. The first edition, published in 2008, quickly became an essential resource for lawyers and legal educators and further established...
Building an Outstanding Legal Team
Battle-Tested Strategies from a General Counsel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In this practical “how to” guide, Bjarne P Tellmann, General Counsel and SVP of Pearson, draws upon more than 20 years of leading top legal organisations across Europe, Asia and the United States to provide a structured plan for upgrading your legal team in an age of disruption. The challenge:...
Knowledge Management in Law Firms
Expertise in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Knowledge has always been at the heart of the legal profession. This is because an essential component of practising law involves applying knowledge and expertise to solve clients' legal problems. In the rapidly changing contemporary legal world, where cases, transactions and legal issues become increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The contributions in this volume suggest that "the ethics project in legal education" is increasingly an international one. Even though the strength of commitment by both the profession and the legal academy to "ethics learning" within law schools varies, two fundamental questions...
Fighting Fair
Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Along with used car dealers and telemarketers, lawyers are considered to be among the least trustworthy of all professionals. If lawyers want more respect, they will have to earn it by reframing their ethical responsibilities. In an original approach to law's moral dilemma, legal theorist Allan C....
Called by Stories
Biblical Sagas and Their Challenge for Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Distinguished legal scholar and Presbyterian minister Milner S. Ball examines great sagas and tales from the Bible for the light they shed on the practice of law and on the meaning of a life lived in the legal profession. Scholars and laypersons alike typically think of the law as a discipline dominated...
American Law
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book provides an introduction to the American legal system for a broad readership. Its focus is on law in practice, on the role of the law in American society; and how the social context affects the living law of the United States. It covers the institutions of law creation and application, law...