Legal Profession category: 228 books
Without Precedent
The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession. When she retired in 1979, she left a legacy burnished by her tireless...
Women Lawyers
Rewriting the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact...
Recruiting and Retaining Lawyers
Innovative Strategies to Attract, Develop and Retain Legal Talent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The competition for talent that leading experts started to describe in the 1990s has now become a reality in the legal profession. Like most industries across the globe, the legal industry is facing a shortage of exceptional people. Although in some jurisdictions there are more lawyers than the market...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
International law is not merely a set of rules or processes, but is a professional activity practised by a diversity of figures, including scholars, judges, counsel, teachers, legal advisers and activists. Individuals may, in different contexts, play more than one of these roles, and the interactions...
The Generalist Counsel
How Leading General Counsel are Shaping Tomorrow's Companies
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
In the past two decades, the General Counsel in many companies has risen in importance, and the GC is now often involved in business strategy from the inception. Consequently, the position has become more desirable, lucrative, and competitive. Those who achieve it are required to be better versed...
Bewigged and Bewildered?
A Guide to Becoming a Barrister in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Misunderstandings and jargon prevent many from seriously considering a career as a barrister in the belief that such a career is not for them or that they are not for it. Others know that they might want to become barristers but not how to go about it, or just want to know more about this somewhat...
How Lawyers Lose Their Way
A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
In this penetrating book, Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado use historical investigation and critical analysis to diagnose the cause of the pervasive unhappiness among practicing lawyers. Most previous writers have blamed the high rate of burnout, depression, divorce, and drug and alcohol dependency...
by Cynthia F. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Universally considered to be pathbreaking, landmark, original, and provocative since its first edition was published three decades ago, WOMEN IN LAW continues to provide a sociological and historical analysis of the overt and subtle ceilings placed on women in the legal profession in their various...
Rethinking Chinese Jurisprudence and Exploring Its Future
A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This book is an antecedent study on the task facing China's legal science, more strictly speaking — China's legal philosophy, in post-Cold War world structure. In broader terms, this is an academic study of China's own “identity” and future in the world structure. The author believes that from...
by Thomas Leaming
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
A fascinating insight into the London legal profession and courts of the early 20th century, written by an American attorney, Thomas Leaming. Leaming covers such diverse topics as wigs and gowns, training of lawyers, barristers, solicitors, the common law, the Cnancery Court, fees and the Police Courts.
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence
A Guide to Balancing Your Law Practice and Your Life Practice through the Art of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Jiu Jitsu Jurisprudence introduces something new into your life that will revolutionize every aspect of your being: your body, your mind, and your soul. It will help you find purpose outside of the office and beyond the courtroom. You will feel better, think clearer, be happier, and above all, find...
The Practice
Brutal Truths About Lawyers and Lawyering
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
In The Practice, Tannebaum riffs on everything from asking yourself what type of lawyer you want to be, to the most effective way to market yourself in an industry where lawyers increasingly over-rely on social media to prove their relevance. It also discusses other important topics, including the...
Learning to Lead
What Really Works for Women in Law
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
This book (a) synthesizes and distills the research, anecdotal evidence, and key concepts on leadership techniques and success that help working women, in any field, develop in their careers; (b) tailors these principles for women practicing law, regardless of practice area, and creates practical...
Reinventing Legal Education
How Clinical Education Is Reforming the Teaching and Practice of Law in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
European legal teaching - historically formalistic, doctrinal, hierarchical, and passive - is coming under increasing pressure to reimagine itself as pragmatic, policy-aware, and action-oriented. Out of this context, a bottom-up movement of university law clinics appears to be emerging in Europe....