An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - an experienced author team draws upon many years of teaching and writing about lawyering skills - complete coverage of the essential skills -- problem solving, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis -- ensures a comprehensive approach - ...
A law degree is not necessarily a ticket to success, wealth and happiness. Perhaps it's dissatisfaction with the hours, the firm, or the work itself, but every year, more nad more lawyers want out. Now there's a real-world primer that can help virtually anyone in this position. Whether you're merely considering a change of firmly committed to one, ...
The author team for WRIGHTSMAN'S PSYCHOLOGY AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM, Sixth Edition combines complementary expertise, active research, writing careers, and real world experience (as consultants working within the legal system) to produce a comprehensive text that is unparalleled in scholarship and writing style. The authorship, research base and ...
Before the Law promotes an interdisciplinary approach for introducing students to the purpose and practice of law in our society. Excerpts from recent and classic court cases, as well as material on trends in legal studies come from a range of legal sources, including court opinions; sociological, psychological, and anthropological analyses; ...
A bullet in the head is the customary penalty for violators of the Mafia's code of silence. Nevertheless, Frank Ragano, a mob lawyer who has defended Santo Trafficante, Carlos Marcello and others, has come forward to tell his unprecedented inside story of the Mafia and the killings of Hoffa and JFK. Two 8-page inserts.
Examines the legal system through the use of psychological concepts, methods, and research results. The text seeks to clarify the basic dilemmas that persist in the legal system and looks at the ethical, moral, legal, and psychological "gray areas" of the law including coverage of such topics as: competence to stand trial; pretrial publicity and ...
This book will teach the reader hundreds of simple-to-use strategies that will help them nail that perfect job. It features the best inside tips from the country's most innovative career counselors. Its strategies are so powerful that it comes with a guarantee: Follow the advice in this book, and within one year from the date of purchase you'll ...
Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Too often, deals blow up, cases don't settle, relationships fall apart, justice is delayed. Beyond Winning charts a way out of our current crisis of confidence ...
Helps lawyers find a way to happiness in their career and life. This book enables them to analyze their personal values and create their own personal fulfillment plan.
A concrete, workable program for changing the way law is practiced in America, from two experts in the field. Essential reading for anyone who cares about justice.
Drawing on his career as an attorney, Auchincloss elegantly brings to life a stratum of society that few have seen. Touching, comical, and erudite, "Last of the Old Guard" is both a revealing history of a high-profile law firm and an intimate portrait of a poignant friendship between two men.
A handbook on starting and building a law practice. It contains 128 chapters offering techniques for getting started, finding clients and the right location, setting fees, managing the office, maintaining an ethical and responsible practice, maximizing available resources, and more.
In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working. ...
This introductory text geared toward pre-law or first-year law students focuses on legal analysis, why courts follow precedent, how cases are applied and distinguished, and how ambiguous language is interpreted.
Law and the legal industry consist of much more than just lawyers and judges. In fact, it encompasses a wide range of fields such as legal services, court systems, law enforcement, corrections, criminal justice, social services, mediation, legal education, research, and more. "Career Opportunities in Law and the Legal Industry, Second Edition" ...
In recent years, millions of TV viewers have devoured images of the law. Amy Fisher, O.J. Simpson, Rodney King and JonBenet Ramsey have become household names. To meet popular demand we have a cable channel devoted to trials and police dramas 24 hours a day. Quick justice-dealing judges preside over TV courtrooms resolving real-life conflicts. ...
Written by Katherine Currier and Tom Eimermann, authors of the critically acclaimed Introduction to Law for Paralegals, "Introduction to Paralegal Studies: " A Critical Thinking Approach offers a comprehensive and intelligent overview designed for introductory paralegal courses focused on basic legal concepts and paralegal skills. Students and ...
Refined through years of classroom use, this casebook: - offers comprehensive coverage of the full range of professional liability issues - presents a well-balanced assortment of cases, law review articles, timely materials, engaging problems, and challenging notes - recognizes that the law is not necessarily self-evident and goes beyond the ...
The entertaining, subversive, and biting style of the Rodent has earned him a national audience. He now treats readers to his first book-length expose which lifts the rock off the judicial community to reveal tips for survival at the Firm, how lawyers gnaw their way to the top, how to master the art of overbilling, and more! An outrageous, ...
In Practicing Law in Frontier California Gordon Morris Bakken combines collective biography with an analysis of the function of the bar in a rapidly changing socioeconomic setting. Drawing on manuscript collections, Bakken considers hundreds of men and women who came to California to practice law during the gold rush and later, their reasons for ...
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