Legal Profession category: 228 books
Legal Services Regulation at the Crossroads
Justitia’s Legions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Who should be allowed to provide legal services to others? What characteristics must these services possess? Through a comparative study of English-speaking jurisdictions, this book illuminates the policy choices involved in legal services regulation and the important consequences of these choices.Regulation...
by Jeffrey Lipshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The concept of learning to ‘think like a lawyer’ is one of the cornerstones of legal education in the United States and beyond. In this book, Jeffrey Lipshaw provides a critique of the traditional views of ‘thinking like a lawyer’ or ‘pure lawyering’ aimed at lawyers, law professors, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
It has long been recognized that court trials, both criminal and civil, in the common law system, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal...
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analytics
New Tools for Law Practice in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the law is on the cusp of a revolution that began with text analytic programs like IBM's Watson and Debater and the open-source information management architectures on which they are based. Today, new legal applications are beginning to appear and this...
by Caroline Maughan, Julian Webb
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process bridges the gap between academic and practical law for students undertaking skills-based and clinical legal education courses at university. It develops oral and written communication, group working, problem solving and conflict resolution skills in a range of...
Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations
A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Higgins provides a practical set of principles to advise practitioners in the large number of areas where there is uncertainty...
Legal Integration and Language Diversity
Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
How can the European Union create laws that are uniform in a multitude of languages? Specifically, how can it attain both legal integration and language diversity simultaneously, without the latter compromising the former? C.J.W. Baaijargues that the answer lies in the domain of translation. A uniform...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
"Equal Justice Under Law" is one of America's most proudly proclaimed and widely violated legal principles. But it comes nowhere close to describing the legal system in practice. Millions of Americans lack any access to justice, let alone equal access. Worse, the increasing centrality of law in American...
Advice for the Lawlorn
Career Do's and Don'ts From One of the Most Successful Legal Recruiters in the Industry
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Ann M. Israel is among the most highly respected and sought after legal search professionals in the largest and most competitive legal market in the United States—the New York City metropolitan area. She enjoys long-standing relationships among top-tier and mid-tier law firms in Manhattan, Long...
Great Legal Marketing: How Smart Lawyers Think, Behave and Market to Get More Clients, Make More Money, and Still Get Home in Time for Dinner
How Smart Lawyers Think, Behave and Market to Get More Clients, Make More Money, and Still Get Home in Time for Dinner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Other lawyers are living extraordinary lives and their success can be discovered and modeled! Who wants to spend 60 to 70 hours per week in the office? What lawyer would love nothing more than to be accessible to his or her clients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? "Great Legal Marketing" will...
Reaching the Bar
Stories of Women at All Stages of Their Law Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2009
Women account for 30% of the 1.14 million attorneys currently practicing in the U.S., and in 2007, 48% of all juris doctor degrees were awarded to women. Despite the growing appearance of women at the bar, the law is still a profession dominated by older white men. While some of the challenges an...
The Paradox of Professionalism
Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can...
The Global Evolution of Clinical Legal Education
More than a Method
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Globally, the methodologies of legal education have not changed in any fundamental way, some methods dating back hundreds of years. Law schools have relied, for too long, on passive learning methods such as lectures or cases. Clinical legal education provides an alternative that is more than just...
Ethics in Practice
Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Lawyers' ethics have been condemned for centuries, but they received little scholarly scrutiny until the last few decades. Ethics in Practice brings together leading experts in the emerging field of legal ethics to discuss the central dilemmas of practicing law. This collection cuts across conventional...