Legal Profession category: 228 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This book analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively, a topic that is not covered coherently in any other book. At a time of rapid and wide-ranging change in the delivery of legal services, the current edition involves a complete reworking of the last edition to take...
Modern Legal Drafting
A Guide to Using Clearer Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Modern Legal Drafting provides a comprehensive, authoritative guide to drafting legal documents in effective, plain English. Peter Butt, a leading expert in the field, has fully revised and updated the text for this new edition. It combines a practical focus with the legal principles that underpin...
From Truth to Technique at Trial
A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy....
by Bloomsbury Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This collection explores developments in the regulation of legal services by examining the control of the markets in several key countries and in jurisdictions within countries. The contributions consider emerging adjustments in regulatory structures and methods; examine the continuing role, if any,...
by Robert Dingwall
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis’s renowned compilation of diverse studies—written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions—was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals...
The Independent Bar
Insights into a Unique Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The business of running a barristers’ chambers has changed immensely over recent years. The traditional image of chambers has been, in many respects, confined to the past and they are now, in large part, run as modern, highly efficient, businesses often with an international reach. The role of the...
Client Science
Advice for Lawyers on Counseling Clients through Bad News and Other Legal Realities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or her allegiance and zeal. Client backlash may...
Bewigged and Bewildered?
A Guide to Becoming a Barrister in England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
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...
Attorney-Client Privilege in the Americas
Professional Secrecy of Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
One of the major challenges facing the legal profession today is how to adapt and apply the concept of attorney-client privilege (or professional secrecy) in an increasingly globalised world. Rules on attorney-client privilege differ significantly from country to country. This book explores such differences...
The Art of Practicing Law
Talking to Clients and Colleagues
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This collection of 70 essays covers a wide range of legal areas and cases large and small, complex and simple, criminal and civil. Music, painting, architecture, and ethics are also discussed. These stories transcend the specific cases in which they occurred; they combine to teach you effective ways...
by J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
Georgia Legal Malpractice Law addresses both the fabric of Georgia legal malpractice law and the cases and issues confronting attorneys, including effective claim prevention and loss avoidance. Since the first edition of this book was released, the Georgia Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals of...
by E. Allan Farnsworth
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
In the updated, fourth edition of this classic text which has been translated into over a dozen languages, constitutional scholar and Columbia Law School professor E. Allan Farnsworth provides a clear explanation of the structure and function of the U.S. legal system in one handy reference. An Introduction...
General Counsel in the 21st Century
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The function of the general counsel - and in wider terms, the legal in-house department - has undergone a remarkable change in recent years. Law as such is now understood as a valuable resource, not just as a limit on commercial activities, by businesses around the world. As a result, the way that...
Law, Life, and Lore
It's Too Late to Stop Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Law is best interpreted in the context of the traditions and cultures that have shaped its development, implementation, and acceptance. However, these can never be assessed truly objectively: individual interpreters of legal theory need to reflect on how their own experiences create the framework...