Career Development Success

Ann M. Israel is the indisputable "Dear Abby" of the legal profession. Advice for the Lawlorn covers a myriad of topics faced by lawyers young and old, including: Why should I become/stay a lawyer? Do law school grades really matter? How soon is too soon to start looking for a new job? And more.

The "Curmudgeon" has been practicing law for just a little too long, and he may be too jaded for his own good. Beneath his crusty exterior, however, lies a fount of wisdom. This is everything you ever wanted to know about law practice but were afraid to ask. The Curmudgeon offers practical and honest, if blunt, advice for surviving and thriving in a law firm.

This book introduces young lawyers to the art of trial advocacy. The author provides a historical context and shares engaging stories of exemplary trial lawyers throughout history. He then walks the reader through the role and qualities of the trial lawyer and presents an in-depth primer on rhetoric and persuasion. Each stage of the trial is considered in depth with examples from real cases.

From interviewing for a position as an associate to achieving partnership, the Law Firm Job Survival Manual will help you run the gauntlet of your legal career faster and smarter. Written with humor and sensitivity, this concise handbook demystifies the etiquette and ethics of the law firm environment while equipping you with essential survival skills.

Making partner and achieving a sense of success and fulfillment in a law firm is challenging for most young lawyers. Based on original research, this book examines the factors, competencies, and attitudes that allow lawyers to flourish and make partner.

Neither an expose nor a whitewash, Powell's book employs telling anecdotes and savvy advice in crafting an informed and intensely practical guide to survival as an associate in Biglaw.

Building a Better Law Practice will help you be a better lawyer and build a better practice by teaching you how to effectively manage and communicate with clients, handle your cases more efficiently, and become confident in your practice by providing practical and readily implementable systems and suggestions.

With countless articles and blogs on legal innovation, it is nearly impossible for attorneys to keep pace. The good news: lawyers can continue to learn well into their years of practice! With some updated vocabulary and a few real examples lawyers can learn to wow their clients.

This book is for lawyers who want to know what their role is in a law firm from day one and take their careers head-on, with direction and purpose. Thrive will improve your performance, save you some very real growing pains, and accelerate your legal career.

With an easily readable style, Swimming Lessons for Baby Sharks helps new lawyers finesse unwritten rules and stay afloat in a challenging profession. The book contains hundreds of tips with inside information from successful lawyers nationwide.

This short guide offers insights into interviewing, counselling, legal writing, trial preparation, trial skills and other stuff with some "Advice for All Seasons" - all designed to help young lawyers approach the many challenges and rewards of being a lawyer.

Becoming a Lawyer: Discovering and Defining Your Professional Persona addresses a range of attitudes and behaviors required to succeed--and flourish--in the legal profession. The book covers foundations of a robust and sustainable professional persona (achieving competence, habits, intelligence, and leadership); self-management--professionalism from the inside (mindset and dispositions, time management and organization, and wellbeing); and relationships - professionalism with the outside (working with others, talent management, and effective communication).

Becoming a lawyer is about much more than acquiring knowledge and technique. As law students learn the law and acquire some basic skills, they are also inevitably forming a deep sense of themselves in their new roles as lawyers. That sense of self the student's nascent professional identity needs to take a particular form if the students are to fulfil the public purposes of lawyers and find deep meaning and satisfaction in their work.

If you are still struggling to find a way to provide for your family without losing yourself, this book is for you. Part Ask and It Is Given and part What Color Is Your Parachute? (but written for lawyers), Happy Lawyer gives you the tools you need to get unstuck in your career and start living your dream.

Roadmap sharpens your awareness of the characteristics most valued in the workplace — whether it is in a law firm, a company, or a government entity. The map encourages you to use your time in law school to develop the competencies important to your future and helps the reader form a conscious plan to demonstrate these self-development experiences.

Winning in Your Own Court contains stories about lawyers who struggled with business development, were encountering career dilemmas, and loved what they did but didn't know how to get to the next level. Using the techniques presented in this book, you will learn how to assess where you are, determine what needs to change to get where you want to be, and create a plan to do so.