UID:
almahu_9949767335002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (149 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781627227544
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Climbing Mount Ampersand -- Chapter 1: In Law School and Before -- Someone to Watch Over Me -- First Semester -- Letter to a First-Year Law Student -- School Rankings -- Types of Law Schools -- The Two-Year Push -- The Well-Read Law Student -- How to Talk Like a Lawyer -- Demonic Devices -- Law School Bingo -- Theory and Practice -- Chapter 2: In Search of a Job -- Resume the Résumé -- What's in a Name? -- Don't Think, Do -- Hard Deadlines and Job Criteria -- "Small World" Stories -- Dressing for Success -- The Job Interview -- Beyond Email -- The Luncheon Meeting from Hades -- The Rejection Notice -- What and Who You Know -- While Waiting for the Bar Results -- Now That You're Admitted to Practice -- To Solo or Not -- Chapter 3: In Practice -- Be on Time -- Advice to the New Attorney -- It Can Be a Hardscrabble Life -- Handling Criticism -- Procrastination -- Purge Day -- Yes, Lawyers Do Laugh -- No Water Bottles, Please -- Two Cheers for Continuing Legal Education -- Becoming the Go-To Person -- Gossamer Wings -- Be Positive -- Turn Off Your Goddamned Cell Phone -- Small Law Office Hiring -- Minders Finders Binders Grinders -- Practicing Law on the Cheap -- The CYA Letter -- Reinventing the Wheel -- Along with the Internet, Interact -- Dealing with Jerks -- Grace Under Pressure -- Chapter 4: Areas of Practice -- Appellate Practice -- Family Law -- Assigned Counsel -- Being a Defense Attorney -- The Soloist -- Thoughts of a Public Offender -- Chapter 5: In Court -- Being a Trial Lawyer -- "The Big Bang Theory" of Courtroom Oratory -- Respect the Judge -- After the Trial -- Better Angels on the High Road -- What's a Meta For? -- Chapter 6: Writing and Speaking -- It All Started with William the Conqueror -- I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar.
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Public Speaking -- One Size Fits All? -- Proofreading and Editing -- The Fontz -- Legal Writing and the Ugly Tie Contest -- A Good Writer -- The Lawyer as Writer -- More About Writing -- The One-Pager -- Chapter 7: Relationships -- Initiations -- Sandbox -- Snake Pit -- Tact -- Bridges, Not Barriers -- The Stories We Tell -- Smirch or Be Smirched? -- Networking -- Sharp-Elbowed Practitioners -- Living by the Sword -- When to Fire a Client -- Responding to Grievances -- Shot Across the Bow -- Client Control -- The GFY Retainer -- Chapter 8: Improving as a Lawyer -- Keeping Up on the Law -- The Burns Book -- Save Saturday for Education -- Perseverance and Inspiration -- Make a List, Check It Twice -- Learn from the Master, Learn from the Apprentice -- Mind Your Manners -- Changing Jobs -- Flateau -- Chapter 9: In Life -- Fit to Be Tried -- Outside Interests -- More Things to Read -- Something About My Father -- Pass It On -- References -- Copyright.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Muldoon, Gary The Education of a Lawyer La Vergne : American Bar Association,c2023 ISBN 9781627227537
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
