Starting Out: Resources for New Lawyers

This book is meant help you to remember, and to incorporate, critical ways to reduce stress and liability in your legal practice.
Among the topics discussed: setting, managing, and keeping client expectations; providing sufficient detail in your dockets (and the implications of not providing sufficient detail); not taking things personally; what to do when you've made a mistake; dealing with deadlines, and developing your own client base.

Also available in print at HF5616.G7 H65 2006.

Among other things, this book breaks down and makes clear basic accounting concepts. Holgate explains generally accepted accounting principles in the UK (GAAP), the trend towards global harmonisation and the role of international accounting standards. He then deals with specific areas such as group accounts, acquisitions, tax, leases, pensions, financial instruments, and realised profits, focusing in each case on those aspects that are likely to confront lawyers in their work. Please note UK focus.

Written by a psychologist and lawyer, this book offers insight into interpersonal skills awareness and development. It focuses on areas like career management and skill development tips, includes practical worksheets, development plans and questionnaires, and includes figures and tables that present information in a clear manner.

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. He tells you what you need to know about billing, managing your assistant, drafting internal memos, dealing with clients, and building your law practice.

This book offers a deep dive into understanding communication as behaviour, as well as practical tools and insights. It connects theory to practice in order to improve client communication, support the current transformation of legal work and prepare readers for future developments and disruptions in the legal profession.

This book uses clear, concise explanations and simple numerical examples of what lawyers and professional persons need to know to understand financial law and statements.

Law professors Douglas O. Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of able attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer. They organize the book around the qualities they see as crucial: courage, empathy, integrity, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism.

Using case examples and an analysis of the general litigation and negotiation behaviors of people with High Conflict Personalities, this book helps make sense of the fears that drive people to file lawsuits and complaints. It provides insight for containing their behavior while managing and/or resolving their disputes.

Through mindfulness and emotional intelligence training, lawyers can improve focus, get more work done in less time, improve their interpersonal skills, and seek and find work that will make their lives more meaningful. This book is designed to help law students and lawyers of all experience levels find a sustainable and meaningful life in the field of law.

Lawyers' Skills helps students develop the legal skills required for successful practice in the modern solicitor's firm. The book equips students with a solid understanding of the theory and concepts underpinning the key skills areas of legal writing and drafting, interviewing and advising, practical legal research, and advocacy. Guidance is also provided on a range of other professional skills which should be mastered before going into practice, including effective time management, negotiation, and email etiquette.The inclusion of realistic examples from practice, tasks, and reflective exercises emphasizes the interactive nature of skills as a subject and encourages students to develop, practise, and refine their legal skills. Chapter summaries, diagrams, and self-test questions are also featured throughout and provide additional learning support to students.

Provides practical skills and methods for improving efficiency, keeping budgets under control, building strong working relationships with clients, and maximizing profitability. Please note the text has a US focus.

This book provides a global perspective on the diverse legal service delivery ecosystem that will be our future. It provides chapter upon chapter (reason upon reason) explaining why lawyers can and should increase their appetite for disruption in the legal world.

Written by the leading authority on legal decision making, Professional Judgment for Lawyers integrates empirical legal research, cognitive and social psychology, organizational behavior, legal ethics, and neuroscience to illuminate and improve decision making by attorneys, clients, judges, arbitrators, mediators, and juries. Key Features: Analyzes the quality of decision making by lawyers, clients, judges, mediators, and arbitrators Shows how race, gender, age, roles, experience, personality, perception, memory, and emotions affect decision making by lawyers and judges Identifies deficiencies in professional decision making and proposes corrective steps

This book is intended to provide legal professionals with a sound understanding of the principles, methodologies, rates of return, and other elements that factor into the determination of fair market value for a business or an equity interest therein.

Also in print: HF5681.B2 K75 2013 LAW (Reserve).
It is important for lawyers who deal with commercial, corporate, family, estate, and even criminal practices to understand the rudimentary concepts of accounting and finance. This book uses clear, concise explanations of what lawyers need to know in order to understand financial statements.

This book is book has a US focus and provides tools to implement and evaluate alternative billing methods-including case studies of lawyers and firms successfully using alternative billing to deliver value.