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.

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 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.

This text begins by addressing why leadership development and training are essential in preparing lawyers for the roles and responsibilities they will have in their careers, and describes The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, providing qualitative and quantitative evidence of how these leadership practices improve personal and organizational productivity and stature. The second part address the context in which lawyers exercise leadership.

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.

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.