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Best Friends at the Bar: The New Balance for Today s Woman Lawyer candidly addresses the problems unique to women in the practice of law and provides practical, helpful advice and solutions. This companion to Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to Know about a Career in the Law is based on research, the author s experience, and interviews with women attorneys who have successfully made the transition from one practice setting to another. These women, many with national reputations, tell their stories in their own compelling words.

You seem to have it all. A beautiful family, a nice house, new cars, and an enviable job. But now that you have it all, something feels… off. Your law career has become horribly soul-sucking. You’re managing your life, sort of, but you feel duped. Trapped. Your “good job” is affecting your health and relationships, and you’re just trying to keep all the plates spinning. Beverly Davidek has been there.
Here’s the good news: You can find a job that helps you provide for your family while giving you happiness, satisfaction, and peace of mind.

A team of veteran lawyers and entrepreneurs delivers an eye-opening discussion of how to translate your years of training and education into a running start in the world of practice. The book bridges the gap between law school and practice, whether you hope to be a big firm transactional attorney, a solo criminal lawyer, work for the government or any other legal profession. You’ll discover how you can use what you learned in law school and how you can develop the real skills you’ll need as you deal with clients and colleagues. The authors explain what your professors won’t tell you in law school and what employers and clients will actually expect from you.
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A collection of essays by women lawyers telling stories of struggle and success practicing law while juggling the demands of family life. The women have had careers as varied as law professor, prosecutor, Wall Street corporate attorney, in-house counsel and broadcast legal commentator.

Legally Mom profiles the lives of more than twenty women practicing law at different stages of their career and with varied ages of children. This collection brings together a selection of deeply felt, personal narratives by smart, interesting women who explore the continued inequality of the sexes in law practice and suggest changes that could make firms more family friendly workplaces.

Microsoft’s associate general counsel shares a story about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology and music industries in this true story of grit and perseverance.
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In this new, 6th edition of a law career classic, lawyers are introduced to a unique, five-part model for career satisfaction. It is based on a well-established principle that the better the fit between your career identity and your job, the greater your long-term satisfaction. The five-part model developed by Larry Richard JD/Ph.D. will help identify your career identity so that you can find lifelong satisfaction in the traditional practice of law, or through alternative work arrangements, or career choices. This book contains career exercises, practical career-finding techniques, and a compendium of 800+ ways to use your law degree inside, outside or around the law.

Professor Neil Hamilton, former dean of St. Thomas University School of Law, has developed a ground-breaking template for law students to use throughout all three years of law school in order to be fully prepared to find employment upon graduation. This book is directed to law students who want to take control of their law school education, and ensure a positive outcome upon graduation.

The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession. Legal historian Jill Norgren curated the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. As adults, these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.

The third edition addresses the questions asked across the legal ecosystem about probable futures for the sector covering law firms, in-house lawyers, alternative legal suppliers, judges and courts, legal education and educators, legal technologists, startups, and access to justice. It predicts more change in law in the coming two decades than we have seen in the past two centuries. New topics are the very fast-moving world of technology, the impact of COVID-19, innovation in law, lawtech startups, and a model of understanding legal technology.
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