Career Choice & Change: Job Hunting, Internship Seeking & Discovering Your Career Path: Law and Legal Studies

In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s. The third edition offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law. It identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work.

Law school is only the first step towards a fulfilling career, as it only teaches law students how to think like lawyers. Without a roadmap for how to maintain a satisfying and successful career, many recent law graduates find themselves feeling stuck, unsatisfied, and unable to better their career. Author Dena Lefkowitz bridged that gap for herself, has taught these missing lessons to hundreds of lawyers as a professional coach, and laid out her processes and techniques in this book.

This book is geared to non-lawyers who are preparing to embark on a career in the legal field, whether as a paralegal, legal assistant, or law clerk. The handbook will introduce students to the legal landscape in their province or territory, guiding them through the various roles available and types of organizations to work for as a legal professional, while helping them to recognize how their past education and experiences fit those roles. It covers job search process (including cover letters and resumes), how to navigate the legal office environment, time management and other career planning strategies.

The Lawyer's Conscience is the first book examining the history of American lawyer ethics, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to the "professionalism" crisis facing lawyers today.

The Legal Aid Society's mission is to advance, defend, and enforce the legal rights of low-income and otherwise vulnerable people in order to secure for them the basic necessities of life. Everyday Justice is an on-the-ground history of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, the story of how national debates about access to justice have impacted the work of its lawyers, and a warning about why the federally imposed limits on that work must be lifted in order to fulfill the pledge of justice for all.

Provides a variety of up-to-date lists, including Top 100, Best Firms to Work for, Best Firms for Diversity, Best Firms by Practice Area, Best Firms by Region, Best Summer Associate Programs, and more. The lists include company profiles and exclusive insider information from verified employees.

This volume covers over 30 sub-disciplines of law. In addition, check out the rest of the Vault Guides for Law, such as whole volumes that specifically focus on environmental law, healthcare law, media & sports law, real estate, tax law, data security, international practice and more.

Vault has a dedicated section of blog articles for 360 degree coverage of career exploration, employment and how to thrive in this broad and complex profession.Wide-ranging content includes legal writing, bar exam, alternative law professions, advice for addressing your diversity and inclusion expectations in this field.

This is your guide to law firm interviewing and the nation’s top law firm summer associate programs. In this book you’ll find expert advice on-campus interviewing, call backs, and how to be successful as a summer associate from authors with years or decades of experience working in large firm legal recruiting.

This book introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies. Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural expertise: its intellectual orientations, practical applications and ethical implications. This book covers topics ranging from race, language, sexuality, Indigenous rights and women’s rights to immigration and asylum laws, international commercial arbitration and criminal law. It also offers a truly global perspective covering cultural expertise in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.

Members of historically underrepresented groups remain seriously disadvantaged in professional training and work environments that white, upper-class men continue to dominate.Diversity in Practice analyzes the disconnect between expressed commitments to diversity and practical achievements, revealing the often obscure systemic causes that drive persistent professional inequalities.

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? This book investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law with 42 profiles representing women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world.