Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Law School Guide to Public Interest Careers
Author: Public Interest Job Search Guide
Author: Stacy M. DeBroffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Law Jobs
Author: Andrew J. McClurgPublisher: West Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9781640202054
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Choosing a legal career that fits a student's personality, skillset, and aspirations is the most important and difficult decision a law student faces, yet only a small number of law schools incorporate career-planning into their curriculums. Law Jobs: The Complete Guide seeks to fill the gap. Written by three award-winning professors, Law Jobs is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide to every type of legal career. Packed with authoritative research and featuring comments from more than 150 lawyers who do the jobs, Law Jobs offers in-depth exploration of each career option, including general background, pros and cons, day in the life descriptions, job availability, compensation, prospects for advancement, diversity, and how students can best position themselves for opportunities in the field. Covered jobs include: Large and Medium-Sized Law Firms Small Firms and Solo Practitioners In-House and Other Corporate Counsel Government Agency Lawyers Non-Governmental Public Interest Law Prosecutors and Public Defenders Private Criminal Defense JD Advantage Jobs Contract (Freelance) Lawyering Judges, Mediators, and Arbitrators Judicial Law Clerks Legal Academic Jobs Other chapters address lawyer happiness, the rapidly changing face of the legal profession due to technology and other forces, the division between litigation and transactional law, and the top-50 legal specialty areas. Together, the authors have received more than thirty awards for teaching and research, and have written extensively about law students and lawyers in books such as 1L of a Ride (McClurg), A Lawyer Writes (Coughlin), and The Happy Lawyer (Levit).
Public Interest Directory
Author: Public Interest Lawyering
Author: Alan K. ChenPublisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 1454818883
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
Public Interest Lawyering is the first comprehensive analysis of public interest lawyering that is suitable as a law school elective text and/or advanced legal profession courses and seminars. Drawing upon a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this timely textbook examines the lives of public interest lawyers, the clients and causes they serve, the contexts within which they work, the strategies they deploy, and the challenges they face today. Features: The first comprehensive overview of the broad range of contemporary issues faced by public interest lawyers in any American law school text. Thorough discussion of important theoretical issues about the scope and definition of public interest lawyering. Addresses American public interest law from a historical perspective with focus on current issues. Expansive examination of the settings in which public interest practice occurs, including nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and private law firms. Presents the advantages and limits of different legal strategies in public interest practice, including lobbying, public education, community organizing, and community economic development. Addresses contemporary challenges of public interest law in context, including economics and financing, legal ethics, the role of legal education, and the globalization of public interest practice. Discusses critiques of public interest law, including a reflection about the role of lawyers in social movements that addresses contemporary critiques. Ethical obligations of public interest lawyers. Explores special issues related to lawyer-client relations in social change contexts. Extensive coverage of: Models of law reform organizations. Conservative cause lawyering. Government lawyers. The economics of social change lawyering. Global social change lawyering.
Becoming a Public Interest Lawyer
Author: Nicole Hallett (Law professor)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781685615574
Category : Practice of law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Becoming a Public Interest Lawyer is a comprehensive guide for prospective, current, and recently-graduated law students who want a career in public interest law. It helps students decide which kind of public interest job is right for them and then gives them the tools and information they need to land their dream job. It provides candid, practical advice on how to choose a law school, survive the first year, develop a resume, search for a job, and manage student debt. Extended sections cover summer internships, public interest fellowships, law school extracurricular activities, and life after law school as a public interest lawyer. It is written for those who want to use their law degree to do good in the world but who need help charting their path. Anyone can have a meaningful, successful public interest legal career. This book lights the way.
Lawful Pursuit
Author: Ronald W. FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Official Guide to Legal Specialties
Author: Lisa L. AbramsPublisher: Harcourt Brace Legal and Professional Publications
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
At head of title: The National Association for Law Placement.
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Employment forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Food Law and Policy
Author: Jacob E. GersenPublisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 9781454858058
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Food Law and Policy surveys the elements of modern food law. It broadens the coverage of traditional food and drug law topics of safety, marketing, and nutrition, and includes law governing environment, international trade, and other legal aspects of the modern food system. The result is the first casebook that provides a comprehensive treatment of food law as a unique discipline. Key Features: Draws together cases with other regulatory materials such as rulemaking documents and agency requests for proposals for grant funding. Focuses on federal law and includes discussion of innovations in food law happening at the municipal, state and federal level. Covers the latest developments in food law.
