Lawyers in Your Living Room!

Lawyers in Your Living Room!
Author: Michael Asimow
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781604423280

From Perry Mason and The Defenders in the 1960s to L.A. Law in the 80s, The Practice and Ally McBeal in the 90s, to Boston Legal, Shark and Law & Order today, the television industry has generated an endless stream of dramatic series involving law and lawyers. This new guide examines television series from the past and present, domestic and foreign, that are devoted to the law.

50 Lessons for Lawyers

50 Lessons for Lawyers
Author: Nora Riva Bergman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-10
Genre: Practice of law
ISBN: 9780997263701

You take care of your clients, your staff, and your law practice. Now it's time to take care of yourself. In 50 Lessons for Lawyers, Nora Riva Bergman shares the latest strategies on productivity, marketing, and leadership, together with the lessons she's learned in her years as a practicing attorney and business coach. You'll get bite-sized, easily digestible advice and tips on how you can start living each lesson right now Providing advice and insight to lawyers who want to earn more and stress less, Nora highlights simple strategies that will put you on the road to awesome. Read individually or as a whole, each lesson equips you with the tools and motivation you need to kick old habits and develop new routines that will improve your life and practice one step at a time. With lessons that fit into your busy schedule, it is easy to put the strategies that you learn into action each week. Nora teaches essentials that professors left out in law school-from managing your time to delegating effectively to attracting the clients that you deserve-making this book a go-to guide you'll return to again and again throughout your career.

Life After Law

Life After Law
Author: Liz Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351861476

Written by Harvard-trained ex-law firm partner Liz Brown, Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have provides specific, realistic, and honest advice on alternative careers for lawyers. Unlike generic career guides, Life After Law shows lawyers how to reframe their legal experience to their competitive advantage, no matter how long they have been in or out of practice, to find work they truly love. Brown herself moved from a high-powered partnership into an alternative career and draws from this experience, as well as that of dozens of former practicing attorneys, in the book. She acknowledges that changing careers is hard much harder than it was for most lawyers to get their first legal job after law school but it can ultimately be more fulfilling for many than a life in law. Life After Law offers an alternative framework and valuable analytic tools for potential careers to help launch lawyers into new fields and make them attractive hires for non-legal employers.

Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture
Author: Michael Asimow
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1443861588

Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as a whole, and it is no exaggeration to say that most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products. Movies, television programs, fiction, children’s literature, online games, and the mass media typically influence attitudes and impressions regarding law and legal institutions more than law and legal institutions themselves. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives enhances the appreciation of the interaction between popular culture and law by underscoring this interaction’s multinational and international features. Two dozen authors from nine countries invite readers to consider the role of law-related popular culture in a broad range of nations, socio-political contexts, and educational environments. Even more importantly, selected contributors explore the global transmission and reception of law-related cultural products and, in particular, the influence of assorted works and media across national borders and cultural boundaries. The circulation and consumption of law-related popular culture are increasing as channels of mass media become more complex and as globalization runs its uncertain course. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives adds to the critical understanding of the worldwide interaction of popular culture and law and encourages reflection on the wider implications of this mutual influence across both time and geography.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Law and Justice on the Small Screen

Law and Justice on the Small Screen
Author: Peter Robson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847319947

'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Television shows from France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States are discussed. The essays are organised into three sections: (1) methodological questions regarding the analysis of law and popular culture on television; (2) a focus on genre studies within television programming (including a subsection on reality television), and (3) content analysis of individual television shows with attention to big-picture jurisprudential questions of law's efficacy and the promise of justice. The book's content is organised to make it appropriate for undergraduate and graduate classes in the following areas: media studies, law and culture, socio-legal studies, comparative law, jurisprudence, the law of lawyering, alternative dispute resolution and criminal law. Individual chapters have been contributed by, among others: Taunya Banks, Paul Bergman, Lief Carter, Christine Corcos, Rebecca Johnson, Stefan Machura, Nancy Marder, Michael McCann, Kimberlianne Podlas and Susan Ross, with an Introduction by Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey.

The Addicted Lawyer

The Addicted Lawyer
Author: Brian Cuban
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2017-08-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1682613712

Brian Cuban was living a lie. With a famous last name and a successful career as a lawyer, Brian was able to hide his clinical depression and alcohol and cocaine addictions—for a while. Today, as an inspirational speaker in long-term recovery, Brian looks back on his journey with honesty, compassion, and even humor as he reflects both on what he has learned about himself and his career choice and how the legal profession enables addiction. His demons, which date to his childhood, controlled him through failed marriages and stays in a psychiatric facility, until they brought him to the brink of suicide. That was his wake-up call. This is his story. Brian also takes an in-depth look at why there is such a high percentage of problematic alcohol use and other mental health issues in the legal profession. What types of therapies work? Are 12-step programs the only answer? Brian also includes interviews with experts on the subject as well as others in the profession who are now in recovery. The Addicted Lawyer is both a serious study of addiction and a compelling story of redemption.

An Elephant in the Living Room

An Elephant in the Living Room
Author: Wendell Whitney Thorne
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1438963823

If You Hate Lawyers, you'll Love An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"? The United States has drifted away from the Founders' concept of "We The People" to a nation gripped by the rule of Law. Nearly everything we do on a daily basis from before we're born until after we die falls under the cloud of The Law. Worse than that, in the past several decades The Law has deputized us into a legion of civil litigants and pseudo-prosecutors who have been conditioned to seek legal retribution for every conceivable wrongdoing of another. The problem? The Law is a shaky house of cards poorly constructed and self-affirmed by her well-paid practitioners, whose sole goal is to stir the pot of dispute amongst The People to feed the greedy monster called "The Law," and to line the pockets of her lawyers. An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"? is one insider's view--one who's "been there, done that"--of The Law; how it hurts, how it hinders, and how it subtlely but deftly burdens The People with mind-boggling constraints on Liberty, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness. An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"?, through both personal experience anecdotes as well as historically significant legal cases, tells it like it is in layman's language while offering inspiration and encouragement, empowering The People to take our Country back!

The Organized Lawyer

The Organized Lawyer
Author: Kelly Anders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Law offices
ISBN: 9781611634006

Organizational skills and professionalism go hand-in-hand, and the topic belongs in any course related to lawyering skills. Now in its second edition, this book addresses the organizational needs and challenges of modern lawyers and law students, and it includes fresh and useful tips for even the most seasoned practitioners. We each have an organizational type that dictates how we live among our things. With topics ranging from attorney attire and effective marketing to developing attractive and efficient workspaces in the office, at home, and on the go, The Organized Lawyer is an essential reference for lawyers at all levels. "Overall, The Organized Lawyer is a useful guide for the attorney who is ready to get serious about being organized." --Alison M. Hancock, Law Library Journal Praise for the First Edition "More than just another book on how to get organized, Anders addresses all the professional needs of attorneys." --Library Journal "This book is a useful resource for attorneys interested in achieving a more organized and supportive work environment, and[,] as such, is an appropriate addition to any law library." --AALL Spectrum "Written in an engaging, conversational style, she presents a fresh approach to organization." --Court Review "Every chapter has at least one or two fresh ideas that even the most experienced and well-organized attorney can implement to improve his or her work space." --Colorado Lawyer "There are many useful tips and thought processes that can be used by any attorney, regardless of years in practice or size of firm." --Wisconsin Lawyer Praise for the Second Edition "Overall, The Organized Lawyer is a useful guide for the attorney who is ready to get serious about being organized. The book helps readers develop their own organizational systems rather than imposing a particular system on them. This makes it more likely that changes made as a result of reading the book will be lasting changes because those changes will be based on the conscious decisions of the readers." -Alison M. Hancock, Law Library Journal

Lawyer Boy

Lawyer Boy
Author: Rick Lax
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2008-07-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1429969660

After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents' house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents' food, sitting on his parents' couch, and watching The Price is Right. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties. Rick's father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasn't going to get a job, so he went to law school instead. This is the story of Rick's journey from childhood to lawyerhood. In Lawyer Boy, Rick uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny it's criminal.