Take Charge of Your Legal Career

Take Charge of Your Legal Career
Author: Mary Carmel Kaczmarek
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013-09-04
Genre: Career development
ISBN: 9780615872605

Every attorney has the potential to take control of his or her career and to build a sustaining book of business. Take Charge of Your Legal Career: A Practical Business Development Workbook will help you jump-start the process. This step-wise approach to finding and keeping clients breaks down this often daunting activity into manageable tasks that will yield benefits over the life of your career. Through case studies, practical exercises, worksheets and online tools, you'll cultivate the habits you need to identify promising clients, ask for their business, and deftly manage client relationships, while continuously developing new ones. The Practical Business Development Workbook demystifies the business of building business and helps you merge it seamlessly into everyday practice at every stage of your career.

Take Charge

Take Charge
Author: Norman Bacal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781988387215

Do you want to become a successful professional? Do you know what it takes? There are many soft skills you need to master in order to become great. Skills not taught in any school. You also need a plan for your career that begins with your first interview and never ends. The approaches of over twenty outstanding professionals and the secrets of my own success as a prominent entertainment attorney and law firm leader are gathered in one practical manual designed to show you how you can take charge of your career. Learn from successful lawyers, accountants, and other professionals about the many tips they picked up along the way that apply to you. Tips and ideas to guide you through your entire career. "Whether you are in college or just starting your career, this book is a roadmap to turbo charge your career." - Bill Carmody, TEDx Storyteller, Executive Coach and Bestselling Author of The Three Rules of Marriage "A thought-provoking, practical and insightful book loaded with 'nuggets of gold' to power your career forward." -Barry Beloff, President, Inspiratum Executive Coaching "Advice and insights on the dynamics of practice that should be part and parcel of a professional education." -Justice Lorne Sossin, former Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School

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.

Taking Charge of Your Career

Taking Charge of Your Career
Author: Camilla Arnold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1472933354

The world of work is changing dramatically and jobs for life have become a thing of the past. Even people moving up the corporate ladder are questioning their choices and considering new possibilities, such as work/life balance or portfolio working. If you want to take charge of your career but don't know where to start, change can feel unobtainable - a pipe dream. This action-oriented and pragmatic book will help you overcome the barriers to deciding on a career and changing career, giving you a proven roadmap to achieve your goals. Taking Charge of Your Career will lead you step-by-step through the process of building your career strategy and making it happen. Full of exercises and self-assessment tools to help you make the right choices, it also includes real-life stories of successful career changers.

The New what Can You Do with a Law Degree?

The New what Can You Do with a Law Degree?
Author: Larry Richard (Lawyer)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780940675711

"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 satisfiaction"--Page 4 of cover.

The 5 A.M. Miracle

The 5 A.M. Miracle
Author: Jeff Sanders
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1612435335

Begin your day the right way with this blueprint for maximizing productivity, perfecting your schedule, and making more time to enjoy life. The 5 A.M. Miracle is a resource guide for high-achievers. It provides a seven-step blueprint for anyone looking for a structured system that will hone their passions, clarify their big goals, and produce real, amazing results. Productivity coach Jeff Sanders is a big fan of early mornings. But his blueprint is about more than just waking up early. It’s about intentionality. In The 5 AM Miracle, Jeff breaks down an easy-to-follow system of healthy habits, daily routines, and productivity strategies. It’s more actionable content than you could possibly imagine. He then summarizes this multitude of ideas into a clear, thirty-day action plan.

An Associate's First Year

An Associate's First Year
Author: Jennifer L. Bluestein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781402432712

An Associate's First Year: A Guide to Thriving at a Law Firm provides guidance on the expectations of a first year attorney, establishing yourself as a leader within the firm, receiving and responding to performance feedback, and much more.

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Author: Henci Goer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1999-08-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1440674302

As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions of your life--how you will give birth—it is hard to gather accurate, unbiased information. Surprisingly, much of the research does not support common medical opinion and practice. Birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies. The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth helps you compare and contrast your various options and shows you how to avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, restrictions, and tests. The book covers: Cesareans Breech babies Inducing labor Electronic Fetal Monitoring Rupturing Membranes Coping with slow labor Pain medication Epistiotomy Vaginal birth after a Ceasarean Doulas Deciding on a doctor or midwife Choosing where to have your baby and much more . . .

The Legal Career Guide

The Legal Career Guide
Author: Gary A. Munneke
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590310595

Introducing the latest edition of this step-by-step guide for planning and executing a job search. This book is filled with practical advice that will help anyone find their personal niche in the legal profession.