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Declining Prospects: How Extraordinary Competition and Compensation Are Changing America's Major Law Firms
ISBN: 9781475053739 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Declining Prospects," written by a leading expert on law firm economics and operations, describes the dramatic growth and change in many major American law firms in recent years, analyses their prospects for continued profitability and sustainability, and focuses on the vulnerabilities of many important firms manifested most recently by the collapse of Dewey & LeBoeuf. The book explains why and how such growth and change has come about including 1) greatly increased competition for available legal work resulting from the ubiquity of highly capable corporate law departments and a surplus of...
"Declining Prospects," written by a leading expert on law firm economics and operations, describes the dramatic growth and change in many major Americ...
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55,43 zł |
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Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys
ISBN: 9780826519108 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. What it is like for these capital defenders in their last visits or phone calls with clients who are about to be taken to the execution chamber? Or the next mornings, in their lives with their families, in their dreams and flashbacks and moments alone in the car? What is it...
How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of th...
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621,93 zł |
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Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys
ISBN: 9780826519115 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. What it is like for these capital defenders in their last visits or phone calls with clients who are about to be taken to the execution chamber? Or the next mornings, in their lives with their families, in their dreams and flashbacks and moments alone in the car? What is it...
How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with twenty of th...
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252,37 zł |
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Lawyers at Work
ISBN: 9781430245032 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "With probing questions and articulate answers, Cosslett and her subjects shed light on the challenges of legal practice in the current legal market." BLS Law Notes, 11.16.12
Lawyers at Work reveals what it means and what it takes to be a satisfied, sane, and successful lawyer in today s tough legal marketplace. Through incisive in-depth interviews, a top legal headhunter gives the 3rd degree to 15 successful lawyers who run the gamut of the legal profession. Practice areas represented in these profiles range from employment discrimination to corporate defense, from... "With probing questions and articulate answers, Cosslett and her subjects shed light on the challenges of legal practice in the current legal market."...
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107,92 zł |
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American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change
ISBN: 9780199917631 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis. The American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change analyzes the efforts of the legal profession to protect and maintain the status quo even as the world around it changed. Author James E. Moliterno, consistently argues that the profession has resisted societal change and sought to ban or discourage new models of legal...
Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure duri...
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545,80 zł |
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Morgan and Rotunda's Selected Standards on Professional Responsibility, 2013
ISBN: 9781609301507 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,47 zł |
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Growth Is Dead: Now What?: Law firms on the brink
ISBN: 9781481896047 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its Second Edition
"Growth is Dead" addresses the future of "BigLaw" (or "SophisticatedLaw") in the wake of the great financial reset of 2008 and its continuing repercussions including: (a) relentless pricing pressures; (b) excess capacity; (c) partner expectations; and (d) the accelerating entry of new "legal service provider" organizations, with all their implications for career paths, the traditional leveraged staffing model of law firms, and much more. Brad Karp, Chair of the Firm at Paul Weiss, describes it thus: "I read all 12 installments of your series with great... Now in its Second Edition
"Growth is Dead" addresses the future of "BigLaw" (or "SophisticatedLaw") in the wake of the great financial reset of 2008... |
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69,06 zł |
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Benchslapped: Publicly Humiliating Judicial Opinions
ISBN: 9781475144512 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the incorrigible Judge Sparks to the benchslap factory known as the Seventh Circuit to the rural districts of Kentucky, the humiliating judicial opinions in this book are accompanied by an entertaining and wide-ranging discussion of the glories and vagaries of the U.S. legal system. You will laugh at the judicial take downs described in this book, but you should laugh nervously. After all, you could be next
"Benchslapped" is more than compilation of legal snippets. It contains substantial passages drawn from some of the most interesting and amusing benchslaps ever published, along... From the incorrigible Judge Sparks to the benchslap factory known as the Seventh Circuit to the rural districts of Kentucky, the humiliating judicial ...
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59,82 zł |
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Law as Engineering: Thinking About What Lawyers Do
ISBN: 9780857933775 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigation, and having much in common with engineering in the way it produces devices useful for its clients. It uses that comparison to propose ways of improving legal design, to advocate a transformation of legal ethics so that the profession learns from its role in the crash of 2008, and to reform legal education and research.
Law as Engineering proposes a radically new way of thinking about law, as a profession and discipline concerned with design rather than with litigatio...
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534,05 zł |
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Country Lawyers: The Impact of Context on Professional Practice
ISBN: 9780275930424 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Country Lawyers explores and analyzes a special segment of the legal profession--lawyers practicing in rural areas, villages, small towns and cities. The first broad-based study of its kind, the volume focuses on lawyers practicing in the smallest settings in order to determine whether the practicing rural bar is as profoundly shaped by the environment in which it operates as the metropolitan bar has been shown to be in previous studies. Based on interviews with 201 attorneys from 116 different communities, this work identifies the structuring influences that operate in small-town... Country Lawyers explores and analyzes a special segment of the legal profession--lawyers practicing in rural areas, villages, small towns an... |
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299,72 zł |
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Franchise Law Firms and the Transformation of Personal Legal Services
ISBN: 9781567201352 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As lawyers, legal scholars, and academics throughout the social sciences debate the future of legal work and the legal profession itself, they turn their attention inevitably to the rise of the franchise law firms. Founded in response to the changing market for legal services, franchise law firms have grown dramatically in recent years, but at what cost to clients and lawyers alike? This book focuses on how professional organizations (and the related work experience) are influenced by economics and the way various firms have excelled by mass producing a basic menu of services--by placing... As lawyers, legal scholars, and academics throughout the social sciences debate the future of legal work and the legal profession itself, they turn... |
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403,26 zł |
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Life After Law: Finding Work You Love with the J.D. You Have
ISBN: 9781937134648 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
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, a...
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144,90 zł |
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Starting a Law Practice for New Lawyers: This is a short and practical guide for new and even experienced lawyers looking to get their own practice st
ISBN: 9781489580894 / Angielski / Miękka / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a quick how to guide for new/newer attorneys looking to get started with, or enhance their current practice. It is a compilation of guidelines compiled by the actual practice of law, not by theory. It is a useful guide that will help new/newer attorneys avoid mistakes and optimize the potential of their practice while minimizing expense and related costs.
This is a quick how to guide for new/newer attorneys looking to get started with, or enhance their current practice. It is a compilation of guidelines...
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69,29 zł |
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The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology
ISBN: 9780198764960 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a leading expert on computers and law, this important new book shows exactly why and how information technology (IT) will radically alter the practice of law and the administration of justice.
Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is re-engineering the entire legal process, resulting in legal products and information services whose focus will be dispute pre-emption rather than dispute resolution, and legal risk management rather than legal problem solving. With easy and inexpensive access available, IT will help integrate the law with... Written by a leading expert on computers and law, this important new book shows exactly why and how information technology (IT) will radically alter t...
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334,91 zł |
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The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services
ISBN: 9780199593613 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has provoked a tidal wave of debate within the legal profession, being hailed as an inspiration by some and as heresy by others. Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers, and indeed all those in a professional service environment. He urges them to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working. The challenge for legal readers is to identify their distinctive skills and talents,...
This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has provoked a tidal wave of debate within the legal profession, being hailed as an inspiration by some and as ...
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155,84 zł |
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Corporate Governance of Non-Listed Companies
ISBN: 9780199596386 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies of corporate governance traditionally focus on the governance problems of large publicly held firms, and policymakers' recommendations often focus on such firms. However most small firms, and in many countries, even many large companies, are non-listed. Corporate Governance of Non-Listed Companies provides a comprehensive account of non-listed businesses and their particular governance problems. It explores current discussions and reforms in Europe, the United States, and Asia providing a state of the art account of the law and the economics. Non-listed firms encompass a vast range,...
Studies of corporate governance traditionally focus on the governance problems of large publicly held firms, and policymakers' recommendations often f...
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290,77 zł |
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Employability Skills for Law Students
ISBN: 9780199663231 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unsure what skills employers are looking for or how best to develop and demonstrate them? With coverage of the core academic, practical, and transferable skills that can be gained during your studies, Employability Skills for Law Students will help you develop the employability skills you need to pursue your chosen career on graduation.
Unsure what skills employers are looking for or how best to develop and demonstrate them? With coverage of the core academic, practical, and transfera...
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128,87 zł |
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Lawyering Skills and the Legal Process
ISBN: 9780521619509 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book develops students' understanding and practice of client interviewing, writing and drafting, negotiation and advocacy in the context of extensive research in the legal profession and the civil and criminal justice systems. It emphasizes the extent to which lawyering is a dynamic process, determined by a variety of legal, business and ethical considerations. It encourages students to develop a critical and reflective approach geared to developing their abilities to manage this dynamic environment.
This book develops students' understanding and practice of client interviewing, writing and drafting, negotiation and advocacy in the context of exten...
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231,86 zł |
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Advocacy
ISBN: 9780521884761 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advocacy, first published in 2007, explains how to win cases in court. Focusing on the techniques and methods of successful advocates, David Ross QC shows how to prepare a case for court. Writing in simple, clear language he gives the benefit of his many years of local and international experience. This second edition features new advice about how to prepare for, and run, an appeal, as well as how to write effective submissions to court. It also describes: how to hold a court's attention how to start and stop a witness how to cross-examine all types of people, from liars to experts the...
Advocacy, first published in 2007, explains how to win cases in court. Focusing on the techniques and methods of successful advocates, David Ross QC s...
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251,48 zł |
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Law, Ideology, and Collegiality : Judicial Behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada
ISBN: 9780773539297 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and measures that tap their perceived ideological tendencies to provide a critical examination of the ideological roots of judicial decision making, uncovering the complexity of contemporary judicial behaviour. Examining judicial behaviour through the lens of three different research strategies grounded in qualitative and quantitative methodologies, Law, Ideology, and Collegiality presents compelling evidence that political ideology is a key factor in decision making and a...
The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and measures that tap their perceive...
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144,90 zł |
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