Law, Enlightenment, and Other States of Mind
ISBN: 9780989097000 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of Kevin's blog posts for the Colorado Bar Association is "for anyone, lawyer or not, who wants to create or at least embrace change in their workplaces and personal lives. And not just change, but transformation." Written with humor, empathy, insight, and perspective not just from the law, but also psychology, neuroscience, entrepreneurship, and shared life experience. From the Foreword by Ronald M. Sandgrund, Esq.: Drawing on his professional and personal sojourn through that minefield called life, and with inestimable wit and wisdom, Kevin offers advice, humor and insight...
This collection of Kevin's blog posts for the Colorado Bar Association is "for anyone, lawyer or not, who wants to create or at least embrace change i...
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69,06 zł |
The Emotional Dynamics of Law and Legal Discourse
ISBN: 9781849467872 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his seminal work on Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that the common view of human intelligence is far too narrow and that emotions play a much greater role in thought, decision-making, and individual success than is commonly acknowledged. The importance of emotion to the human experience cannot be denied, yet the relationship between law and emotions is one that has largely been ignored. However, the last two decades have seen a rapidly expanding interest among scholars of all disciplines into the way in which law and the emotions interact, including the law's response to...
In his seminal work on Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that the common view of human intelligence is far too narrow and that emotions ...
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492,77 zł |
Managing Legal Uncertainty: Elite Lawyers in the New Deal
ISBN: 9780822316503 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,90 zł |
The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis
ISBN: 9780465065592 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is unfolding. News headlines tell part of the storythe growing oversupply of new lawyers, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of pre-eminent law firms. Yet eager hordes of bright young people continue to step over each other as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming hours, and little assurance of financial stability. The Great Recession has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and,...
A noble profession is facing its defining moment. From law schools to the prestigious firms that represent the pinnacle of a legal career, a crisis is...
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141,74 zł |
Competition Law Within a Framework of Rights: Applying the Charter and the Convention
ISBN: 9782804477714 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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349,39 zł |
I'm A Solicitor. Get Me Out Of Here!: A Guide for Solicitors who wish to sell, merge or value their Practices
ISBN: 9781516950546 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many years ago, when I first started my own company, I was reminded of a comment made by Benjamin Franklin. There were two aspects of life that no one could avoid - death and taxes. However, when you run a law firm, there's a third possibility that you can't avoid - at some time you're going to have to sell, merge or get your Practice valued. When I talk to Solicitors about succession planning, their eyes tend to glaze over and they generally take the view that as long as they bury their heads for long enough and deep enough in the sand, the problem will go away. The trouble is that these...
Many years ago, when I first started my own company, I was reminded of a comment made by Benjamin Franklin. There were two aspects of life that no one...
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Professional Prosperity for Lawyers: Find the Perfect Job and Create Your Ideal Career
ISBN: 9780692547847 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lawyers, You Can Revitalize Your Career Starting Today.
Whether you are in law school or a senior partner at an Am Law 100 firm, this book can help you revitalize your career to find the perfect job and create your ideal career. Benjamin Barton, a law professor at the University of Tennessee, in his recent book on the legal profession, stated that only "44 percent of BigLaw lawyers report satisfaction with their careers." According to a 2014 Gallup poll, only 32.4% of professionals in the United States were engaged with their jobs. And over 15% were actively... Lawyers, You Can Revitalize Your Career Starting Today.
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Unlocking the Secrets of Legal Genius: Measuring Specialist Legal Expertise Through Think-Aloud Verbal Protocol Analysis
ISBN: 9781518600975 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us have heard the phrase "To think like a lawyer." But not many people really know how lawyers think. Even fewer know how expert lawyers think. Yet the tools needed to discover how lawyers assess legal risk and solve legal problems have been around for years. They've just never been adapted for this purpose ... until now. This book outlines an empirically-proven approach to investigating the unique characteristics of legal thinking - particularly the thinking of legal experts - through the use of experimental methods and techniques from the field of cognitive science. It describes in...
Most of us have heard the phrase "To think like a lawyer." But not many people really know how lawyers think. Even fewer know how expert lawyers think...
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322,91 zł |
Women-At-Law: Lessons Learned Along the Pathways to Success
ISBN: 9781634252386 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much has changed in the ten years since the publication of the first edition of Women-at-Law. But, unfortunately, much has also stayed the same. Women are still confronting issues of promotions and equal pay, while also struggling to maintain a healthy work/life balance. But no woman is alone in the legal profession, and Women-at-Law, Second Edition is the guide that proves it. Author Phyllis Epstein has interviewed over 500 women lawyers of all ages, backgrounds, and lifestyles nationwide to address how women today are meeting the challenges of competing in the legal profession without...
Much has changed in the ten years since the publication of the first edition of Women-at-Law. But, unfortunately, much has also stayed the same. Women...
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289,33 zł |
Diversity in Practice: Race, Gender, and Class in Legal and Professional Careers
ISBN: 9781107123656 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.
Leading scholars look beyond the rhetoric of diversity to reveal the ongoing obstacles to professional success for traditionally disadvantaged groups.
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Richard Posner
ISBN: 9780199332311 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes provocative books as a public intellectual, receives frequent media attention, and has been at the center of some very high-profile legal spats. He is also a member of an increasingly rare breed-judges who write their own opinions rather than delegating the work to clerks-and therefore we have...
Judge Richard Posner is one of the great legal minds of our age, on par with such generation-defining judges as Holmes, Hand, and Friendly. A judge on...
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Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
ISBN: 9789004294936 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland's legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive survey of lawyers working in the local and central courts; investigating how they interacted with their clients and with each other, the legal principles governing ethical practice, and how they fulfilled a social role through providing free services to the poor and also services to town councils and other corporations. Based heavily on a wide range of archival sources, and reflecting the contemporary importance of local societies of lawyers, John...
This book is the first monograph to analyse the workings of Scotland's legal profession in its early modern European context. It is a comprehensive su...
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Transforming the Practice of Law: Reclaiming the Soul of the Legal Profession
ISBN: 9780692514122 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a thoughtful, in-depth analysis of the current state of the legal profession in the United States. Many lawyers are experiencing profound distress and dissatisfaction in their professional lives and public esteem for the legal profession has fallen to an all-time low. The author describes how the current state of affairs results from a combination of factors, including the nature of legal education, the emergence of zealous representation as a guiding principle for the behavior of lawyers, and the commercialization of the private practice of law. The book also contains the...
This book presents a thoughtful, in-depth analysis of the current state of the legal profession in the United States. Many lawyers are experiencing pr...
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87,54 zł |
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois: A Progressive Tackles State Government,1970-2015
ISBN: 9781504983860 / Angielski / Twarda / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois is an oral history of Aaron Jaffe's legislative, judicial, and executive branch careers. It is also a story of how the author met Judge Jaffe and gained wisdom from a master politician operating in one of America's most notorious political battlegrounds. As legislator, Jaffe changed rape laws to reflect victims' perspectives. Though white, he was recruited to the Black Caucus because of a better voting record than other legislators, black or white. As judge, he presided over divorce laws he passed as legislator and, in Chancery Court, preserved the...
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois is an oral history of Aaron Jaffe's legislative, judicial, and executive branch careers. It is also a story of h...
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Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois: A Progressive Tackles State Government,1970-2015
ISBN: 9781504983853 / Angielski / Miękka / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois is an oral history of Aaron Jaffe's legislative, judicial, and executive branch careers. It is also a story of how the author met Judge Jaffe and gained wisdom from a master politician operating in one of America's most notorious political battlegrounds. As legislator, Jaffe changed rape laws to reflect victims' perspectives. Though white, he was recruited to the Black Caucus because of a better voting record than other legislators, black or white. As judge, he presided over divorce laws he passed as legislator and, in Chancery Court, preserved the...
Judge Aaron Jaffe: Reforming Illinois is an oral history of Aaron Jaffe's legislative, judicial, and executive branch careers. It is also a story of h...
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151,78 zł |
The Sociology of the Professions: Lawyers, Doctors and Others
ISBN: 9781610277914 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse chapters--written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers into the sociology of the professions--was groundbreaking when first published in 1983 and has influenced scholars, practitioners, and professionals since. Not limited to one occupation or field, as are most such studies, this collection examines across traditional fields the idea and practice of professions and professionals. The 2016 hardcover edition features a substantive foreword by Professor Sida Liu of the University of...
Robert Dingwall and Philip Lewis's renowned compilation of diverse chapters--written by internationally recognized theorists and empirical researchers...
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211,83 zł |
The Attorney's Guide to Using (or Not Using) Legal Recruiters: Answers to important questions most attorneys don't know to ask ... but should
ISBN: 9780692603215 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legal recruiters can play an important role in the careers of attorneys, but there is surprisingly little information available regarding the process of selecting and engaging a recruiter and best protecting your interests. For example, when should you use a recruiter versus applying to a position on your own? What types of employers do and don't use recruiters? What type of information will the recruiter keep confidential versus having a duty to disclose to the employer? How do you determine whether the smooth and confident phone demeanor of a cold caller is rooted in actual substantive...
Legal recruiters can play an important role in the careers of attorneys, but there is surprisingly little information available regarding the process ...
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1034,76 zł |
Being a Judge in the Modern World
ISBN: 9780198796602 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever. Indeed, many argue that the sovereignty of parliament is eroding and being replaced by the respective power of judges. The Jackson Reforms of 2010, for example, saw judges bestowed with more power over case and budget management than ever before. Equally, courtrooms are transforming under the weight of technological innovation and the increasing presence of litigants in person.
Stemming from a series of lectures arranged by the Judicial College on the theme of 'Being a Judge in the Modern... The role of the judiciary is constantly evolving and is in many ways more important than ever. Indeed, many argue that the sovereignty of parliament i...
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205,26 zł |
In Practice: Moving Beyond Law School Theory
ISBN: 9780992444624 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,89 zł |
The Business of Law: Social, Economic and Ethical Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Services
ISBN: 9781849466936 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Legal Services around the world, but particularly in England and Wales, are undergoing a profound change. Commercial pressures have increased. Regulatory structures are changing. Innovation has begun to bite. Traditional paradigms of professionalism and lawyering are challenged by new entrants and more assertive regulators. Consumer power is on the rise. The impact on the quality, price and ethicality of lawyering needs serious scrutiny. Law students, policy makers and practitioners need to understand that inquiry.This book aims to document and explore the dynamics of law as a business. It...
Legal Services around the world, but particularly in England and Wales, are undergoing a profound change. Commercial pressures have increased. Regulat...
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181,55 zł |