The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career: What Every Young Lawyer Must Know to Avoid the Mistakes and Maximize the Value of a Career in the Law (Paperback)
Review
“Cannon’s book reads like sound advice from a trusted older sibling. While The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career offers specific advice for the short term, it also asks young lawyers and law students to consider where they want to be further down the road. The book is more than just a primer on how to get a job; Cannon provides insight into how young lawyers can lay the foundation today for a happy and successful career many years from now. Most I importantly, Cannon describes what to do and what not to do in detail, rather than leaving the reader with the typical recitation of bromides and generalities.” — Timothy P. Peterson, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, former SEC Senior Counsel”I wish I’d had access to a book such as this when I was going through law school. Cannon’s truly unusual breadth of experience across different legal functions and practice areas gives him an extraordinary vantage point from which to comment on the profession. His book is replete with astute observations and practical advice.” — Eric John Finseth, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP“This should be required reading for all law students, young lawyers, and those considering a career in the law. Cannon’s book is chock full of practical advice and insider knowledge.” — Theodore N. Stern, Vice president and general counsel, ePals, Inc.
The world doesn’t need another book about how to ace law school. But prospective and young lawyers do need the information and insight in this book to equip them with the expertise to make the right choices and fully develop a legal career, from law school to the decades beyond. The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career offers a balanced and critical perspective on every issue relating to a legal education and the profession of law today, including: Factors to consider when deciding to become an attorney Getting the most out of law school, from working as a summer associate to taking the bar Answers to common questions about working with law firms, including average salaries and bonuses, billable hours, and whether size matters How to make partner, and the effect that obtaining it or not has on you, personally and professionally When and how to orchestrate laterals and avoiding the potential negative side effects Career alternatives to law firms and transitioning to another profession, such as banking, business, and the government
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Letters to a Young Lawyer (Art of Mentoring) (Paperback)
From Publishers Weekly
Dershowitz helps inaugurate a new series called the Art of Mentoring with this volume of advice and reflection on practicing law. Several unifying themes run throughout, most prominently the ethical traps for defense attorneys, prosecutors and even judges inherent in the practice of criminal law. Dershowitz alerts a fledgling lawyer to the systemic bias, corner-cutting and outright cheating that he sees permeating the criminal courts. While Dershowitz recognizes the ethical ambiguity that suffuses much of the law, he is more concerned with communicating the moral absolutes he believes in. These include the uncompromising obligation of a defense lawyer to work for the accused’s acquittal by all legitimate means. A believer in telling the truth, Dershowitz excoriates deceitful lawyers and hypocritical judges alike. Along with the moral imperatives, the author tells some war stories and settles a few scores, for example, with critics who took him to task for defending O.J. Simpson, and with the Supreme Court, whose decision in the 2000 election case Dershowitz finds dishonest and unprincipled. The young lawyer (to whom these mini-essays are addressed) will perceive how ethically messy and complicated the law can be and how many core issues in our national life the law touches. Even more, the reader will come away with a sense of Dershowitz himself as teacher, tenacious advocate and self-described provocateur. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
Rilke is hot this year–as an advice-giver. His Letters to a Young Poet is the point of reference for Dershowitz’s “oral letters,” part of a new series called the Art of Mentoring, and for Christopher Hitchens’ commentary on contrarianism (see p.271). Having written more than a dozen previous books, Dershowitz is a known quantity; readers tend to be either fans or foes. Those who like him will find plenty of commonsense suggestions here, on heroes and enemies and on morality and wealth. The “young lawyer” of the title is the book’s most obvious target reader, but Dershowitz’s commentary on his profession will also appeal to those who work with lawyers and even to readers who love legal thrillers. And because attorneys simply face different versions of the challenges most white-collar workers face, much of Dershowitz’s advice can be applied in other workplaces as well. Likely to circulate where Dershowitz’s other books are popular. Mary CarrollCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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