Careers | Seton Hall Law: General Exploration of Careers

Advice on how to look beyond obvious practice areas. Suggestions on which specialties will grow in demand.

The social scientist authors have researched and identified the attitudes and motivations needed to flourish at large law firms. They show readers how to develop those mindsets and skills.

A legal recruiter answers questions from real lawyers looking for a job or concerned about careers obstacle.

A big picture view of how law firms of the future will be structured to give better, faster, and cheaper legal services, using outsourcing and value-based billing. Discusses ethical considerations of such changes. Useful suggested reading list.

Help to attorneys seeking to improve their job skills and to create a career plan responsive to the changing environment.

Advice on how to take a realistic look at both opportunities and challenges faced by women.

eBook. Backed by new research, the author advises applicants how to demonstrate their potential value to prospective employer and how to better understand the text of a job description. He explains the way to make career choices by focusing on more than following your passion.

Advice on self-management, relationships, and knowing and owning your own brand that will help beginning and experienced attorneys build a better business and a richer life.

Tips shared by 9 minority women lawyers who have succeeded in a range of practice areas.

Advice on a wide range of topics: legal writing, speaking, handling clients and managing the relationships with judges, opposing counsel, and your local legal community.

A study of practicing African-American attorneys explores how they entered and navigated the pipeline to the legal profession.

Strategies for entry-level attorneys competing with experienced attorneys for jobs. Advice on how to circumvent job hunting obstacles.

Also in West Academic Subscription. Job exploration and search advice aimed at students and recent grads. Includes sections on some specialized careers.

Tips on how to plan to succeed in networking, building alliances, expertise, client, operations and systems management.

Nuts and bolts of planning and building a law practice. Good tips on early career decision making in Part I.

Advice on how to adjust one’s attitudes and tap into available resources during networking and job searching.

Recommendations for career development aimed at different career stages: beginning, experienced, and senior.

The book's In Court Reports ask externs to connect chapter materials to the extern"s assigned court. Out of Court Reports focus on chapter materials, how they relate to each other, and on the questions they raise about judges and judicial processes.

Information about where federal lawyers work and how the government hires lawyers. Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of federal legal employment.

Advice from networking experts. How to apply networking in job searching, in the community, and in one’s profession.

40 attorneys on what it means to be a practicing lawyer with a disability and how to find opportunities for mentoring, networking, and professional change.

Manual for finding a satisfying job and achieving healthy life balance. Analysis of emerging employment trends that may affect your career choices.

Judges and practitioners share their stories and explain their perspectives on the values of the legal profession, work-life balance decisions, obligations to family and community.

Advice for dealing with job search obstacles such as your own attitudinal barriers, plus tips on identifying your hidden skills and uncovering the hidden legal job market.

Views of a legal careers expert on overcoming barriers and objections faced during a job search.

Career accounts narrated by women attorneys, from applying to the first clerking position to finding a job to balancing life and work.

Get the inside view on how law firms formulate their criteria for selecting new hires, and how they conduct their interviews.

How to handle aspects of career development such as maximizing the recruiter relationship, handling videoconference interviews, conducting appropriate follow-up to the interview, and surviving a career setback.

Explains how potential legal employers assess skills in job candidates. Tips on embracing your entrepreneurial spirit and developing differentiating competencies. Addresses both the audience with modest work experience and the one with substantial work experience.

Letters by successful women attorneys describe the lessons they’ve learned while creating and thriving in their own firms.

Applies behavioral science theory of decision-making to legal career development. Aimed at students and lawyers at various stages of their careers.

When, where and how to reach out to small firms. Why some core competencies are critical to getting hired.

Interviews with 50 solo practitioners at various points in their careers answering questions such as how they started, which business issues they must manage, and what they hope for in the future.

Written by a solo practitioner for students and lawyers. Describes the benefits, challenges, and satisfaction of solo practice. Recommendations on solo practice management and marketing.

Great resource that enables the reader to better understand the opportunities and obstacles that may be encountered as a lawyer explores becoming established as a solo practitioner. This book is not designed to sell the idea of solo practice. In fact, it may offer valuable information that makes one decide that solo practice is not the right choice. T

Identifies new employers for lawyers of the future and equips young lawyers with questions to ask prospective employers. Suggests solutions to major concerns, such as diminishing public funding. Explores alternative roles for future lawyers in a world increasingly dominated by IT.

The stories of many lawyers who have transitioned successfully into a different legal or quasi-legal career.

Advice on career decision-making aimed at the law student and recent graduate.

An overview of barriers faced by women attorneys and recommendations of appropriate responses to them. 101 women attorneys, who created their own firms, write letters describing their experiences and offering insights.

Survey answers to questions about whether women of color's work experiences in law firms surpass or fail expectations and why women of color change practice areas and organizations or leave the profession at an alarming rate.

Advice to women of color, students, and recent grads for achieving greatness, especially at large firms.

Essays on the pressing issues for all women advocates written by women lawyers and directed at women in school or practice.

More than 100 women attorneys respond to questions about how to identify the path leading to one's own career goals and how to deal with the challenges encountered by women.

How to Start a Law Practice focuses on virtually every area of starting a practice that new attorneys should think about. One of the areas of focus in the book is why young attorneys should think about starting their own practice, and why they should do it sooner than later. The book also addresses the myth that a job with a firm guarantees security. Other areas covered include finding an office, different types of offices, getting clients, managing clients, managing money, and dealing with stress. One unique chapter not found in any similar books deals with things law students are not taught in law school and will need to navigate the professional world. The book is both practical and useful for new attorneys thinking about starting their own practice and young attorneys wanting to learn about professionalism in the legal field.

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