Career & Practice Guide: Practice Areas

Practice Perspectives: Vault's Guide to Legal Practice Areas is the insider's guide to what it's really like to practice at the nation's top law firms. This guide contains interviews with more than 100 attorneys from top-ranked practices across 47 law firms. Among the topics covered in these Q&As are typical tasks, notable clients, the best and most challenging aspects of working in the specific practice areas, and the misconceptions about each specialty. Practice Perspectives offers insights on practicing in 25 different practice areas.

Much has changed in the fashion industry since the end of World War II to require more highly developed legal skills and, happily, a much greater allocation to legal expense. The industry is entirely global and a surprisingly large number of members have grown into mega multi-nationals, with large in-house legal departments and brand-name law firms to match the power of their own brand names. Explore the glamour and grit of the fashion world in this fun look at the stories behind the dresses, sunglasses, perfumes, and handbags.

Philadelphia Lawyer M. Kelly Tillery uses wit, wisdom and history to eviscerate the high and mighty and empower the downtrodden in a collection of enlightening and entertaining essays about life, law and politics. Whether it is the legal system, the legal profession, politicians or institutions, none escape Tillery's withering and poignant barbs.

With this product, you'll get an inside look at what it's like to practice law in 30 major specialty areas, including appellate practice, entertainment, immigration, international, tax, and telecommunications. This book gives you the insights and expertise of top practitioners-the issues they tackle every day, the people and clients they work with, what they find rewarding about their work, and what classes or work experience you need to follow in their footsteps. Over 120 government, public interest, corporate, and private attorneys are featured. For additional career resources, visit the AttorneyJobs Web site.

This book is an essential resource for law students and lawyers interested in a career in administrative law. In the first half of the book, a national expert describes the field, and outlines your optimal entry strategies. The second half offers individual, personalized examples of the various career paths in administrative law, and details the demands and rewards of each.

Finding Success in the US Government Job Market.

It's a "must-have" career book on finding, securing, and thriving in the fiercely competitive in-house legal market. It's a complete guide through the maze of potential job-hunting strategies, dispelling the myths about corporate life, and offering the reader an arsenal of tips, skills, and methods for creating a successful corporate career.

This succinct paperback will fill a major information void for students and recent graduates who are interested in a legal career outside the typical large, corporate law firm. Beyond the Big Firm offers more than 30 compelling profiles of lawyers who have chosen to follow nontraditional legal careers, in a wide range of subject areas, practice settings, and types of work. This distinctive book explores the many possibilities open to law school graduates interested in "alternative" career choices. the editors of this engaging compilation are long-time public interest lawyers; the actual authors of the profiles are primarily students who capture the personalities of the subjects in a way that is sure to resonate with the audience because they share the same questions about career choices the subjects of the profiles have been out of law school 10-15 years, they represent 18 law schools, and they work in 15 states the lawyers profiled have jobs in governments, nonprofits, and small private firms; both civil and criminal law practice are covered, including prosecutors and defense counsel some of the fields that the lawyers work in include civil rights, civil liberties, immigration, personal injury, and human rights In addition to the fascinating profiles, special features include: a special resources chapter to help students determine and follow their career choice a final chapter with mini-profiles of 3 lawyers who are not practicing law, but for whom their legal training is vital to their work short essays by current and former Stanford Law School deans Larry Kramer and Kathleen Sullivan.

Beginning and building a real estate law practice offers many advantages: the underlying law changes relatively slowly while offering a satisfying opportunity to develop a base of steady clients and professional relationships. Written by a veteran real estate law attorney, How to Build a Real Estate Law Practice offers useful and essential guidance, whether you are in your first years of practice and are just starting to focus on real estate as a legal practice, or if you ve already started in the area. Author Dean Alterman shares pointers that you can incorporate into your daily practice as well as for your long-term business plan. Real estate law offers a broad range of specialties, some that lead to the courtroom and others more suited to a desk in an office. Whatever area of real estate law that you practice in, you ll find practice-focused advice that s tailored specifically to the needs of a real estate lawyer. Topics include: How to define your practice Law practice financials: banking and budgeting Law practice management: setting up an office, from location to equipment and staff Finding clients and networking Engagement letters How (and when) to turn down work Setting and collecting fees for your work Communicating with clients and how to best use boilerplate language and forms Doing business with clients, from referrals to conflicts between them Growing your practice and the opposite, how to transition a practice and plan for retirement.

The American Bar Association Section of Taxation is pleased to announce the release of Careers in Tax Law: Perspectives on the Tax Profession and What It Holds for You. Designed for those considering or beginning a career in tax law, this informative guide presents a series of offerings autobiographies in miniature by a broad cross section of working tax professionals. Each contribution stands as a unique story of paths taken, choices made, and lessons learned. Each adds to a composite portrait of the profession and its possibilities for the next generation of tax lawyers. In essays divided thematically, over 75 tax professionals share their unique perspectives, knowledge, and experiences. Nowhere else will you find such an honest and entertaining portrayal of the tax profession and what it holds for you.

Attorneys can no longer ignore the power of public relations and marketing. This straight forward and practical guide covers everything that seasoned, new lawyers, and law school students alike need to know about promoting themselves, their law firms and their practices. Everyday Public Relations for Lawyers provides hands-on advice on all aspects of public relations, from the dos and don'ts of media relations to controlling your message to harnessing the power of the Internet, including Web 2.0. From GoogleMaps and Craigslist, to wikis and blogging, this book has it all. Start your PR journey by walking through the strategic planning process. Learn how to establish ethical and measurable public relations goals and objectives, define how you want to be perceived, identify your key messages, and determine your target audiences. Once the basics of your plan are in place, learn how to put the media to work for you, how to plan for and manage media interviews and how to write media.

Provocative true cases that explore the intersection of our most intimate relationships and the law--and offer a window into how we define a family today. A woman seeking a divorce has no idea of the family finances--her husband doled out money only after she gave him requisition slips for her intended purchases. A lesbian couple wants to include their sperm donor in their child's life--the sperm donor is the brother of one partner, so he will be the biological father as well as the child's uncle. These are the clients who come knocking on family lawyer Margaret Klaw's door, hoping for resolution.

Considering the large number of intellectual property cases that settle and the financial and business risks thereby avoided, specialized knowledge and experience in ADR is a must. This state-of-the-art compendium provides a single resource to the strategies, skills and practical expertise necessary to apply ADR in the simplest to most complex IP case. Intended as a practical resource for lawyers and business executives who need the understand alternative processes to litigation and how they can be used, this book offers collected wisdom from current or former jurists, neutrals, clients, professors, trial and transactional attorneys, and in-house counsel. With this wide-ranging expertise, the chapter authors consider all relevant perspectives in the ADR process: the attorney, the client, and the neutral. Following an overview of the practical uses of ADR in IP cases, authors focus on specific elements of employing ADR in the intellectual property legal arena, including issues related to drafting, early case assessment, mediation, use of a special master, mediating patent cases in the Federal Circuit s mediation program, and the strategic use of the U.S. International Trade Commission for enforcing and resolving IP disputes.

As the legal process becomes more complex and specialized – and as the need to generate firm income creates greater pressure to bill hours, settle cases, and do deals – the training of tomorrow's trial lawyers is fading in importance. In response, veteran California trial lawyer Martin Grayson has written The View From the First Chair, a detailed and insightful work into the litigation process, and the legal and psychological art of the lawsuit.

This new book, A Legal Guide to Doing Business in South America, discusses the legal environment of 10 major countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

In this practical, comprehensive handbook, Hauwa Ibrahim, who came to the international prominence as a successful lawyer and human rights advocate, shares the insights and experiences gained through many proceeding while seeking justice for clients in Shariah courts. Lawyers who practice in Shariah courts will discover essential steps for using complexities of the law and culture to successfully defend clients. Learn from one of the leading practitioners in the world, as she describe seven general strategies for representing clients in Shariah courts:
Understand the dynamic of Shariah
Pay attention to details and seek a creative approach
Focus on the law and the issues
Be firm and flexible
Play to your strength, emphasizing the letter and intent of the law
Plan a defense using both case law and Shariah principles
Think globally and act locally-use international human rights treaties and instruments to bolster local laws and national constitutions

Ibrahim has also compiled and included an invaluable resource: a Compendium of Shariah-related laws, constitution and treaties, religious authorities, case decision, and more.

Irrespective of your age, experience, nationality, residence, education or practice area, this new edition is a valuable guide for law students and lawyers interested in finding, maintaining, or moving into a career in international law. The book provides new insight into how to use your imagination, creativity, and savvy to find that elusive job in the field of international law including the scope of possibilities in specialties such as litigation, trade, corporate, transactional, banking, financial, and maritime law, as well as positions in teaching, going in-house, and pro bono work. Providing dynamic tips and strategies, as well as perspectives and methodology for success, the book includes guidance on: -How to prepare for a career in international law; -The road to an international in-house legal career; -Going from solo practitioner to international lawyer; -Using the Internet to develop a small-firm international law practice; -Networking effectively; -Creative strategies for launching and growing your international law practice; and -Much more