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The Importance of Being Honest
Popular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest , an incisive analysis of how honesty and law play out in current affairs and historical events. Drawing on original work as well as op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared in the American Lawyer , the Chicago Tribune , and many other national publications, Lubet explores the complex aspects of honesty in the legal world.
The Importance of Being Honest is full of tales of questionable practices and poor behavior, chosen because negative examples are much richer, and often more remarkable, in their ultimate lessons. Wyatt Earp's shootout with Billy Clanton, Bill Clinton's disastrous decision to lie under oath, Oscar Wilde's self-destructive perjury in a 1896 libel trial, and the dubious resolution of Justice Scalia's duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney are only a few of the cases Lubet use to illustrate that law is a vague and boggy realm where truth, and falsehood, is seldom absolute. With his lively, insightful, and sometimes hilarious prose, Lubet takes readers on a tour of the law in our everyday lives, and forces us to rethink how we really feel about honesty and truth.
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Negotiating Justice
While many young people become lawyers for the big bucks, others are motivated by the pursuit of social justice, seeking to help people for whom legal services are financially, socially, or politically inaccessible. These progressive lawyers often bring a considerable degree of idealism to their work, and many leave the field due to insurmountable red tape and spiraling disillusionment. But what about those who stay? And what do their clients think? Negotiating Justice explores how progressive lawyers and their clients negotiate the dissonance between personal idealism and the realities of a system that doesn't often champion the rights of the poor.Corey S. Shdaimah draws on over fifty interviews with urban legal service lawyers and their clients to provide readers with a compelling behind-the-scenes look at how different notions of practice can present significant barriers for both clients and lawyers working with limited resources, often within a legal system that many view as fundamentally unequal or hostile. Through consideration of the central themes of progressive lawyering - autonomy, collaboration, transformation, and social change - Shdaimah presents a subtle and complex tableau of the concessions both lawyers and clients often have to make as they navigate the murky and resistant terrains of the legal system and their wider pursuits of justice and power.
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US International Lawyers in the Interwar Years
In the interwar years, a group of reform-minded American scholars of international law, such as Quincy Wright and Manley Hudson, challenged traditional international law and strove to establish a 'new' international law in which outlawry of war was institutionalized. They highly valued the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Kellogg–Briand Pact and presented legal arguments in support of them. These scholars were activists in their efforts to promote their views to policy makers and the public. In the US international law community, however, a different group of scholars, notably Edwin Borchard, vehemently opposed the progressive scholars. US International Lawyers in the Interwar Years chronicles those involved in the debate and provides a detailed account of their scholarly works and activities that hitherto have not had the recognition that they deserve.
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Design Your Law Practice
Design Your Law Practice: Using Design Thinking to Get Next Level Results is a one-stop resource to learn the basics of design thinking, gain insight into how design thinking principles have been successfully applied in the legal services sectors, and equip the reader to immediately apply different design thinking approaches to gain tangible improvements and increased lawyer and client happiness. The book introduces each of the key design thinking steps, with different expert contributors demonstrating how each step can be adapted to address challenges faced by lawyers, law firms and our justice systems. Design Your Law Practice also provides real, practical case studies of how design thinking has been successfully used in a range of law firm and legal services contexts. With action-oriented summaries and downloadable design tools, readers can take their learnings from off the page and into action.
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The Lawyer's Guide to Office Automation
When entering the legal profession, lawyers dream of advocacy, writing, and advice as daily tasks. Claim that dream by using automation to ease tasks on the business side. From intake, scheduling, invoicing, writing, and proofreading, this book gives you possibilities to start designing your dream.Clients value lawyers for their advice, advocacy, and written products. However, lawyers or their staff end up devoting time to manually creating invoices and welcome letters, negotiating calendars, inputting client data from intake forms, and typing and retyping basic client data into filings and correspondence. Between the possible mistakes and the probable burnout, manual work at the law office has its hazards.Automation has transformed the way we work and relate to one another. You deserve the freedom to not manually fill out order forms, write the same letters word for word, or recall basic client details before preparing for a meeting or hearing. Your clients, your employees, and your health will thank you.The Lawyer's Guide to Office Automation: Tools and Strategies to Improve Your Firm and Your Life outlines solutions to operational challenges such as drafting and revising common documents, creating invoices, and scheduling appointments. Create an intake system that supports you and your office, freeing you to deal with the reason you get paid, your advice, documents, and advocacy. The book also covers the ethical and cybersecurity concerns that automated law firms encounter. See the possibilities and jump start your plan to make your law office work smarter for you!
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