Download or read book Good Lawyer Bad Lawyer written by David Nuttall and published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of trails form the Vancouver courts, based on lawyer David Nuttal's 30 years of experiences working there.

Download or read book Bad Lawyer written by Anna Dorn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. It was a profession pushed on her by her parents, teachers, society... whatever. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a person; as Dorn says, law school was pretty "cushy" and mostly entailed wearing leggings every day to her classes at Berkeley and playing beer pong with her friends at night. The hardest part was imagining what it would be like to actually be a lawyer one day. But then she'd think of Glenn Close on Damages and Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, and hoped for the best. After graduation, however, Dorn realized that there was nothing sexy about being a lawyer. Between the unflattering suits, sucking up to old men, and spending her days sequestered in a soul-sucking cubicle, Dorn quickly learned that being a lawyer wasn't everything Hollywood made it out to be. Oh, and she sucked at it. Not because she wasn't smart enough, but because she couldn't get herself to care enough to play by the rules. Bad Lawyer is more than just a memoir of Dorn's experiences as a less-than-stellar lawyer; it's about the less-than-stellar legal reality that exists for all of us in this country, hidden just out of sight. It's about prosecutors lying and filing inane briefs that lack any semblance of logic or reason; it's about defense attorneys sworn to secrecy-until the drinks come out and the stories start flying; and it's about judges who drink in their chambers, sexually harass the younger clerks, and shop on eBay instead of listening to homicide testimony. More than anything, this book aims to counteract the fetishization of the law as a universe based entirely on logic and reason. Exposing everything from law school to law in the media, and drawing on Dorn's personal experiences as well as her journalistic research, Bad Lawyer ultimately provides us with a fresh perspective on our justice system and the people in it, and gives young lawyers advice going forward into the 21st century.

Download or read book The Good Lawyer written by Douglas O. Linder and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every lawyer wants to be a good lawyer. They want to do right by their clients, contribute to the professional community, become good colleagues, interact effectively with people of all persuasions, and choose the right cases. All of these skills and behaviors are important, but they spring from hard-to-identify foundational qualities necessary for good lawyering. After focusing for three years on getting high grades and sharpening analytical skills, far too many lawyers leave law school without a real sense of what it takes to be a good lawyer. In The Good Lawyer, Douglas O. Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of top-notch attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer. They outline and analyze several crucial qualities: courage, empathy, integrity, diligence, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism. Many qualities require apportionment in the right measure, and achieving the right balance is difficult. Lawyers need to know when to empathize and also when to detach; courage without an appreciation of consequences becomes recklessness; working too hard leads to exhaustion and mistakes. And what do you do in tricky situations, where the urge to deceive is high? How can you maintain focus through a mind-taxing (or mind-numbing) project? Every lawyer faces these problems at some point, but if properly recognized and approached, they can be overcome. It's not easy being good, but this engaging guide will serve as a handbook for any lawyer trying not only to figure out how to become a better--and, almost always, more fulfilled--lawyer.

Download or read book This Hallowed Ground written by Bruce Catton and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the American Civil War chronicles the entire war to preserve the Union - from the Northern point of view, but in terms of the men from both sides who lived and died in glory on the fields.

Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Download or read book The Good Lawyer written by Douglas O. Linder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Doug Linder and Nancy Levit combine evidence from the latest social science research with numerous engaging accounts of able attorneys at work to explain just what makes a good lawyer -- courage, empathy, integrity, realism, a strong sense of justice, clarity of purpose, and an ability to transcend emotionalism"--

Download or read book Bad Lawyer written by David Cray and published by Orion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sid Kaplan once had it all: a high-profile career in criminal law with fees to match - and enough arrogance to alienate practically everyone he knew. So no one wept for Sid Kaplan when booze and cocaine plummeted him into disrepute. But Sid has just been given one last chance - a big case that is certain to restore him to some of his old professional glory.Thelma Barrow, a housewife, has sought out Sid to defend her accused daughter, Priscilla. For Sid, the publicity more than compensates for the pittance Thelma can afford to pay, as the media describes headline stories of drugs and violence and the murderous motives of a white woman who has suffered abuse at the hands of her black husband. Nor is Sid put off by the fact that Priscilla - who happens to be a babe - is probably lying about more than a few details.But with drug dealers knocking on his door demanding payment and people turning up dead, the case becomes far more complex, and deadly, than anyone, especially Sid, ever imagined it could be.

Download or read book Layla the Lawyer written by Brittany Starr A Whittington and published by She Is Me, LLC.. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla the Lawyer is a bold, beautiful and a brilliant student at Justice Elementary School who helps her friends by solving disputes on the school playground. During lunch time everyone realizes that two of Marcel's cookies are missing. When Layla applies her lawyer skills, she knows exactly what to do. She takes everyone to the seesaw on the playground because thats where Justice happens. With her power pearls, starred blazer, notebook, and feather pen given to her by her grandmother, she is ready to solve the dispute. Help Layla find all the facts that will reveal who took Marcel's cookies. While you are helping Layla solve the case, look for new words that are actually used in a courtroom; lawyer lingo. Lastly be sure to Learn all of Layla's lessons: Analyze factsArrive at conclusionsAccept consequences Appreciate diversityAspire to new heightsApply Lawyer Lingo

Download or read book The Lawyer Bubble written by Steven J Harper and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 story—the 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, now, imperative. In The Lawyer Bubble, Steven J. Harper reveals how a culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation’s finest minds to the long-run implications of their actions. Law school deans have ceded independent judgment to flawed U.S. News & World Report rankings criteria in the quest to maximize immediate results. Senior partners in the nation’s large law firms have focused on current profits to enhance American Lawyer rankings and individual wealth at great cost to their institutions. Yet, wiser decisions—being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, eliminating the billable hour model, and more—can take the profession to a better place. A devastating indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal profession, this insider account is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how things went so wrong and how the profession can right itself once again.

Download or read book How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times written by Sharon D. Nelson and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weak economy and large number of firm layoffs have resulted in a flood of potential new solo and small firm lawyers starting their own practices in the wake of the exodus from BigLaw. Small practice lawyers, well seasoned or just starting out, can gain immeasurably by just applying even a few of the myriad tips within this book.

Download or read book The Good Lawyer written by Thomas Benigno and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY. A young, ambitious lawyer is eager to prove he is better than the father who abandoned him and worthy of the devoted mother who raised him beyond the siren call of the mobster dominated family he grew up in. Working as a Bronx Legal Aid Attorney he learns how to twist the system, how to become an unbeatable defense lawyer, and he his peacock proud of his perfect record-not a single conviction. But it's 1982. The Spiderman rapist is on the loose and New York City is a city in fear. When an outraged rape victim commits suicide right before his eyes, searching for absolution, he grabs the headline case of a teacher's aide accused of molesting three students. Armed with a firm belief in his client's innocence, he knocks the pegs out from under the prosecution's case. When one of the children turns up dead, he discovers that his client may be strangely connected to the Spiderman. Digging deeper, horrifying revelations about his family's past collide with the true identity of the sadistic sociopath behind the Spiderman's rampage. In the process, this good lawyer comes face-to-face with his greatest conflict and deepest fear: to win, really win-save the city and even the woman he loves-must he sacrifice every principle he believes in and embrace his family's mafia past to become judge, jury, and executioner?

Download or read book Bad Lawyer written by Anna Dorn and published by Legacy Lit. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law school was never Anna Dorn's dream. It was a profession pushed on her by her parents, teachers, society... whatever. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a person; as Dorn says, law school was pretty "cushy" and mostly entailed wearing leggings every day to her classes at Berkeley and playing beer pong with her friends at night. The hardest part was imagining what it would be like to actually be a lawyer one day. But then she'd think of Glenn Close on Damages and Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, and hoped for the best. After graduation, however, Dorn realized that there was nothing sexy about being a lawyer. Between the unflattering suits, sucking up to old men, and spending her days sequestered in a soul-sucking cubicle, Dorn quickly learned that being a lawyer wasn't everything Hollywood made it out to be. Oh, and she sucked at it. Not because she wasn't smart enough, but because she couldn't get herself to care enough to play by the rules. Bad Lawyer is more than just a memoir of Dorn's experiences as a less-than-stellar lawyer; it's about the less-than-stellar legal reality that exists for all of us in this country, hidden just out of sight. It's about prosecutors lying and filing inane briefs that lack any semblance of logic or reason; it's about defense attorneys sworn to secrecy-until the drinks come out and the stories start flying; and it's about judges who drink in their chambers, sexually harass the younger clerks, and shop on eBay instead of listening to homicide testimony. More than anything, this book aims to counteract the fetishization of the law as a universe based entirely on logic and reason. Exposing everything from law school to law in the media, and drawing on Dorn's personal experiences as well as her journalistic research, Bad Lawyer ultimately provides us with a fresh perspective on our justice system and the people in it, and gives young lawyers advice going forward into the 21st century.

Download or read book The Bad Lawyers Primer written by Vincent Scarsella and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEED HELP FINDING A GOOD LAWYER FOR YOUR CASE?NEED ADVICE DEALING WITH A BAD LAWYER YOU ALREADY HIRED?ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS CONCISE LITTLE BOOK JAM PACKED WITH INFORMATION ANY CLIENT OR PROSPECTIVE CLIENT NEEDS TO KNOW WHEN HIRING A LAWYER OR GETTING EVEN WITH A BAD ONE.IN THIS BOOK YOU'LL FIND:- A SERIES OF SURE FIRE STEPS GUARANTEED TO HELP YOU FIND A GOOD LAWYER FOR YOUR CASE.- THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOOD LAWYERING THAT GOOD LAWYERS FOLLOW AND BAD LAWYERS DON'T.- READILY AVAILABLE REMEDIES FOR GETTING EVEN WITH A BAD LAWYER THAT MAY HELP YOU OBTAIN JUSTICE AND EVEN MONETARY COMPENSATION FOR ANY LOSSES YOU MAY HAVE SUFFERED BECAUSE OF BAD LAWYERING. - A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS STATE SYSTEMS ESTABLISHED TO PUNISH BAD LAWYERS AND WHY AND HOW THOSE SYSTEMS SOMETIMES FAIL THE CONSUMER.AFTER READING THIS BOOK, CONSUMERS OF LEGAL SERVICES WILL BE CONFIDENT THAT A GOOD LAWYERS ARE OUT THERE TO HANDLE THEIR LEGAL PROBLEMS AND THAT THERE ARE REMEDIES AVAILABLE THAT CAN HELP THEM GET EVEN WITH BAD LAWYERS.DURING THE AUTHOR'S 18 YEARS AS HEAD OF AN AGENCY POLICING BAD LAWYERS, IN WHICH HE REVIEWED AND PROCESSED THOUSANDS OF LAWYER MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATIONSM, HE GAINED INVALUABLE AND UNIQUE INSIDE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT A LAWYER CAN AND SHOULD DO TO DEAL WITH BAD LAWYERING. THIS BOOK OFFERS THAT KNOWLEDGE TO HELP CLIENTS TAKE QUICK AND EFFECTIVE ACTION TO GET EVEN WITH A BAD LAWYER.THIS BOOK PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE BUT CONCISE REVIEW OF BAD LAWYERING AND WHAT THE CONSUMER CAN DO TO PREVENT AND DEAL WITH IT. WHILE WRITTEN FOR THE LAYMAN, THIS BOOK IS A VALUABLE ADDITION TO A PRACTICING LAWYER'S REFERENCE SHELF.

Download or read book A Young Lawyer s Story written by John Ellsworth and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your first job out of school will be to...spy on your boss. Welcome to the government.There is no job description and the job isn't advertised anywhere, not even on the Job Board at Georgetown Law. But Thaddeus Murfee just graduated from law school and has $200 left from his student loan. He is so broke he has to borrow his roommate's suit for the job interview. While he is so desperate to earn rent and food money, he fails to nail down exactly what it is he'll be doing. They tell him a U.S. Attorney is selling government secrets. But Thaddeus Murfee likes his new boss, the U.S. Attorney. Good things happen and gifts flow his way. What's not to like? The government lawyer even has a daughter he wants Thaddeus to meet. Were the people who hired him just totally wrong about the attorney selling government secrets? What proof do they actually have of this serious accusation? This thrilling collection of good-lawyers/bad-lawyers will keep you up late at night. Beware: you might show up late for work. But when you get to work you just might find everyone talking about this new, exciting romp through the backstreets of Washington, D.C. On one side, a new, innocent lawyer just out of school. On the other side, the full force and might of the U.S. government. Welcome aboard!Previously published as Thaddeus Murfee

Download or read book Bad Lawyer written by Anna Dorn and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of How to Murder Your Life, a young woman's witty memoir demystifying law school and lawyers through tales of her own badness, the badness of her peers, and the badness of the law in general"--

Download or read book Bad Lawyer written by Stephen Solomita and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTo keep his practice alive, a desperate lawyer takes a case defending a battered wife/divDIV Just seven years after he left law school, Sid Kaplan was one of New York’s top defense attorneys. With a glittering style and a hunger for competition, he was as fierce as they come. He was the go-to lawyer for Manhattan’s toughest, flashiest criminals—until his mother’s death wrecked his confidence. Suddenly, the only way to sustain his sixteen-hour days was a ceaseless stream of cocaine and scotch, a combination that ruined his life’s work in a matter of months./divDIV /divDIVHis only remaining employees are Caleb and Julia—a pair of ex-clients who don’t mind working for irregular pay. Sid’s latest bum case is Priscilla Sweet, a drug addict with priors, violent tendencies, and a dead husband whom she may or may not have killed in self-defense. She also has dangerous friends, which means that defending Prissy will make Sid famous again—either on the front page, or in the obituaries. /div

Download or read book The Lawyer s Myth written by Walter Bennett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers today are in a moral crisis. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power. In The Lawyer's Myth, Walter Bennett goes beyond the caricatures to explore the deeper causes of why lawyers are losing their profession and what it will take to bring it back. Bennett draws on his experience as a lawyer, judge, and law teacher, as well as upon oral histories of lawyers and judges, in his exploration of how and why the legal profession has lost its ennobling mythology. Effectively using examples from history, philosophy, psychology, mythology, and literature, Bennett shows that the loss of professionalism is more than merely the emergence of win-at-all-cost strategies and a scramble for personal wealth. It is something more profound—a loss of professional community and soul. Bennett identifies the old heroic myths of American lawyers and shows how they informed the values of professionalism through the middle of the last century. He shows why, in our more diverse society, those myths are inadequate guides for today's lawyers. And he also discusses the profession's agony over its trickster image and demonstrates how that archetype is not only a psychological reality, but a necessary component of a vibrant professional mythology for lawyers. At the heart of Bennett's eloquently written book is a call to reinvigorate the legal professional community. To do this, lawyers must revive their creative capacities and develop a meaningful, professional mythology—one based on a deeper understanding of professionalism and a broader, more compassionate ideal of justice.