What Can You Do With a Law Degree?: A Lawyers' Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside & Around the Law - Softcover

Arron, Deborah L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0940675463 ISBN 13: 9780940675469

Publisher: Niche Press, LLC, 1997

Synopsis

Do you know: how to tell if you're better suited to the law or to some other field? how to determine when to make the big break? how to analyze and overcome your barriers to change? how to transfer your legal skills to other professions? how to implement an effective job-finding campaign? You must be able to answer these five questions if you want to develop a satisfying, long-lasting career, in or beyond the law. Here's the best resource to help you. Whether you're a veteran practitioner or a new law grad, this expanded 4th edition of Deborah Arron's career guide for lawyers will challenge and provoke you, while preparing you to move into any of the following fields: ADR, Arts & Entertainment, Bar Association Management, Business, Communications, Consulting, Counseling, Education, Entrepreneurial Ventures, Environmental, Ethics, Foundations & Nonprofits, Government, Healthcare, Information Science, International, Labor Unions, Law Enforcement, Lobbying & Public Affairs, Private Law Practice, Real Estate, Sports, Technology and the Judiciary. The 4th edition includes more than 700 job and career suggestions, web addresses for over 1,000 resources, extensive self-assessment exercises, profiles of law school graduates who moved into popular fields and a new test to determine the right fit for you within the practice of law. With more than 50,000 copies of Arron's law career classic in print, you'll understand why the book has received rave views from critics, career counselors, lawyers and law students alike.

About this title

From the Author:

I am a former civil litigator and bar association leader who closed my law practice in 1985 to take a one-year sabbatical, and never returned. Since then, I've studied, consulted with and talked to thousands of lawyers nationwide to learn what separates those who create satisfying and successful careers in or beyond the law from those who remain unemployed, underemployed or unhappily employed. This book shares their secrets. You won't find any easy answers or quick career fixes in What Can You Do with a Law Degree? What you will get is a pragmatic approach to career development, and a multitude of career-building techniques, that have been successfully tested by thousands of lawyers and law students. You may be facing unemployment or retirement, or graduating from law school with no clear career path ahead of you. You may be wondering if you want to return from parental leave or whether part-time work is the answer. You may be restless and bored, hate your job or your work, feel underpaid or unappreciated, or be too burned out to drag yourself to the office each morning. No matter where you are, if you're the kind of person who can get into law school, get through law school, pass the bar or practice law, you're among the cream of the crop of American workers. You're analytical, intelligent, motivated, responsible, the kind of person who achieves the goals you set for yourself. And that's the key. You can't get very far if you don't have a meaningful goal. What Can You Do with a Law Degree? will help you find it.

About the Author:

Author/lawyer Deborah Arron was the first to write and speak openly about career alternatives for lawyers. A Seattle civil litigator and bar leader for 10 years, Ms. Arron left her practice and set out to discover why she and so many lawyers were unhappy with their career. From that research came her first book -- Running From the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession. The book broke the code of silence about lawyer dissatisfaction, and launched Arron's second career as an author and national public speaker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Niche Press, LLC
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0940675463
• ISBN 13: 9780940675469
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 373