Later-in-Life Lawyers (2nd Ed.): Tips for the Non-Traditional Law Student - Softcover

Cooper, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888960167 ISBN 13: 9781888960167

Publisher: The Fine Print Press, Ltd., 2012

Synopsis

Law schools are, by their nature, traditional in attitude and in structure.  Most books about law school take the same approach: they do not address the unique needs of the significant nontraditional segment of their student body.  Other law school books focus on largely irrelevant factors such as rankings and employment in “prestigious” law firms.  In short, even though a significant percentage of law students are nontraditional, there is little accurate, relevant material to help nontraditional students navigate the admissions process and ultimately succeed in law school.  And that’s where this focused guide steps in.  Its first edition is already established among nontraditional students. Its second edition will prove even more compelling.

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About the Author

Author, attorney, and university administrator, Charles Cooper is founder of nontradlaw.net, the primary website for nontraditional law students. Thane Messinger is an attorney, adjunct professor of business law, and author of The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide; Law School: Getting In, Getting Good, Getting the Gold; and Con Law: Avoiding...or Beating...the Scam of the Century (The Real Student's Guide to Law School and the Legal Profession).

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Second Edition: After months of thought, months of drafts, and months of redrafting, it’s obvious that the two main issues to be dealt with in this supplement—debt and jobs—are inseparable. This created a practical problem: writing is a linear process, and it must start somewhere. With these two issues so intertwined, however, there is no natural starting point; debt is important because of the very few traditional law jobs at present that can service the debt in a reliable, predictable, and sufficient manner, and the increasing reliance on massive debt to fund law school makes getting (and keeping) such a job more important than ever. A chicken-and-egg scenario, if you will. So forgive the arbitrary decision to start with a discussion of debt, before moving onto the job market. Please don’t take this as a signal that avoiding debt is more important than finding employment.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Fine Print Press, Ltd.
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888960167
• ISBN 13: 9781888960167
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 329