• 5 Books on Becoming an Attorney

    Law Legal 05.02.2011 Comments Off

    Aristotle proclaimed that, “The law is reason free of passion”, and becoming a lawyer has been the career destination for young people from all walks of life for centuries. It is no accident that most of the major political leaders over the last 300 years had their academic and professional grounding in the law – George Washington may have been the first President, however the trend for lawyers to be selected as the nation’s leader is clear – John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison (who studied law but never passed the bar) and the list continues.

    Becoming a lawyer is rightly viewed as a stepping stone to a successful and wealthy future or as a springboard into many other careers in politics and public service and commerce, both at home and overseas. The practice and application of law permeates every facet of society and no lawyer specialized in all of the law – so how do you choose the right path for you?

    Becoming a Lawyer: A Humanistic Perspective on Legal Education and Professionalism
    By Elizabeth Dvorkin

    Many are attracted to the practice of law because they see an opportunity to contribute to creating a more fair and just society. The civil rights movement transformed American society, but it was the lawyers who worked in and out of the courts who allowed reforms to go forward.

    This book uses most of the enclosed chapters to discuss and explore humanistic issues which are followed by commentaries from numerous lawyers to espouse their views on what it means to be a lawyer in the context of the issues raised by that chapter. This book also covers how taking a humanistic approach in career choice and throughout a lawyers legal education, will improve the reputation of the profession, of individual lawyers and for society as a whole.

    Law School Confidential (Revised Edition): A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience: By Students, for Students
    By Robert H. Miller

    What is it really like during those three hard years of law school? This book answers many of the questions a potential law school candidate will have on what is actually happening at a variety of law schools around the country. How important is it to find and experience legal work through internships? What can you expect from your first days in law school? What are the real-life experiences of law school undergraduates as they go through three years of highly intense study? What attributes does a prospective candidate need to get through law school?

    For all of these issues and much more, this is a great source of real-life information and advice.

    Careers in Law
    By Gary Munneke

    This book is aimed at those thinking of attending law school, law school undergraduates and new lawyers looking for career guidance and advice. What marks this book out is how it deals with specific areas of the legal profession and its coverage of the career avenues within them.

    Different fields of the law and its application require different specialist experience and training, and this book outlines how you can tailor your own law school experience to place you in the best position for admittance to your preferred field. There is also excellent coverage of the professional and personal demands which are placed on lawyers working in specific fields both within the profession and out in commerce, industry and public service.

    The Lure of the Law: Why People Become Lawyers, and What the Profession Does to Them
    By Richard Moll

    This is written and published in the early 1990′s and is based on the author’s experience as the Dean of Admissions at a leading law school. In some respects it is dated and the commentary is not that of a lawyer himself, but in some respects this helps. People who wish to follow the law as a career do so for a variety of reasons, but how many lawyers actually find they have achieved what they initially set out to do? How many lawyers are actually happy with their career after years building their reputation and achieving their positions? Does the practice of law change you as a person, and if so, is this for the better?

    A thought provoking commentary on lawyers and the legal careers which ought to be made required reading before admission to law school.

    Becoming a Trial Lawyer
    By Steven Grossman

    For those embarking on a legal career, most aspire to becoming one of the legal ninjas of the profession – a trial lawyer.

    Trial lawyers are intellectual mercenaries who operate in the most charged and frightening environment – the court, but this volume demonstrates the amount of preparation and time spent outside of court that goes into creating a reputation as a successful trial court lawyer.

    This is an essential book for those seriously contemplating a career in the courtroom and covers advocacy skills, courtroom situations and tactics, deposition taking skills, the increasing role of courtroom technology and much more.
    By Lawrence Reaves

  • New Book Offers a Kinder, Gentler Divorce For Everyone Involved

    Law Legal 30.01.2011 Comments Off

    “Graceful Divorce Solutions” by Marcy Jones fulfills its subtitle’s promise to save you “Time, Money, and Your Sanity.” As a lawyer, Jones realized the need for people to understand their options when divorcing, and for lawyers to understand the emotional components of a divorce. Jones decided to practice family law so she could look for ways to fix a broken legal system not created for or conducive to dealing with family issues.

    Jones thoroughly explains why the legal system should not be involved in most divorce cases, including that law was designed for criminal issues and to settle disputes between people who had done business together but who would not have long-term relationships afterward. By contrast, when two spouses divorce who have children, they remain a family and need to communicate with each other on a regular basis. The legal system’s way of turning a husband and wife against each other is not conducive to ongoing communication between the couple after the divorce, and especially not beneficial to the children’s welfare.

    Jones became a practitioner of family law in hopes to find a better way for families to go through divorce. Following her own divorce, Jones went back to school to become a lawyer. While initially, she didn’t know what legal difference she could make, she realized her goals should be two-fold, namely to:

    • first, change the way lawyers think about and handle divorces
    • second, get honest, reliable information to the clients about their options so they can be actively involved in their own divorce process

    When Jones heard about collaborative divorce, she thought she had found her answer. This process allows for a couple to divorce without having to go to court while their lawyers work with them, rather than against one another, to bring about a settlement that both parties find acceptable. When Jones discussed this new process with her legal coworkers, however, she found resistance from them:

    When I went to the senior partner at the firm I was in at the time to ask whether I could go to a two-day basic training in collaborative practice, he looked at the information and responded, “This isn’t practicing law.” In his mind, if you weren’t preparing to go to court, you weren’t practicing law. If you weren’t preparing for court, then you must be afraid to go to court and fight the fight, which is, after all, what lawyers are trained to do!

    Precisely because lawyers are taught to fight in court, a procedure that can result in spouses turning against each other and children being caught in the middle, Jones was determined to seek a different approach. Despite opposition from colleagues, she has gone on to practice collaborative divorce successfully with her clients. Jones feels the clincher that makes the collaborative divorce process most effective is that “the couple agreed from the outset not to go to court. When the threat of ‘going to court’ is taken out of the picture, it changes the whole dynamic.”

    Jones realizes not all marriages can end peacefully with a collaborative divorce, although many can with cooperation from both spouses. Jones discusses, therefore, the different available divorce processes-litigation, lawyer/lawyer negotiation, mediation, Do It Yourself, and collaborative divorce-so her readers can make an informed decision about which option is right for them. She also goes into detail about the different aspects of divorce, clarifying that a couple really must go through four divorces: legal, financial, social, and emotional.

    The difference with collaborative divorce, or any of the processes other than litigation, is that the matter can be settled peacefully outside of court and the couple can follow its own agenda rather than that of family members, lawyers, or a court docket.

    With the collaborative process, a collaborative divorce team can be assembled to consist of two lawyers, one or two divorce coaches, a child specialist, and a financial specialist, and still be more cost effective than conventional divorce methods. Such divorces can often be settled within a half dozen or less meetings by the collaborative divorce team, and Jones has personally seen both spouses leave happily and thank both lawyers for their ability to compromise and focus on what will be best for all the family members involved.

    Admittedly, lawyers have a bad name, but Marcy Jones has written a book that redeems many of them by showing that lawyers can care about people rather than just fighting with each other and billing their clients for their time. At the end of “Graceful Divorce Solutions,” Jones shows her first thought is for the client, even at the risk of lost book sales, because she asks readers to pass the book on to others so they can also learn about and benefit from collaborative divorce.

    She hopes she has done her small part to bring about resolution rather than conflict when a marriage must end, and by extension, to help people find peaceful and even satisfying solutions to their problems, not only when divorcing but in any of life’s conflicts. Marcy Jones and the Collaborative Divorce process serve as models for what life can be when we seek resolution rather than conflict.By Tyler Tichelaar

  • Investing Your Money to the Right Mats

    general 28.01.2011 Comments Off

    If you want to invest your money, sometimes you are straight to think about buying a house, a land, gold, and many more. Meanwhile, infestation could be done in many forms. You may see your daily activities as a common activity; meanwhile actually those activities are the key of the great infestation. Take a look at your rarely touched car. You might prefer to ride your motorcycle than driving the car recently.

    Such tendency could bring a bad impact on the rarely maintained car. You might feel lazy to use the car due to the number of broken part in it. So, to raise your love to your car, you better have some modifications. It does not have to be that excessive .You better concentrate on modifying the crucial parts first, such as floor mats.

    You might be wondering about the connection of modification and investment? Well of course, it does not have a direct connection, but if you are not changing your mats into the newest carpet floor mats, you might not want to drive it anymore, and somehow it will be broken slowly but sure. Such car could also turns like human. So, if you would like to keep it well, maintain it well, somehow the car will never get troubled.

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