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Every attorney has the potential to take control of his or her
career and to build a sustaining book of business. Take Charge of
Your Legal Career: A Practical Business Development Workbook will
help you jump-start the process. This step-wise approach to finding
and keeping clients breaks down this often daunting activity into
manageable tasks that will yield benefits over the life of your
career. Through case studies, practical exercises, worksheets and
online tools, you'll cultivate the habits you need to identify
promising clients, ask for their business, and deftly manage client
relationships, while continuously developing new ones. The
Practical Business Development Workbook demystifies the business of
building business and helps you merge it seamlessly into everyday
practice at every stage of your career.
"Charles A. Shaw" grew up in a segregated African-American
neighborhood in St. Louis. His tight-knit community supported him,
and he was inspired to become first a teacher and then a lawyer.
From there, he worked his way up to federal prosecutor and state
judge before President Bill Clinton appointed him to the federal
bench.
Shaw quickly became dismayed by the inequality and severity of
mandatory U.S. sentencing guidelines and how they affected young
African-American men. Prosecutors opposed him at every turn as he
sought to impose fair sentences, but he never wavered in seeking to
promote equality and curb the destruction of African-American
families.
This insightful and at times humorous narrative demonstrates
Shaw's love for family, hard work, and God. Including an insider's
view of an often unjust legal system, tales of working alongside
some of the best legal minds in the country, and challenges to
prevailing concepts, "Watch Everything" offers a rare glimpse into
the professional life of an unconventional federal judge.
Johnson was very close to Swift in the difficulties he had to face
because of his poor health and difficult social positions. Both of
these tortured men were able to impose their names on the two
phases of 18th century life: The Age of Swift from 1700 to 1740 and
the Age of Johnson to 1789. Swift predominated in the age of satire
and Johnson in the age of biography and literary criticism.
First published in 1964, as the fourth edition of a 1940 original,
this book presents an account regarding law courts and the
administration of justice in England. In opposition to other more
clinical approaches to the subject, the text takes the view that
'The best introduction to law is a study of the institutions and
environment in which lawyers work.' Notes are incorporated
throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest
in British legal history and the administrative side of law.
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