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Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler members Andrew Radding and Jerald B. Lurie work together even away from their firm. Radding is stepping down as founding president of the Simon E. Sobeloff Law Society’s Baltimore chapter, and Lurie will succeed him. The Maryland State Bar Association recently reappointed Radding as Program Committee co-chair, while Lurie was [...]
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Divorce Lawyers at Work $49.98 How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law? This book explores that question through an extensive empirical study of lawyers practicing divorce law in New England. The authors emphasize the importance of "collegial control" in shaping lawyers’ decisions and identify a variety of "communities of practice" that serve as key agents of that control. Offering a new understanding of the nature of lawyers’ work in divorce law as well as a new perspective on legal professionalism, this book is required reading for scholars, students, and practitioners.

Dancing With Lawyers $3.98 Dancing with Lawyers covers choosing a lawyer or law firm, hiring a lawyer, negotiating the bill up front, preventing high legal bills, following up to make sure the job is finished on time, and – if necessary – firing your lawyer. Over the past 20 years the author has dealt with hundreds of lawyers of all types, including real estate, small business, corporate, copyright, trademark, divorce, and tax lawyers. Distilled from that experience, Dancing with Lawyers focuses on getting the best work for the least money with a business-like, non-confrontational attitude, simultaneously forewarning of the most common ways a lawyer can go astray.

Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients $9.48 Based on in-person observations of lawyer-client interactions in divorce, this new work provides a unique perspective on the dynamics of professionalism. It charts the complicated and shifting ways lawyers and clients "negotiate" their relationship as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. It suggests that both lawyers and their clients are able to draw on resources of power to set the agenda of their interaction, but that neither one is in charge. Rather, power shifts between the two parties and is hard to achieve. Power, where it is achieved, is found in the ability to have one’s understandings of the social and legal worlds of divorce accepted. Power then works through the creation of shared meanings. Divorce Lawyers and their Clients examines the effort to create such shared meanings about the nature of marriage and why marriages fail, the nature of the legal process, and the best way to resolve divorce. It will be revelatory reading for law professors, lawyers, judges, and scholars of law and society.

Lawyers $80.71 The popular South Korean mini-series LAWYERS offers a breezily entertaining soap opera of personal and professional rivalry. Heartbroken over her failed engagement to lawyer Suk-ki (Sung-soo Kim), Joon-hee (Hye-young Jung) takes a job at another law firm, where she falls in love with her boss, Jung-ho (Sang-kyung Kim). A love triangle ensues when Suk-ki joins the same firm and competes with Jung-ho for a high-profile case–and Joon-hee’s heart. Amply displaying the strong acting, gripping storylines, and well-drawn characters for which K-dramas have become known, the sudsy mini-series is presented in its entirety with this collection of 16 episodes.

Tournament of Lawyers: The Transformation of the Big Law Firm $21.11 Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation’s top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm’s organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive–the race to win the promotion-to-partner tournament. This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms. –Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal

Divorce Lawyers at Work : Varieties of Professionalism in Practice $22.99 How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law? This book explores that question through an extensive empirical study of lawyers practicing divorce law in New England. The authors emphasize the importance of “collegial control” inshaping lawyers’ decisions and identify a variety of “communities of practice” that serve as key agents of that control.Offering a new understanding of the nature of lawyers’ work in divorce law as well as a new perspective on legal professionalism, this book is required reading for scholars, students, and practitioners.

Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice $126.65 How do lawyers think about and make the important decisions that constitute the day-to-day practice of law? This book explores that question through an extensive empirical study of lawyers practicing divorce law in New England. The authors emphasize the importance of collegial control in shaping lawyers” decisions and identify a variety of communities of practice that serve as key agents of that control.Offering a new understanding of the nature of lawyers” work in divorce law as well as a new perspective on legal professionalism, this book is required reading for scholars, students, and practitioners.

Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process $52.77 Each year more than 2 million Americans get divorced, and most of them use a lawyer. In closed-door conversations between lawyers and their clients strategy is planned, tactics are devised, and the emotional climate of the divorce is established. Do lawyers contribute to the pain and emotionaldifficulty of divorce by escalating demands and encouraging unreasonable behavior? Do they take advantage of clients at a time of emotional difficulty? Can and should clients trust their lawyers to look out for their welfare and advance their long-term interests?Austin Sarat and William L. F. Felstiner’s new book, based on a pioneering and intensive study of actual conferences between divorce lawyers and their clients, provides an unprecedented behind-the-scenes description of the lawyer-client relationship, and calls into question much of the conventionalwisdom about what divorce lawyers actually do. Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients suggests that most divorces are marked less by a pattern of aggressive advocacy than by one of inaction and drift. It uncovers reasons why lawyers find divorce practice frustrating and difficult and why clientsfrequently feel dissatisfied with their lawyers. This new work provides a unique perspective on the dynamics of professionalism. It charts the complex and shifting ways lawyers and clients negotiate their relationship as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce.Sarat and Felstiner show how both lawyers and clients are able to draw on resources of power to set the agenda of their interaction, while neither one is fully in charge. Rather, power shifts between the two parties; where it is achieved, power is found in the ability tohave one’s understandings ofthe social and legal worlds of divorce accepted. Power then works through the creation of shared meanings. Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients examines the effort to create such shared meanings about the nature of marriage and why marriages fail, the operation of the legal process, and the best way tobring divorces to closure. It will be fascinating reading for anyone who is going through a divorce, or has gone through one, as well as for lawyers, judges, and scholars of law and society.

Managing a Law Firm, 2010 Ed.: Leading Lawyers on Understanding the Impact of the Economic Crisis, Identifying and Developing Growth Objectives, and $105.56 Managing a Law Firm, 2010 Ed.: Leading Lawyers on Understanding the Impact of the Economic Crisis, Identifying and Developing Growth Objectives, and

Firm $9.84 Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this fast-paced legal thriller based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel. Lured by extraordinary financial perks, Mitch McDeere, a young and hungry Harvard Law student, turns down offers at the top law firms to take a position at a small but wealthy Memphis firm. Mitch, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks fueled by ambition and greed, ignores his wife Abby’s initial misgivings about the suspiciously paternalistic practices of his new employers. It’s only when two of his fellow lawyers die in a mysterious accident that Mitch begins to share her apprehensions. He then launches an investigation into the true nature of the firm and discovers that it is a front for a complex and sinister web of organized crime, one from which no lawyer has managed to escape alive. Solid storytelling and fine performances bring this seemingly improbable situation straight into reality. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.

Advanced Law Firm Mismanagement $3.48 With humor in the tradition of Robert Benchley and S. J. Perelman, this book reveals the absurdities of life in a law firm. Through memos, speeches, and committee meetings, the mythically inept firm of Fairweather, Winters & Sommers is described. In "Advanced Law Firm Mismanagement," the firm’s founder, Stanley Fairweather, recalls the good—and not-so-good—old days and looks ahead with a bit of trepidation at where the profession is going. In "The Ins & Outs of Law Firm Mismanagement," lawyers are seen through the eyes of the firm’s non-lawyers—secretaries, paralegals, the computer tech—who know better than anyone else how ridiculous lawyers can be. In "Was That a Tax Lawyer Who Just Flew Over?" the lawyers are described from the perspectives of their clients and other outsiders.

Divorce Lawyers $7.99 Divorce Lawyers tells you what you must know: how the legal system works, and what to expect from it.Through ten revealing case studies, you’ll learn about the experiences of people like your self, and about the pitfalls and minefields of divorcee court.You’ll get lessons form the top lawyers in the field on how to navigate the system with less trauma and financial strain.Here are the key issues: property rights, child custody and support, relocation, abuse, stepparent rights, and more.And, in her chapter “Hiring a Divorce Lawyer,” author Emily Couric outlines the challenge of one of the most important decisions you’ll every have to make.SC 398 pages.

Managing The Modern Law Firm $99 Featuring contributions from both legal practitioners and management researchers, Managing the Modern Law Firm seeks to present the latest insights from Management Studies in an approachable, practical, and relevant manner for lawyers involved directly and indirectly with the management of law firms.

Tournament of Lawyers $10.98 Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation’s top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm’s organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive–the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing."Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms."–Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal

Straight Talk about South Carolina Divorce Law $15.48 Straight Talk about South Carolina Divorce Law is a clear and detailed guide to how divorce and family law cases are actually handled and resolved in South Carolina. It is a practical and realistic overview of how lawyers, experts and mediators operate, and how Family Court judges decide what happens in divorce, custody and matrimonial cases.