Just out from my friend, colleague, and fellow torts prof
Andrew McClurg and co-authors, legal writing prof
Christine Coughlin and torts prof
Nancy Levit:
Law Jobs: The Complete Career Guide. Here is the publisher's description:
Choosing a legal career that fits a student’s personality, skillset, and
aspirations is the most important and difficult decision a law student
faces, yet only a small number of law schools incorporate
career-planning into their curriculums. Law Jobs: The Complete Guide seeks to fill the gap. Written by three award-winning professors, Law Jobs
is a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide to every type of legal
career. Packed with authoritative research and featuring comments from
more than 150 lawyers who do the jobs, Law Jobs offers in-depth
exploration of each career option, including general background, pros
and cons, day in the life descriptions, job availability, compensation,
prospects for advancement, diversity, and how students can best position
themselves for opportunities in the field. Covered jobs include:
- Large and Medium-Sized Law Firms
- Small Firms and Solo Practitioners
- In-House and Other Corporate Counsel
- Government Agency Lawyers
- Non-Governmental Public Interest Law
- Prosecutors and Public Defenders
- Private Criminal Defense
- JD Advantage Jobs
- Contract (Freelance) Lawyering
- Judges, Mediators, and Arbitrators
- Judicial Law Clerks
- Legal Academic Jobs
Other
chapters address lawyer happiness, the rapidly changing face of the
legal profession due to technology and other forces, the division
between litigation and transactional law, and the top-50 legal specialty
areas.
Together, the authors have received more than thirty
awards for teaching and research, and have written extensively about law
students and lawyers in books such as 1L of a Ride (McClurg), A Lawyer Writes (Coughlin), and The Happy Lawyer (Levit).
