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Career Resources Guide

This is a guide to career resources available from the Charleston School of Law library, the Department of Career Services, and online. The Department of Career Services provides resources such as the job listings available through Symplicity

This Guide Covers the Following Career Resource Material

Practice Basics

  • 100 Plus Pointers for New Lawyers on Adjusting to Your Job by Sharon Melt Abrahams
    KF300 .A75 2012
     
  • The 101 Practice Series: Breaking Down the Basics by American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
    KF297 .A76 2008

  • 1000 Days to the Bar, But the Practice of Law Begins Now by Dennis J. Tonsing
    KF272 .T66 2010

  • Advocacy to Zealousness: Learning Lawyering Skills from Classic Films by Kelly Lynn Anders
    KF300 .A754 2012
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    Addressing a Client's Litigation Issues: Leading Lawyers on Educating Clients, Managing Expectations, and Developing a Case Strategy
     KF311 .A93 2008
     

  • The Art of Practicing Law: Talking to Clients, Colleagues and Others by James M. Kramon
    KF300 .K73 2012
     

  • The Articulate Attorney: Public Speaking for Corporate Lawyers by Brian K. Johnson
    Car. Serv. K181.J64 2009
     
  • Civil Interviewing and Investigation : For Paralegals by Cynthia Bandars Schroeder
    KF311.Z9 S37 1999
     

  • Complete Advocate: A Practice File for Representing Clients from Beginning to End by A.C. Harmon
    KF300 .H37 2010

 


  • The Complete Guide to Contract Lawyering: What Every Law Firm and Lawyer Needs to Know About Temporary Legal Services by Deborah Arron
    Car. Serv. KF315 .A97 2004
  • Comprehensive Law Practice: Law as a Healing Profession by Susan Swaim Dicoff
    KF9084 .D35 2011

  • The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law by Mark Hermann
    KF300 .H47 2006
     
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    The Education of a Lawyer: Essential Skills and Uncommon Advice for Building a Successful Career byGary Muldoon
    KF300 .M85 2014

  • Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing,     Counseling, Negotiation, and Persuasive Fact Analysis by Stefan Krieger
    KF300 .E84 2015
     
  • From Finals to the Firm: The Top Ten Things New Law Firm Associates Should Know Including a Bonus Chapter Exclusively for Summer Associates by Calvin Gladney
    KF300 .G55 2009
     
  • From Law School to Lawyer: Tools, Procedures, and Steps to Grow Your Practice by Jonathan D. McDowell
    KF300 .M38 2015
     
  • Hot Tips for the Solo or Small Firm Practitioner by the South Carolina Bar Continuing
    Legal Education Division
    SC KF318 .S65 2010
     

  • Interviewing and Investigating: Essential Skills for the
    Legal Professional by Stephen P. Parsons
    KF311 .P37 2010
  • An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer's Role by James E. Moliterno
    KF272 .M64 2010

  • Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell by Kenny Hegland
    KF273 .H4 2008
  • Law Office Procedures Manual for Solos and Small Firms by Demetrius Demetriou
    KF318 .D56 2005
     
  • Lawyer and client [electronic resource]: their relation, rights, and duties by William Allen Butler              HeinOnline KF311 .B88 1871
     

  • Lawyerlife: Finding a Life and a Higher Calling in
    the Practice of Law by Carl Horn
    KF297 .H67 2003
  • The Lawyer's Practice: A Context and Practice Case File by Kris Franklin
    KF300 .F69 2011
  • Lawyers as Counselors: A Client Centered Approach by David A. Binder
    KF311 .B52 2004

  • Lawyers and Clients: Critical Issues in Interviewing and Counseling by Stephen Ellman
    KF311 .L38 2009
  • Lawyers as Peacemakers : Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law by J. Kim Wright.
    KF311 .W75 2010
     
  • Learn Six Sigma for Law Firms by Catherine Alman MacDonagh
    KF318 .M334 2014
     
  • Learning from Practice: A Professional Development Text for Legal Externs by J.P. Ogilvy
    KF300 .O38 2007
     
  • Legal interviewing [videorecording​] : a video workshop by Alan M. Lerner, Augie Hermann, Bruce Bellingham.                                                
    AV KF311 .L37 1999
     
  • Legal Interviewing and Counseling: A Client-Centered Approach by David A. Binder
    KF311 .B5 1977
     

  • Legal Interviewing and Counseling in a Nutshell by Thomas L. Shaffer
    KF311 .S53 2005
     
  • Patterns & Practices: Measures of Law Firm Hiring,
    Leverage, and Billable Hours  by NALP
    Car. Serv. KF301 .P38 2006
  • Problems and cases in interviewing, counseling, and negotiation BY Melissa L. Nelken ... [et al.]. KF311 .N45 1986
  • Psychology for Lawyers: Understanding the Human Factors in Negotiation, Litigation, and
    Decision Making by Jennifer K. Robbennolt
    K346 .R63 2012
  • The Six-Minute Marathon: A Guide to Life as a Lawyer by Ed. Andrew Hartman
    KF300 .H37 2011
     

  • So You Want to Be a Lawyer: A Practical Guide to
    Law as a Career
    ​KF285 .S6     1998
     
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    ​    The Successful Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice by Gerald A. Riskin​
    KF300 .R57 2005
     
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    Transactional Lawyering Skills: Client Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation by Richard K. Neumann
    KF300 .N48 2013
     
  • The Young Litigator: Tips On Rainmaking, Writing and Trial Practice
    KF297 .Y68 2011 
  • Your First Year as a Lawyer Revealed: Secrets, Opportunities, and Success! by Ursula Furi-Perry
    KF297 .F873 2010

Career Success

  • 50 Lessons for Lawyers: Earn More, Stress Less, Be Awesome by Nora Riva Bergman
    KF297 B.47 2016

 

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    Accelerating Lawyer Success: How to Make Partner, Stay Healthy, and Flourish in a Law Firm by Lori Berman
    KF297 .B48 2015

 

 


  • America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree: And How to Make the Most of Any Job, No Matter Where It Is! by Kimm Alayne Walton
    Car. Serv. KF297 .W35 1999
     

  • The Associate as Rainmaker: Building Your Business Brain by David King Keller
    KF316.5 .K45 2011
     
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    Biglaw: How to Survive the First Two Years of Practice in a Mega-firm, or, the Art of Doc Review by Sarah Powell
    KF300 .P69 2013
     
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     Building Your Ladder: An Associate's Guide to Success Beyond Partnership by Marian Lee
    KF300 .L44 2013
     

  • The Busy Lawyer's Guide to Success: Essential Tips to Power Your Practice by Reid Trautz
    Car. Serv. KF315 .T72 2009
     
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    Checklists for Lawyers by Daniel J. Siegel
    KF300 .S53 2014
     
  • Client science : advice for lawyers on counseling clients through bad news and other legal realities by Marjorie Corman Aaron.
    KF311 .A92 2012

 

  •    Essential Qualities of the Professional Lawyer by Paul A. Haskins, ed.
    KF297 .E87 2013

 


  • Excellence in the Workplace: Legal & Life Skills in a Nutshell     by Kay Kavanagh
    KF297 .K28 2007
     
  • How Good Attorneys Become Great Rainmakers: A Breakthrough Referral Marketing Process by Mark Power
    KF316.5 .P68 2009
     
  • How Good Lawyers Survive Bad Times by Sharon Nelson
    KF315 .N45 2009
     

  • How to Capture and Keep Clients: Marketing Strategies for Lawyers Jennifer J. Rose, ed.
    KF316.5 H69 2005
     
  • How to Get and Keep Good Clients [electronic resource] by Jay G. Foonberg
    AV KF316.5[b].F66 2007
     
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    How to Start and Build a Law Practice by Jay G. Foonberg
    KF300 .F66 200

  •  How to Start a Law Practice by Alexander Y. Benikov​
    KF300 .B46 2017
     
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    The Lawyer's Guide to Finding Success in Any Job Market by Richard L. Hermann
    KF297 .H47 2009
     

  • The Lawyer's Guide to Building Your Practice with Referrals by Steven J. Shaer
    KF316.5 .S53 2012
     

  • The Legal Career Guide: From Law Student to Lawyer by Gary A. Munneke and Ellen Wayne
    KF297 .M86 2008
     

  • Making Partner: A Guide for Law Firm Associates by John Sapp
    Car. Serv. KF300.Z9 S27 2002
     

  • Managing Your Legal Career: Best Practices for Creating the Career You Want by Richard L. Hermann
    KF297 .H44 2010
     
  • Methodological approaches to the study of career [electronic resource] edited by Richard A. Young and William A. Borgen
    Greenwood HF5381 .M43 1990eb 
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    Rain Making: The Professional's Guide to Attracting New Clients by Ford Harding
    Car. Serv. HD8038.A1 H37 1994
     
  • Regulation of the legal profession by Stephen Gillers
    KF311 .G56 2009
     

  • Relationship-centered Lawyering: Social Science Theory for Transforming Legal Practice by Susan L. Brooks ed
    KF311 .R45 2010
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  • The Successful Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice by Gerald A. Riskin
    KF300 .R57 2005
  • Survival Guide for the New Lawyer [Electronic Resource]: What They Don't Teach You in Law School by Kevin M. Baum
    BloombergLaw KF297.838 2014
     
  • Think Again: Innovative Approaches to the Business of Law by Jeffrey L. Nischwitz
    KF318 .N57 2007
     

  • Through the Client's Eyes: New Approaches to Get Clients to Hire You Again and Again by Henry W. Ewalt
    KF311 .E63 2008
     
  • The Ultimate Guide to Your Legal Career: What Every Young Lawyer Must Know to Avoid the Mistakes and Maximize the Value of a Career in the Law by K. Charles Cannon
    KF297 .C33 2007
     

  • What Law School Doesn't Teach You - But You Really Need to Know: Expert Tips and Strategies for Making Your Law Career a Huge Success by Kimm Alayne Walton
    Car. Serv. KF297 .W33 2000     
     
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  • The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide by Thane Josef Messinger
    Car. Serv. KF297.Z9 M45 2000

       

Alternative Views of the Profession


  •  American Legal Profession in Crisis: Resistance and Responses to Change by James E. Moliterno
    KF300. M648 2013
     
  • Avoiding Extinction: Re-imagining Legal Services for the 21st Century by Mitchell Kowalski
    KF315 .K69 2012
     
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    Cheaper by the Hour: Temporary Lawyers and the Deprofessionalization of the Law by Robert A. Brooks
    KF299. T46 B76 2011

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    The E-Myth Attorney: Why Most Legal Practices Don't Work and What to Do  About It by Michael E. Gerber
    KF300 .C47 2010
  • Later-in-life Lawyers : Tips for the Non-traditional Law Student by Charles Cooper
    KF287 .C66 2012
     

  • Limited Scope Legal Services: Unbundling and the Self-Help Client by Stephanie L. Kimbro  
    KF300 .K59 2012
  • Negotiating Justice : Progressive Lawyering, Low-income Clients, and the Quest for Social Change by Corey Shdaimah
    KF311 .S52 2009
     
  • Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future by Richard Susskind
    K120 .S87 2013

  • Virtual Law Practice: How to Deliver Legal Services Online by Stephanie L. KImbro
    KF320.A9 K56 2010

 

 

 

Working with Other Lawyers

  • The Lawyer's Guide to Mentoring by Ida Abbott
    Car. Serv. KF276.5 .A92 2000
  • The Lawyer's Guide to Professional Coaching: Leadership, Mentoring and Effectiveness by Andrew Elowitt
    KF276.5 .E56 2012
  • Working with a Mentor: 50 Practical Suggestions for Success by Ida O. Abbott
    Car. Serv.