Build a legal career in the hottest 21st century practice areas! In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 1, Data Protection Practice: The Brave New Legal World, investigates a practice area that may be the hottest one going today and likely to be a centerpiece of business, personal, and legal concern for years to come. Talk to any law firm managing partner or corporate or government general counsel and you are likely to hear that s/he cannot find enough data protection attorneys. Every day the demand for lawyers who understand the legal implications of cybersecurity threats is surging in every employment sector. This booklet shows you how to surge with it and take advantage of this exciting career opportunity, Highlights include: • Six Key Features of Current Data Protection Practice • What Makes Data Protection Law So Hot? • The State of the Law • The Practice • Who Hires? “Mainstream” and JD-Advantage Jobs in Data Protection • What Does It Pay? • Breaking In • Finding Out About Data Protection Jobs before Everyone Else • Where to Go for More Information Cyber threats know no borders. The potential for misuse of sensitive personal information, corporate intelligence, and national security secrets is panicking businesses, governments, and other organizations worldwide, triggering legislative and regulatory action everywhere you look. Nations are scrambling to modernize their laws and regulations to cope with the new technologies that enable hacking before they are left even farther behind this growing law-technology gap. Technology know-how is a plus, but not mandatory because there are only a handful of attorneys with an in-depth understanding of the technological aspects of data security. A data protection attorney, most importantly, must be able to communicate effectively with people from all disciplines and backgrounds. Hermann focuses on what law students and lawyers need to know to break into this sizzling hot employment field.

Data Protection Practice: The Brave New Legal World (21st Century Legal Career Series)

Hermann, Richard L.

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Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century employment fields In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 2, Careers in Compliance: JDs Wanted, focuses on what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) calls one of the fastest growing occupations. The number of compliance officers nationwide has more than doubled in the last six years to around 300,000. A barrage of new laws, such as the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Act, and their implementing regulations (Dodd-Frank alone has spawned almost 400), heightened government enforcement, large fines, and other penalties have acted as a compliance wake-up call to affected companies and industries. New laws and more vigorous government enforcement have also upgraded the nature of the job. As part of compliance, companies now emphasize risk assessments, ethics, employee training, and developing paths for employees to report possible misconduct. A growing number of compliance officers come to the job armed with a law degree. This booklet shows you where these jobs are and how to take advantage of this exciting career opportunity. Highlights include: -What is Compliance ? -The Work -Organizing the Compliance Function -Who Hires? -JD-Advantage Compliance Jobs and Careers -What Does It Pay? -Breaking into Compliance -Follow Up While ever-present, compliance has become considerably more important and central to the activities of most organizations in the 21st century. America's 6,000 publicly-traded companies find that, since the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, it has become impossible to function without a compliance staff. There has even been a "trickle-over" effect to closely-held corporations and nonprofits including hospitals, academic institutions, museums, and foundations. Prior compliance experience is not always necessary, due to intense demand. The new compliance reality forces organizations to expand their searches beyond candidates with just compliance backgrounds to other disciplines, law being prominent among them. Hermann focuses on what law students and lawyers need to know to break into this hot field.

Careers in Compliance: JDs Wanted (21st Century Legal Career Series)

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Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century practice areas!In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 4, Energy Law: Fueling a Dynamic Legal Career, focuses on a powerhouse practice area, one that will be a central focus of legal concern for as far out as the eye can see. This booklet details how six factors, including energy independence and technological innovation, have transformed energy law from a niche practice confined to a narrow geographic area into a wide-ranging endeavor that has gone global. The energy law arena is a job-creating juggernaut and one that aspiring attorneys should carefully consider.Highlights include:How Do We Know That Energy Law is “Hot?” The Work Who Hires? JD Advantage Energy Jobs What Does It Pay? Future Prospects Breaking into Energy Law Finding Out About Jobs before Everyone Else Follow-Up 21st century energy practice is not confined to its traditional home among large law firms in Houston, Dallas, and Washington, DC. The “oil patch” has expanded far beyond Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Gulf of Mexico. Today, 20 states have a robust fossil fuel industry. In addition, renewables such as solar, wind, and biofuels are closing in on a nationwide presence.The dramatic emergence of cost-effective extraction technologies such as fracking and horizontal drilling, along with the rise of renewables, has vastly expanded the number of energy legal job opportunities. This is particularly true of some of the JD-Advantage jobs discussed in this booklet.Hermann focuses on what law students and lawyers need to know to break into this hot employment field.

Energy Law: Fueling a Dynamic Legal Career (21st Century Legal Career Series)

Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century practice areas! In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 5, “Soft” Intellectual Property Law: IP Opportunities for Non-STEM Attorneys, details why this is the best time in history to contemplate a legal career in intellectual property (IP) regardless of an attorney’s educational background aside from law school. Whether you combine your law degree with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) background, or come to law from a purely liberal arts orientation, this booklet reveals the exciting opportunities available to you in intellectual property. Highlights include: What Makes Soft IP Law So “Hot?”—The Emergence of Soft IP Who Hires: JD Advantage Soft IP Job Opportunities Breaking into Soft IP Law What Does It Pay? How to Get Advance Notice of Soft IP Job Opportunities Follow-Up IP has changed dramatically in the 21st century and now encompasses far more than patent law. Hermann traces the proliferation of legal positions for IP professionals who lack a STEM education, but have other skills, to 10 developments including: the 180-degree switch in the nature of corporate assets from 4:1 goods and tangibles to 4:1 IP and intangibles; the consequent emergence of Intellectual asset management as a niche practice; the exponential growth of technology commercialization and licensing; and the accelerating pace of technological innovation. The major soft IP practice areas offering JD Advantage opportunities are trademarks, copyrights, intellectual asset management, technology licensing and commercialization and to a lesser extent, IP rights enforcement. The surge in soft IP has generated more than 30 JD Advantage job titles. Hermann focuses on what law students and lawyers need to know to break into this hot employment field in which the number of soft-IP jobs for which non-STEM attorneys can compete is rapidly approaching equivalency with the number of patent-related jobs.

"Soft" Intellectual Property Law: IP Opportunities for Non-STEM Attorneys (21st Century Legal Career Series)

Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century employment arenas! In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 11 , Insurance Careers for Attorneys: Opportunity in Expected—and Unexpected—Places, shines a spotlight on a rich environment for law jobs. To say that insurance is booming is a decided understatement. The insurance industry is doing very well and continues to thrive regardless of the ups and downs of the global and national economies. A direct consequence of this is that both mainstream and JD Advantage insurance jobs for attorneys are proliferating. In fact, the demand for attorneys to fill these latter positions is high and becoming more intense, as employers discover that JDs who serve in these capacities bring both a strong skill set and dogged work ethic, as well as excellent judgment to their jobs. This is, in part, due to the aging of the population—in America, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers turn 65 every day and will continue to do so at this incredible rate until 2029! That kind of unprecedented demographic explosion puts a great deal of pressure on insurers. The number of claims skyrockets. More people go on disability. More people die. Insurance Careers for Attorneys details how to find the right employment opportunity in the vibrant world of insurance. Highlights include: • Why is Insurance Law Hot? • Who Hires? Insurance Companies • Who Hires? The Public Sector • Who Hires? Law Firms • Who Hires? Nonprofits • The Work: What Do Insurance Lawyers Do? • Selected JD Advantage Job Titles • Positioning Yourself for an Insurance Law Career • What Does It Pay? • Advance Notice of Insurance Law Opportunities Most mainstream legal jobs in insurance companies are in the corporate in-house counsel office. JD Advantage jobs can be found throughout insurance companies and occupy almost 50 job titles. Underwriting has become more infused with law, especially in areas such as professional liability and environmental liability. Consequently, there is an insurance industry trend in favor of hiring attorneys and training them to serve as underwriters in these law-infused sectors. And the Affordable Care Act (and whatever follows) imposes a host of new regulations and compliance requirements on insurers, which increases industry demand for legal services. Hermann covers all this and more as he lays out what law students and lawyers need to know to build a successful career in and around the insurance industry.

Insurance Careers for Attorneys: Opportunity in Expected—and Unexpected—Places (21st Century Legal Career Series)

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Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century employment arenas! In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 12 , JD Advantage Jobs in Corporations: Expanding the Legal Function, examines in detail the impressive range and growing diversity of JD Advantage jobs in corporations open to individuals with a law degree. As a rule, corporations do not hire new graduates for their in-house counsel offices. Instead, they favor lateral candidates with a few years of experience. What few law students realize is this should not deter them from including corporations in their job-search strategy. Since the late 1970s, U.S. companies have embarked on an expansion of their legal hiring to include thousands of attorneys who work in JD Advantage positions in corporate offices and roles other than their traditional, mainstream legal office(s). Volume 12 focuses on the corporate departments that hire a substantial number of law grads for JD Advantage positions including: Compliance, Due Diligence, Ethics, Risk Management , Technology Commercialization, Real Estate. Highlights include: • Why Are Corporate JD Advantage Jobs So Hot? • Selected JD Advantage Job Titles and Work Environments • A Look at JD Advantage-Heavy Industries • Positioning Yourself for a Corporate JD Advantage Job • What Do Corporate JD Advantage Jobs Pay? • Advance Notice of Corporate JD Advantage Opportunities • A Word About Nonprofit Corporations The demand for JD Advantage lawyers in U.S. corporations is escalating because of: Complexity. The world is not becoming simpler to understand and negotiate. Globalization. Interconnectedness across borders is the new normal. Technology. Innovation and its frequent consequence, “creative destruction,” are increasing. Turmoil. Uncertainty and unpredictability have rocked the corporate comfort zone. Track Record. Company executives have come to realize the attorneys they hire for these law-related jobs are smart, analytical, articulate, and hard workers. Hermann shows candidates where to look for JD Advantage jobs in corporations based on the author’s 30-plus years advising JDs who successfully transitioned from law school and mainstream law to JD Advantage positions.

JD Advantage Jobs in Corporations: Expanding the Legal Function (21st Century Legal Career Series)

Build a legal career in one of the hottest 21st century employment areas! In his 21st Century Legal Career Series, Richard L. Hermann researches, evaluates, and predicts where the employment opportunities are and will be for law graduates. Volume 14, T rains, Planes, and Automobiles: Reinventing Transportation Law, explores transportation technology over time (past, present, and future) and its impact on attorney and JD Advantage job opportunities. Transportation law is a big topic, a broad tent that Hermann details by breaking it down by modes of travel, anticipating where the opportunities and pitfalls lie for legal employment in each. We are poised on the cusp of the biggest revolution in transportation since the invention of the automobile in the late 19th century — self-driving car and truck technology. This revolution is going to affect everyone’s daily existence and a lot of attorneys’ livelihoods. Trains, Planes and Automobiles, demonstrates how one of the most important job-search and legal career strategies you can adopt is to understand as much as you can about the technology as well as the law. Those attorneys who do this and understand the “law-technology gap” are in the best position to both secure that first job and continue to rise through the professional ranks. Train, Planes and Automobiles is your guide to law jobs in: Motor Vehicles and Roadways (including Infrastructure Development); Aviation and Aerospace; Railroads; Maritime Law and Business. Highlights include: • A Brief History of Transportation Law • Transportation Law Practice Today…and Tomorrow • Why Is Transportation Law Hot? • JD Advantage Job Opportunities • Positioning Yourself for a Transportation Law Job • Compensation • Advance Notice of Transportation Legal Job Opportunities There is little question that driverless cars and trucks, drones and other unmanned aircraft, autonomous ships with minimal or no crews, “trenchless” pipeline technology, and other technological marvels transforming transportation and transportation law are the bow waves of the near future. Their rather sudden emergence has made them leap far ahead of the law’s ability to manage and regulate them. Today, few attorneys have any expertise whatsoever in the rules governing (and developing) any of these new, disruptive technologies. That means opportunity. Demand for this special expertise is destined to grow much faster than supply. Hermann leads you through this expansive employment field providing strategies and tactics to help you take advantage of on-going and emerging legal career opportunities.

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: Reinventing Transportation Law (21st Century Legal Career Series)

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