A new job is scary for anyone. A new job as an attorney is scary times two: the challenges are both substantive (as in actually knowing the law), as well as procedural (as in knowing how to act like an attorney). In this professional transition, many new attorneys fall by the wayside. This book is a guide to keep the new attorney on track. It includes advice for the new law firm associate, written by a Yale Law School graduate who made partner in a national law firm. Written in a first- and second-person tense and filled with no-nonsense guidance from someone actually in the mentorship role in a real-world law firm. 
This is the first book in a Jagged Rocks of Wisdom series to help the new attorney. The second book, Jagged Rocks of Wisdom-The Memo: Mastering the Legal Memorandum, focuses on the many challenges of one of the major task for a new attorney - the law memo - for the highly demanding world of partners and clients. A third book, Jagged Rocks of Wisdom -Negotiation, is expected in 2011.

Jagged Rocks of Wisdom: Professional Advice for the New Attorney

Business & Money

Lund, Morten

Job Hunting & Careers

The Fine Print Press, Ltd.

This book focuses on one of the most complex aspects of professional work for a new attorney: researching, drafting, and refining the crucially important legal memorandum. It is difficult to convey to a non-lawyer just how stressful the world of the new law associate is-the nearest comparison is to that of the medical resident-and much of the reason for that stress is the legal memorandum, upon which a client's fate can rest (along with the associate's). 
This book breaks the process of the legal memorandum into "21 Rules." By design these rules are conflicting and even internally inconsistent-just as with the practice of law itself (and one of Lund's first points about legal memoranda). In this, the only book available to the new attorney on the proper approach to legal memoranda, the mysteries are revealed. The process and survival will be no less arduous, but with this book the journey will not be nearly as treacherous.

Jagged Rocks of Wisdom - The Memo: Mastering the Legal Memorandum

Morten Lund

Legal Education

The primary goal of most law students is to get a job upon graduation. While law school teaches many things, how to get a law job is not one of them. Thousands of law students thus graduate each year without a job, without any prospects, and without the faintest idea how to land their first job with a law firm. In law school, however, the competition for top jobs is intense - and the special needs of law firm recruiters are unknown to law students. This book is an insider's look at the secrets of landing a dream law firm job.

The Insider's Guide to Getting a Big Firm Job: What Every Law Student Should Know About Interviewing

Erika Finn

Jessica Olmon

There are numerous prelaw books. Some are written by former students; a few are written by professors. This book is written, pseudonymously, by a 20-year veteran law professor and dean with behind-the-scenes knowledge of admissions.Law School Undercover offers students the straight truth they will get nowhere else—not in books and not even in direct conversations with law professors and deans. How? Because this is written pseudonymously, after Professor “X” realized his advice to his own daughter departed radically from his advice to students. This book is his apology. All law students will benefit from his inside, “underground” advice. Law School Undercover covers all aspects of law school, from selecting the right law school to admissions to first year to law review, moot court, and though graduation and jobs. Professor “X” reveals tricks-of-the-trade in admissions, based on years of experience in making these decisions; he discusses the best approaches to classes, exams, and law school activities; he discusses a rare third method for gaining acceptance to law review; and he lays out career options as no one else has.

Law School Undercover: A Veteran Law Professor Tells the Truth About Admissions, Classes, Cases, Exams, Law Review, Jobs, and More

Professor X

Law schools are, by their nature, traditional in attitude and in structure. Most books about law school take the same approach: they do not address the unique needs of the significant nontraditional segment of their student body. Other law school books focus on largely irrelevant factors such as rankings and employment in “prestigious” law firms. In short, even though a significant percentage of law students are nontraditional, there is little accurate, relevant material to help nontraditional students navigate the admissions process and ultimately succeed in law school. And that’s where this focused guide steps in. Its first edition is already established among nontraditional students. Its second edition will prove even more compelling.

Later-in-Life Lawyers (2nd Ed.): Tips for the Non-Traditional Law Student

Cooper, Charles

In this survival guide for the new attorney, in-depth advice on law office life, includes how to work with senior attorneys, legal research, memos, drafting, mistakes, grammar, email, workload, timesheets, reviews, teamwork, deportment, attitude, perspective, working with clients (and dissatisfied clients), working with office staff, using office tools, and, well, not just surviving but thriving in a new career. This book is written for all law graduates, for any law office: a firm―large, medium, or small―agency, corporation, or the military.

The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide

Messinger, Thane

For a law student, numerous and massive assignments loom from the very first day—with no let-up until final exams—and with zero feedback until those finals. Law students wonder where to begin, how to begin, and what to do each day. Law School Fast Track is unique in its format: short, fast, inexpensive, and easy-to-read. It is written to help law students starting on day one with one thousand pages of assigned cases. Its immediate suggestions, examples, and tips are invaluable—worth far more than its modest price. Law School Fast Track is also unique in that it focuses simply on the first week of law school—emphasizing the importance of establishing and maintaining good habits. Most habits in law school are formed before and during the first week. For example, during the first week a student will decide where to study, how long to study, how to brief a law case, what to do with class notes, how to outline, and when to start outlining, among many other demands. Law School Fast Track is a concise, inexpensive, and easy-to-read guide written in an approachable, peer tone. In focusing on the first week of law school, this book emphasizes the importance of establishing and maintaining good habits, thus giving the readers an early advantage.

Law School Fast Track: Essential Habits for Law School Success

Hibbard, Derrick

Transferring from one law school to another is like painting a delicate and complicated panorama, moving from one scene (one’s current law school) to a new one (the law school of one’s dreams). There are the technical elements, sure: certain methods and steps must be done at certain, specific times, and in certain ways. Failing to follow these can make colors sag and smear, destroying all that’s done to that point. In law school, that’s a lifetime of academic preparation. As with all works of art, of course, there’s an artistic element as well. So, it’s not enough to simply submit papers and files on time. What is done must be done so that it’s pleasing to those who see it: the admissions committee. Like all former novices, the authors made mistakes. These mistakes cost them time, money, and maybe even acceptance possibilities. The transfer process is full of quirks that a novice—any novice—will not see coming. With this book new students will be prepared, and will prepare their own works of art. After years of effort and sacrifice, don’t ruin a portrait with needless errors. Instead, students can create the masterpiece that will get them into the law school of their dreams.

The Art of the Law School Transfer: A Guide to Transferring Law Schools

Carrabis, Andrew

Haimovitch, Seth

The author is a real-life version of Amelia Earhart, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Isac Dineson, rolled into one. This is a first-person account of a woman Peace Corps volunteer-turned-medical researcher-turned-veterinarian-turned-“missionary.” Her mission was to save a small group of endangered great apes—the “bonobo”—from the grips of civil war in Zaire, the heart of Africa. She made this her mission, and after eight harrowing years the reader will be breathless with amazement in her struggles to get the endangered animals to safety. (This includes caring for a pregnant ape giving birth almost as the crate is being taken to the airport … and almost preventing her final escape.)
Includes art-book quality illustrations throughout, including 16-page full-color insert.

Grains of Golden Sand: Adventures in War-torn Africa

Science & Math

Messinger, Delfi

Biological Sciences

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Jagged Rocks of Wisdom: Professional Advice for the New Attorney

Jagged Rocks of Wisdom - The Memo: Mastering the Legal Memorandum

The Insider's Guide to Getting a Big Firm Job: What Every Law Student Should Know About Interviewing

Law School Undercover: A Veteran Law Professor Tells the Truth About Admissions, Classes, Cases, Exams, Law Review, Jobs, and More

Later-in-Life Lawyers (2nd Ed.): Tips for the Non-Traditional Law Student

The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide

Law School Fast Track: Essential Habits for Law School Success

The Art of the Law School Transfer: A Guide to Transferring Law Schools

Grains of Golden Sand: Adventures in War-torn Africa

Grains of Golden Sand: Adventures in War-torn Africa