Product Overview
A book about the business of law, The Legal Career: Knowing the Business, Thriving in Practice is indispensable reading for any prelaw student, law student, and lawyer. The Legal Career addresses key topics in the evolving legal profession and the business of law. It features chapters on law firms; the corporate client; the emergence of alternative legal service providers; legal technology; access to justice; employment and diversity in the legal profession; and legal education reform. Readers will learn from detailed, insightful interviews, including interviews with the general counsel of a major international company; the chief litigation officer of a Fortune100 company; a senior director of knowledge management at a Biglaw firm; a legal innovator who founded a pioneering legal process outsourcing company; and a legal tech startup CEO and co-founder. Interactive exercises and questions for reflection and discussion are included throughout the book.
