Every entrepreneurial lawyer should read Traction by Gino Wickman. This is a fantastic book that gives an easy to follow step by step roadmap to successfully running a business. Want to read more reviews of this book or buy it? Check out the links below: Contributor: Emily LaRusch from BackOfficeBetties.com
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MacCarthy on Cross-Examination is an absolute must read for any attorney who handles evidentiary hearings or trials. This book will change the way you approach trials. I practice criminal defense. I see a lot of not guilty verdicts where the defense won, not because of the defense attorney, but despite the defense attorney.
The author's contemporaneous access to both the plaintiffs and Jan Schlitchman (their attorney) is unparalleled and is what allowed the author to share factual details, strategic concerns, and the emotional burdens that the plaintiffs and their counsel bore during such a lengthy lawsuit. Want to read more reviews of this book or buy it?
Inside, brilliant attorney Louis Nizer recounts his role in helping shape some of the most classic trademark, copyright and defamation cases in U.S. history. He manages to describe complicated matters in a way that is more thrilling than the most far-fetched of novels, while also introducing you to key components of and complicated maneuvers within the legal system in the United States. In addition to being a skilled legal professional, Nizer also manages to tap into the human condition in a way that all excellent aspiring lawyers can learn from. In recounting his cases successfully suing for slander, he illustrates before the jury and his readers alike just how terrible it is to impugn someone’s character.
Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology movement , has written an inspiring new book that you’ll find invaluable as you’re starting out in the stressful world of practicing law.
If you want to be a good lawyer, you have to understand what happens when justice doesn’t do its job and vigilante mobs take its place. This book tells the chilling, thrilling story of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan and the coverup of the lynching of Leo Frank, an educated Jewish man convicted of her murder mainly based on the testimony of one person. The lynching of Frank has been credited with both the revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the evolution of the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish Civil rights organization. This deeply researched book dives into the ins and outs of the proceedings that led up to Frank’s trial, how the lynch mob fomented and why the grim details were covered up for so long.
Law school teaches you how to perform the research work of being a lawyer, but that’s only half of the battle. Once you have graduated and landed a job, whether, in a large multinational firm or your private practice, you have got to learn how to build relationships.
Charles Darrow was one of the most prolific lawyers who ever lived. In 1984, he resigned from his lucrative job as chief counsel for a railway company to defend Eugene V. Debs, president of the nascent American Railway Union, pro-bono.
Packing quite a punch in its 135 pages, this book is as hilarious as it is informative. Inside, veteran lawyer Mark Hermann walks you through a day in the life of a lawyer, through the eyes of his fictional no-BS character, The Curmudgeon. By following along in the daily life of a private attorney, you’ll learn about research strategies, billing paperwork, dressing for success, and all about office relationships. There’s a particular chapter written by The Curmudgeon’s fictional secretary, who explains her role in depth, as well as vignettes from other characters you’ll encounter in your real working life. Each chapter is packed with memorable anecdotes, classic mistakes and helpful advice you’ll remember for years to come.
Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, Sam needs his friends James and Delia —and their time together in their school’s magic club—to see him through to graduation. But as soon as senior year starts, little cracks in their group begin to show. Sam may or may not be in love with James.
Set in a richly imagined world inspired by whispered tales of voodoo and folk magic, the Kingdom of Souls trilogy has been optioned for film by Michael B. Jordan and his Warner Bros. production company, Outlier Society. Buy Reaper of Souls now! 3. The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala.
Spellhacker by M.K. England. In Kyrkarta, magic—known as maz—was once a freely available natural resource. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that’s tightly controlled—and, of course, outrageously expensive.
Halcyon has charged with a heinous crime, and though her life is spared, she is sentenced to 15 years.
Fortunately, Kate has a secret edge: She is a wilder, born with forbidden magic that allows her to influence the minds of animals.
Set Fire to the Gods by Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons. Ash is descended from a long line of gladiators, and she knows the brutal nature of war firsthand. But after her mother dies in an arena, she vows to avenge her by overthrowing her fire god, whose temper has stripped her country of its resources.
Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas—marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona.
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An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. Atlanta newlyweds Roy and Celestial are ready to take on the world, but when Roy is convicted of a crime he did not commit, their union is jolted. What I admired most was Jones’s focus on the intimate details of what injustice does to people who love each other.
In 1984, 22-year-old North Carolina college student Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint. In a lineup and later in court, she identified Ronald Cotton as her assailant, and he was convicted. But she picked the wrong man; after 11 years behind bars, Cotton took a DNA test that proved his innocence.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. In 1815, sailor Edmond Dantès is about to marry his love when three friends falsely accuse him of treason. He is imprisoned for more than a decade and when he escapes exacts all kinds of spectacular revenge.
Stevenson is now one of America’s leading voices on poverty, inequality and racial injustice, but in the early 1980s, he was a law student with no vision for his future.
All of Howard’s most notable characters are represented here: Kull, the Atlantean who became King of Valusia, the Puritan avenger Solomon Kane, and of course, Conan the Cimmerian.
“The Shadow Kingdom” is Howard’s first tale of Kull, an Atlantean exile who became king of Valusia thousands of years before The Hyborian Age.
Yara came not often from his tower of magic, and always to work evil on some man or nation. The king of Zamora feared him more than he feared death, and kept himself drunk all the time because that fear was more than he could endure sober. Yara was very old—centuries old, men said, and added that he would live for ever because of the magic of his gem, which men called the Heart of the Elephant, for no better reason than they named his hold the Elephant’s Tower.
The heroes of “The Gods of Bal-Sagoth” are two renegades: Irishman Turlogh O’Brien, outlawed from his clan, and the Saxon Athelstane, who has thrown in with a group of Norse Vikings. The two have a history together, but they meet again when the Vikings attack a ship on which Turlogh is a passenger. The Saxon recognizes Turlogh in the stormy sea battle and takes him alive. Shortly thereafter the Vikings’ ship is blown off course and destroyed by a tempest. Athelstane is knocked unconscious, but Turlogh manages to save him. The two are the only survivors, and they wash up on a mysterious island (a classic sword and sorcery set-up!).
The Valley of the Worm. “The Valley of the Worm” illustration by Armand Cabrera. “I will tell you of Niord and the Worm. You have heard the tale in many guises wherein the hero was named Tyr, or Perseus, or Siegfried, or Beowulf, or Saint George.
Solomon Kane discovers a wounded girl in the woods. Before dying, the girl informs Kane she was ravished and stabbed by Le Loup, the vile leader of a gang of bandits. Kane vows that Le Loup and all his men will die for this deed, and wastes no time in making good on his promise.
Yag-Kosha explains to the Cimmerian that he is a captive of the wizard Yara, who has tortured him for three centuries. “The Tower of the Elephant” is the first Conan story Howard wrote after completing his essay “The Hyborian Age,” which detailed the history of the peoples of Conan’s world.
John Morgan (author) has built the largest personal injury law firm in the country over the past 25 years. In this book, he explains how he did it and why his firm will continue to succeed. An inspirational and aspirational story with much good advice for all lawyers building a firm.
For lawyers who own their own law firm or hope to do so in the future. John Fisher creates a manual of how his office is set up and why it is set up that way.
This book is an amazing history of the events leading up to the Brown decision. It really shows the bravery and brilliance of the lawyers involved. You get the full details of the families, plaintiffs, lawyers, and court system that lead to this decision.
A comprehensive and entertaining guide to the leading marketing strategies for attorneys. It focuses on practical solutions for increasing exposure, driving traffic, and generating leads that turn into profitable cases.
Linda ( the author) is one of the few women to reach the summit of the legal profession. She has represented the world’s foremost companies in “bet-the-company” cases where everything is at stake.
(Lawyers in private practice are business people with letters behind their names.) Dr. Dweck opens your eyes to having a growth mindset that is so critical to your success as a lawyer, let alone as a business person.