James Harris Fierberg

A Civility-Based Model For New Lawyers (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding Your Moral Compass, Interpersonal Skills, and Ethical Inventory before Practicing Law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a must read for new law graduates before they start to take on the issues of their clients. It stresses the critical behavioral qualities that will help or hinder their ability to credibly undertake the client's issues, separate and apart from all of the psychological baggage that they have accumulated over the years. Hiring partners of firms will also find this book useful in helping their new hires to get off on the right foot as they undertake whatever form of mentoring provided. Finally, with the mastery of these interpersonal skills and an understanding of the issues discussed in this book, a rewarding career and personal contribution to a viable road for enhanced civility must follow.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Bar Association
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781641058315
• Artikelnr.: 69107524

Autorenporträt

By James Harris Fierberg

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments v
Foreword by Nicole Clarke vii
Foreword by Douglas Alan Bates xiii
Introduction xvii
Prologue xxiii 1
1. So You Want to Be a Lawyer? 1 2
2. A Good Reputation: The Most Valuable Asset You Don¿t Own 15
3. Active Listening 25
4. Your Community 37
5. Bias 47
6. Thou Shalt Not . . . 63
7. Humility and Ego 73
8. Are You Missing the Point? 81
9. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall 87
10. Lying by Another Name 93
11. Presentation and Best Practices 103
12. The Killer Bees 117
13. Confidentiality 125
14. Where Does the Arrogance Come From? 137
15. Finding Civility in This Strange New World 149
Appendix A 189
Appendix B 199
Index 203