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- Publisher: Longtail Publishing Limited; Revised edition edition (30 Sep 2011)
- ISBN-10: 0955218683
- ISBN-13: 978-0955218682
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,838,692 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Law School is all very well with its academic niceties and its carbolic
smoke balls but day-to-day life in a modern law firm is warfare. And that's if you get in the door...
smoke balls but day-to-day life in a modern law firm is warfare. And that's if you get in the door...
Elephant traps, office politics and even that scourge of the trainee - photocopying - are the often baffling rites of passage in a law firm.
There are arcane rules and ways of doing things and you need to grasp them fast if you are to survive.
This book is the distillation of years of experience from lawyers young and
old, provincial or City, secretaries, support staff and PSLs (know who or
what they are?).
Our guide takes you from your application for a training contract through your gestation as a trainee. Practical, painstaking and full of common sense, every aspect of your day-to-day life is covered from what to wear, billing and time-recording to dealing with those highly stressed partners who now control your long waking hours.
This book will make you better prepared for the culture shock so many trainees say they encounter when they enter their firm's portals for the first time. And that will mean a better chance of your flourishing in this challenging but highly rewarding environment. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Chapters include:
Applications for training contracts, interview techniques, dressing for the
job you want, 'pour the coffee, darling', how to manage common office situations, presenting your work, rainmaking and networking, sharing an
office, protection and survival, appraisal interviews, overseas seats and secondments.
Applications for training contracts, interview techniques, dressing for the
job you want, 'pour the coffee, darling', how to manage common office situations, presenting your work, rainmaking and networking, sharing an
office, protection and survival, appraisal interviews, overseas seats and secondments.
Who this book is for: Students (at school and university) considering a career in law
- Law firm work-placement students
- Postgraduate law students
- LPC students
- Trainees
- Trainee supervisors
- Professional support lawyers
- Law firm HR personnel
- Law firm graduate recruitment officers
- University law lecturers
- School and university careers advisers and officers
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a must read for any intending or current trainee. The book takes you right trough the training contract experience, from finding the right firm for you, to deciding whether to stay on post qualification.
Whatever stage you're at, there are plenty of hints and tips to boost your career plans. I found the suggested questions for interview particularly useful and the explanation to what a training contract actually earns and how to organise my finances very thorough and valuable.
The bets feature however are the "bits they don't teach you at law school" firm how to dress and who to network with to the politics of office teams sports and the elephant traps of office romances and supervisor crushes.
Some of the errors seemed obvious when reading and some of the tips not immediately applicable but it was scary how useful many came and how close to the truth many of the examples were.
Definitely a crucial secret weapon in the campaign for training!
Whatever stage you're at, there are plenty of hints and tips to boost your career plans. I found the suggested questions for interview particularly useful and the explanation to what a training contract actually earns and how to organise my finances very thorough and valuable.
The bets feature however are the "bits they don't teach you at law school" firm how to dress and who to network with to the politics of office teams sports and the elephant traps of office romances and supervisor crushes.
Some of the errors seemed obvious when reading and some of the tips not immediately applicable but it was scary how useful many came and how close to the truth many of the examples were.
Definitely a crucial secret weapon in the campaign for training!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is well structured and reads quite easily. A lot of the material in it you'll know (or should know) already. But, for that 10% you didn't know, it's worth a read.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When I first picked this up at the start of the LPC in my College library I was put off by the book's twee and patronising tone. For example: "Some lawyers are very idiosyncratic and however quirky they are you will simply have to accept many of their oddities: the compulsive shining of the shoes before a meeting with clients; the loud crunching of apples at precisely 11.30 and 3.30 every day...." (page 142)
However, once you've got over these occasionally unreadable passages, you'll see that much of the book contains useful common sense - the sort that you could probably do without, but that it would be just as well to be reminded of.
One of the key messages of the book is that law firms are like small villages where everything you do is remembered and nothing will ever be forgotten - so don't burn bridges; don't shout at support staff, and so on, because it'll only come back to haunt you. Were you going to do those things anyway? Well, probably not.
I bought it in the end, ahead of starting my training contract at a large City firm. The list of further reading at the back has some very good recommendations too.
The authors claim in the introduction: "We spoke to training and graduate recruitment managers and asked them what they wished trainees knew when they started in law firms; we asked partners what skills, knowledge and attributes they wanted to see in the best trainees. When we showed our book to newly qualified solicitors they told us, without fail, how useful it would have been if they had read it before they started their training contracts."
Can't hurt to read it, I'm sure.
However, once you've got over these occasionally unreadable passages, you'll see that much of the book contains useful common sense - the sort that you could probably do without, but that it would be just as well to be reminded of.
One of the key messages of the book is that law firms are like small villages where everything you do is remembered and nothing will ever be forgotten - so don't burn bridges; don't shout at support staff, and so on, because it'll only come back to haunt you. Were you going to do those things anyway? Well, probably not.
I bought it in the end, ahead of starting my training contract at a large City firm. The list of further reading at the back has some very good recommendations too.
The authors claim in the introduction: "We spoke to training and graduate recruitment managers and asked them what they wished trainees knew when they started in law firms; we asked partners what skills, knowledge and attributes they wanted to see in the best trainees. When we showed our book to newly qualified solicitors they told us, without fail, how useful it would have been if they had read it before they started their training contracts."
Can't hurt to read it, I'm sure.
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