Best friends at the bar : the new balance for today's woman lawyer / Susan Smith Blakely.
2012
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Author
Title
Best friends at the bar : the new balance for today's woman lawyer / Susan Smith Blakely.
Published
New York : Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Call Number
KF299.W6 B588 2012
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781454822493 (pbk. : alk. paper)
145482249X (pbk. : alk. paper)
145482249X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xviii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)793973968
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Prologue
1
1.
You Really Need to Love What You Do
19
2.
You Really Need to Get Serious
25
3.
You Really Need to Be Who You Are
33
4.
You Really Need to Put Yourself First---At Least Part of the Time
49
5.
You Really Need to Gain Perspective
61
6.
You Really Need TIME---And All the Help You Can Get!
67
7.
You Really Need Your Friends
91
8.
You Really Need to Live Within Your Means to Keep Your Options Open
105
9.
You Really Need to Take Credit for What You Do
111
10.
You Really Need True Grit
121
11.
You Really Need to Be the Best Lawyer You Can Be
129
12.
You Really Need to Think About Career Transitions
135
Where We Are and How We Got Here
144
The Starting Point
148
Typical Transitions
149
The Law Firm Practice Model
149
From Law Firm to In-House Corporate Practice
157
Profile of Sally Blackmun
164
Profile of Amy Yeung
168
From Law Firm to Public Interest/Non-Profit Lawyer
173
Profile of Bonnie Brier
175
From Law Firm to Government Lawyer
181
Profile of Kathleen Tighe
188
From Law Firm to Solo Practice
191
Profile of Laura Oberbroeckling
196
From Traditional Law Firm to Non-Traditional Law Firm
201
Women-Owned Law Firm
201
Profile of Kathryn Smith Spencer
202
Virtual Law Firm
205
Profile of Stephanie Kimbro
206
From Law Firm to Law Firm Consultant
209
Profile of Karen Kaplowitz
210
From Law Firm to Academia
213
Profile of Deborah Burand
215
Profile of Markeisha Miner
220
From Law Firm to the Judiciary
224
Profile of Honorable Marianne Short
226
From Law Firm to Alternative Dispute Resolution
230
Profile of Victoria Pynchon
231
Epilogue: From a Queen of Reinvention
237