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In this survival guide for the new attorney, in-depth advice on law office life, includes how to work with senior attorneys, legal research, memos, drafting, mistakes, grammar, email, workload, timesheets, reviews, teamwork, deportment, attitude, perspective, working with clients (and dissatisfied clients), working with office staff, using office tools, and, well, not just surviving but thriving in a new career. This book is written for all law graduates, for any law office: a firm—large, medium, or small—agency, corporation, or the military.
The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book A Survival Guide (2nd Edition)
by Messinger, ThaneEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): The Fine Print Press, Ltd.
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Summary
Author Biography
Thane Messinger is an attorney, adjunct professor of business law, and author of The Young Lawyer's Jungle Book: A Survival Guide; Law School: Getting In, Getting Good, Getting the Gold; and Con Law: Avoiding...or Beating...the Scam of the Century (The Real Student's Guide to Law School and the Legal Profession).
Table of Contents
| Dedication | p. v |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xv |
| Recommended Reading | p. xix |
| Official Disclaimer | p. xxi |
| An Introduction to the Law | |
| Members of the Tribe | p. 2 |
| Dreamers | p. 3 |
| Members of the Tribe, Part Two | p. 4 |
| Autumn Attorneys | p. 5 |
| Metro Green, Metro Blues | p. 6 |
| Choosing Your Poison | p. 7 |
| Classes | p. 8 |
| Law Review | p. 9 |
| Hubris | p. 11 |
| Summer Camp | p. 12 |
| Interviews | p. 13 |
| Judicial Clerkships | p. 14 |
| Bar Admission | p. 14 |
| The Exam | p. 15 |
| In Awe of Law | |
| The Pregnant Year | p. 17 |
| Attitude | p. 18 |
| Cartography | p. 19 |
| A Continued Legal Education | p. 20 |
| The Wonder Year | p. 20 |
| Perks: The Upside | p. 22 |
| Perks: The Downside | p. 22 |
| Industrial Psychology | p. 22 |
| Your Private Life | p. 24 |
| Rendering Unto Caesar | p. 25 |
| Living With The Law | p. 25 |
| Your Place in the Firm | |
| First Things First | p. 29 |
| Law and Economics | p. 30 |
| The Apprentice's Lament | p. 31 |
| A Change of Perspective | p. 32 |
| Running From Fear | p. 33 |
| Tuning Into Personalities | p. 35 |
| The Chameleon | p. 40 |
| Respect | p. 42 |
| Dancing with Seniors | p. 42 |
| Battle of the Titans | p. 43 |
| Nuts! | p. 44 |
| Turbulent Waters | p. 46 |
| Turning Down Work | p. 48 |
| Finding Your Nietzsche | p. 48 |
| Specialization | p. 50 |
| Making Dartner | p. 52 |
| Getting the Work Done | |
| Getting Started | p. 53 |
| Research | p. 55 |
| The Castes of Law | p. 57 |
| Real Law | p. 58 |
| Memos | p. 59 |
| Citation | p. 60 |
| Reading | p. 62 |
| Learning the Law | p. 62 |
| The Know-It-All | p. 64 |
| The Library | p. 65 |
| Document Reviews | p. 67 |
| Form-Filling | p. 67 |
| Perspectives | p. 69 |
| Instruction? | p. 70 |
| Deadlines | p. 72 |
| Hocus Focus | p. 72 |
| Perspectives II | p. 72 |
| Calling Dr. Rorschach | p. 73 |
| Making It So | p. 74 |
| Court Gestering | p. 74 |
| Drafting | p. 75 |
| Details in Drafting | p. 77 |
| Drafting In Detail | p. 78 |
| For Litigators | p. 80 |
| The Paper Chase | p. 81 |
| Forms | p. 81 |
| Your Work Product | p. 82 |
| In Praise of All that is Boring | p. 82 |
| Mistakes | p. 84 |
| The Other Hand | p. 85 |
| Clemency | p. 87 |
| Cumulation | p. 88 |
| Putting It All Together | p. 88 |
| A Final, Editorial Note | p. 89 |
| Details, Details | |
| Grammar and Friends | p. 91 |
| Email Etiquette | p. 93 |
| The Opposite Problem | p. 94 |
| Math and Foes | p. 98 |
| It's A Bird! It's A Plane!! It's Superlawyer!!! | p. 99 |
| The Chain Gang | p. 100 |
| Lawyer Vagrancy | p. 101 |
| Pro Bono | p. 102 |
| Extracurricular Duties | p. 103 |
| Bookkeeping | p. 104 |
| Pacing on the Treadmill | p. 106 |
| Zzzz... | p. 108 |
| Integrated Project Management | p. 108 |
| Feed Back | |
| The Annual Review | p. 111 |
| The Occasional, Quasi-Review | p. 112 |
| Criticism | p. 112 |
| Friendly Advice | p. 113 |
| The Blind Leading | p. 113 |
| Let The Sunshine In | p. 114 |
| Fitting In | |
| Getting Along | p. 115 |
| Modesty | p. 115 |
| Rule No. 1,438 | p. 116 |
| Learning From War | p. 117 |
| Rule No. 1,438.1 | p. 117 |
| Brown-Nosing Done Right | p. 117 |
| Spending The Part | p. 118 |
| Committing to The Part | p. 119 |
| Moving to New Parts | p. 120 |
| Acting The Part | p. 120 |
| Smelling The Part | p. 121 |
| More Hygiene | p. 121 |
| Socializing The Part | p. 121 |
| Alcohol | p. 122 |
| Other Vices | p. 122 |
| Being The Good Sport | p. 122 |
| Dressing The Part | p. 122 |
| Dressing Ally | p. 126 |
| Shaving The Part | p. 127 |
| Archiving The Part | p. 128 |
| Addressing The Part | p. 128 |
| "Esq." | p. 128 |
| "Dr." | p. 129 |
| Habitating The Part | p. 130 |
| Clocking The Part | p. 131 |
| Weighing The Part | p. 131 |
| Dining The Part | p. 132 |
| Exercising Your Parts | p. 133 |
| Leaving For Parts Unknown | p. 133 |
| Appreciating New Parts | p. 134 |
| Assimilating Into The Part | p. 134 |
| More Sex | p. 138 |
| You Are Woman. What's That Roar? | p. 139 |
| Nurturing The Next Generation | p. 141 |
| Feline Fighting | p. 142 |
| Playing With Fire | p. 142 |
| Playing With Clients | p. 143 |
| Playing With Others | p. 143 |
| Cro-Magnon Man | p. 143 |
| Homo Erectus | p. 144 |
| Support | p. 145 |
| The Numbers Game | p. 145 |
| Dancing with Lawyers | p. 147 |
| The Slow Dance | p. 147 |
| The Tango | p. 148 |
| The Two-Step | p. 149 |
| The Lambada | p. 149 |
| The Law | p. 150 |
| The Letter Continues: | p. 150 |
| A Dish Best Served Cold | p. 151 |
| Recasting The Lesson | p. 152 |
| Defensive Practice | p. 153 |
| Professional Responsibility ...One More Time | p. 153 |
| Ethics | p. 155 |
| Dancing With Clients | |
| Respect | p. 157 |
| Reverence | p. 158 |
| Reverence II | p. 158 |
| Reverence III | p. 159 |
| Relating To Clients | p. 159 |
| Listening To Clients | p. 160 |
| The Ungrateful Client | p. 162 |
| Thinking Like a Client | p. 162 |
| Reporting To Clients | p. 163 |
| Writing For Clients | p. 164 |
| Confidence | p. 165 |
| Time | p. 166 |
| The Moth | p. 166 |
| Your First Conference | p. 167 |
| "Suggestions" | p. 169 |
| Nerves | p. 170 |
| Pride Goeth | p. 172 |
| Ceremony | p. 172 |
| Scripting | p. 173 |
| Money | p. 173 |
| Dancing with Dissatisfied Clients | p. 173 |
| Who's On First? | p. 174 |
| The Horizon | p. 174 |
| Maintaining The Dignity | p. 175 |
| Dancing with Witnesses | p. 176 |
| Confidentiality | p. 177 |
| The Rain Dance | p. 178 |
| Rainmaking: The Secret | p. 180 |
| Rainmaking For Outcasts | p. 182 |
| Secretaries, Staff, and Other Funny Creatures | |
| The Office Ropes | p. 184 |
| Two-Way Streets | p. 184 |
| Personal Stuff | p. 185 |
| Adonis at Work | p. 186 |
| Gifts | p. 186 |
| Power Games | p. 187 |
| Squeaky Wheels | p. 187 |
| Pro Forma Critiques | p. 188 |
| Your Agent | p. 188 |
| Dictaphones--Part I | p. 188 |
| Dictaphones--Part II | p. 189 |
| While We're On Rapport... | p. 189 |
| Secretary As Hounddog | p. 190 |
| Going Home Again | p. 190 |
| Documents | p. 190 |
| Documents--The Sequel | p. 191 |
| Documents--Revenge Of The Rat | p. 191 |
| Documents--The Battle | p. 191 |
| Documents--The Final Chapter | p. 191 |
| Dating Al Carbon | p. 192 |
| The Office Manager | p. 192 |
| Cause For Pause | p. 193 |
| Confidentiality | p. 193 |
| Other Funny Creatures | p. 193 |
| Veering Offtrack | |
| What Can Go Wrong? | p. 196 |
| Firmness Through Anorexia | p. 197 |
| Going AWOL | p. 198 |
| Looking Afar | p. 199 |
| Looking Afar -- The Voyage Home | p. 200 |
| Legal Recruiters | p. 200 |
| In-House | p. 200 |
| Going Solo | p. 201 |
| A Dangerous Mission, Hans | p. 202 |
| What If You Suck? | p. 203 |
| Burning Bridges | p. 204 |
| ...On Being a Lawyer | |
| The Old Lawyer | p. 205 |
| The Bad Lawyer | p. 208 |
| The Brotherhood | p. 209 |
| The Laity | p. 209 |
| You | p. 210 |
| The Expensive lawyer | p. 211 |
| The Good Lawyer | p. 212 |
| The Costly Lawyer | p. 214 |
| The Misunderstood Lawyer | p. 218 |
| The Funny Lawyer | p. 219 |
| The Radical | p. 219 |
| The Lawyer Savant | p. 220 |
| The Chasm | p. 220 |
| The Attorney | p. 220 |
| The Forest | |
| The Legal Grail | p. 221 |
| Making Partner--Part II | p. 221 |
| The Lean And Hungry Look | p. 222 |
| When You're King | p. 222 |
| The Meaning of Life | p. 224 |
| Three Reasons to Care | p. 225 |
| Fin | p. 225 |
| Law Trek: The Next Generation | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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