LCS has added new material to the Resource Library available to students and alumni for checkout or viewing in the Law Career Services office. Some of the new/updated material includes:
- From Lemons to Lemonade in the New Legal Job Market by Richard L. Hermann
This book offers advice on how to position yourself to find a good job, how to build a sastifying legal career and how to cope with --and make lemonade from--all the other lemons in your search for work. Lawyer/Legal career counselor Richard Hermann gives 21 strategies for entry level attorneys to compete effectively for jobs, even against more experienced attorneys. (Available for checkout).
- The Happy Lawyer Handbook by Mitchell Nathanson
Written for the current law student,
The Happy Lawyer Handbook provides insight into those practicalities of law practice that are perhaps not contemplated while in law school but which will very likely have an overwhelming effect on the entirety of a budding attorney's career. It is intended to encourage students to become more engaged in their own professional future...[so] they will ultimately achieve the immense personal and professional fulfillment that the practice of law can offer, but does not guarantee. (Available for checkout).
- The New What Can You Do With a Law Degree by Dr. Larry Richard and Tanya Hanson
In this new, 6th edition of a law career classic, lawyers are introduced to a unique, five-part model for career satisfaction. The five-part model developed by Larry Richard JD/Ph.D. will help identify your career identity so that you can find lifelong satisfaction in the traditional practice of law or through alternative work arrangement or career choices. This book contains career exercises, practical career-finding techniques and a compendium of 800+ ways to use you law degree inside, outside or around the law. (Available for checkout).
Other new materials added/updated:
- Networking For Veterans: A Guidebook for a Successful Military Transition into the Civilian Workforce by Michael Faulkner, Andrea Nierenberg & Michael Abrams
- Choosing Small, Choosing Smart: Job Search Strategies for Lawyers in the Small Firm Market (3rd Edition) by Donna Gerson
- Innovative Mentoring for Lawyers and Law Students by Matthew Christiano
