Survivor’s Guide for Candidate Attorneys, The

Product Details:
Author(s):
Hansjee, B
Year Published:
2021
Edition
3rd Edition
Type:
Print | Soft Cover
Language:
English
About this publication
This book provides candidate attorneys with the practical information that they need when starting articles. The information in this guide bridges the gap between the university environment, where the emphasis is on theoretical knowledge, and the candidate attorney’s new working environment, where the emphasis is on the practical, hands-on application of this knowledge and learning fast! It covers the candidate attorney’s relationship with his or her principal, with counsel and clients, registering and ceding articles, issuing, serving and filing, the courts, how to prepare for applications and actions, being admitted as an attorney, ethics and etiquette.
Features and Benefits
A practical handbook intended for the new candidate attorney covering everything from working with principals, counsel and clients, to etiquette, actions and applications
Plain language approach
Content
Chapter 2: Getting through the doors: your first days in a law firm
Chapter 3: What will you be doing, Grasshopper?
Chapter 4: You and your principal 
Chapter 5: Registering and ceding articles
Chapter 6: You and your clients
Chapter 7: You and counsel
Chapter 8: Issuing, serving and filing
Chapter 9: Applications and actions, practically speaking 
Chapter 10: Indexing and paginating demystified
Chapter 11: The courts: what to do, where to go, and to whom you should speak 
Chapter 12: After judgment
Chapter 13: Ethics, etiquette and administrative issues
Chapter 14: Being admitted as an attorney 
Chapter 15: Checklists 
 
Interest / Benefit to
Third and final year LLB students
Candidate attorneys
Schools of Legal Practice
Universities
Law societies
Law firms
Law libraries