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Career Planning

National Association of Legal Placement (NALP)
Preeminent leadership and expertise in legal career planning, recruitment and hiring, employment, and professional development worldwide.
 
ABA Career Counsel
The ABA's central source for online information on finding jobs and enhancing lawyers' careers

ABA Young Lawyers Division
The site of the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association includes a publication and other resources helpful to new lawyers.
 
EmplawyerNet
The preeminent job opportunity and career development site for the legal community. It provides invaluable recruitment tools to lawyers, law students, paralegals, employers and law schools.

MarketingMarketing

InfoGuru Marketing: Leveraging What You Know to Attract All the Clients You Can Handle. Robert Middleton (2001) 

Diversity & Equity in the legal fieldWomen Lawyers, Diversity, and Equity

National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL)
This national voluntary legal professional organization devoted to the interests of women lawyers and their families. Founded in 1899, the Association has historically served as an educational forum and an active voice for the concerns of women in the legal profession and women worldwide.
 
Multicultural Women Attorney’s Network MWAN
A network which focuses on the dual challenges of being both a woman and a minority in the legal profession. This year, the Commission on Women is staffing the MWAN.
 
Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession
The ABA Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession is a diverse group of committed lawyers that, through its work and programs, is the catalyst for creating leadership and economic opportunities for racially and ethnically diverse lawyers within the ABA and the legal profession. We provide a voice to surface and tackle issues of discrimination, racism and bigotry, and to inspire the ABA and the profession to value differences, to be sensitive to prejudice, and to reflect the society they serve.
 
Minority Corporate Counsel Association
Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) was founded in 1997 to advocate for the expanded hiring, retention, and promotion of minority attorneys in corporate law departments and the law firms that serve them. MCCA accomplishes its mission through the collection and dissemination of information about diversity in the legal profession
 
American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession
The Commission on Women in the Profession, comprised of twelve members appointed by the ABA President, was created in 1987 to assess the status of women in the legal profession and to identify barriers to advancement. The Commission seeks to secure the full and equal participation of women in the ABA, the legal profession, and the justice system
 
National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations
The goals of the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations are:
• To promote and assist the growth of local and statewide women’s bar associations and women’s bar sections of local and statewide bar associations;
• To serve as a vehicle for the exchange and dissemination of information and ideas among women’s bar associations and women’s bar sections of local and statewide bar associations;
• To promote and protect the interest of women attorneys in achieving full participation in all the rights, privileges, and benefits of the legal profession; and
• To promote the advancement of women in society and in the administration of justice.

BooksBOOKS

CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSITION

Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas!Why Lawyers Should Eat Bananas:
Inspirational Ideas for Lawyers Wanting More Out of Life.

by Simon Tupman
 
First Steps for Disillusioned Lawyers (article)
 
What Can You Do With a Law Degree?: A Lawyer's Guide to Career Alternatives Inside, Outside & Around the Law , by Deborah Arron. Paperback, Niche Press, 4th Ed. 1999.
 
Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession, by Deborah Arron. Paperback, Ten Speed Press, 1989.
 
The Lawyer's Career Change Handbook: More Than 300 Things You Can Do With a Law Degree, Updated and Revised, Hindi Greenberg
 
Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century, by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger.
 
Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
 
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, Richard Bolles

LEADERSHIP

Book - First Break all the RulesLEADERSHIP

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
ISBN: 0684852861

 

Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
ISBN: 1591391849 
 
Seven Secrets of Successful Women: Success Strategies of the Women Who Have Made It - And How You Can Follow Their Lead
Donna Brooks and Lynn Brooks
ISBN: 0071342648
 
The 4-Dimensional Manager: Disc Strategies for Managing Different People in the Best Ways (An Inscape Guide)
Julie Straw
ISBN: 157675135X
 
The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner
ISBN: 0787968331
 
Principle Centered Leadership
by Stephen R. Covey
ISBN: 0671792806
 
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
by Patrick M. Lencioni
ISBN: 0787960756
 
Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life
by Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner
ISBN: 1576752445
 

MARKETING

Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants C.J. Hayden
 
Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity  Stacey Hall, Jan Brogniez
 

WORK/LIFE BALANCE

Work to Live: The Guide to Getting a Life
Joe Robinson
ISBN: 0399528504
 
Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More
John D. Drake
ISBN: 1576751163
 
Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America
John DeGraff
ISBN: 1576752453
 
The Man Who Mistook His Job for a Life : A Chronic Overachiever Finds the Way Home
Jonathon Lazear
ISBN: 0609608460

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